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Courses lasting 12 weeks

Courses lasting 12 weeks (23)

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Short Story

Short Stories II: Developing Your Craft

You’ve got to grips with the basics – now it’s time to make your short stories shine.

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Improving

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Online

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12 weeks

Tutors

Lucy Caldwell

Start Date

Thursday 09 Jan 2025

£995
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Fiction Development, Novel Writing

Kickstart Your Novel

Take your writing to the next level, and develop both the technical skill and the narrative momentum to really get stuck into your novel.

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Improving

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12 weeks

Tutors

Katherine Stansfield, Marcel Theroux

Start Date

Monday 13 Jan 2025

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£595
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Fiction Development, Novel Writing

Getting Started: Beginners' Fiction

Everything you need to call yourself a writer – discipline, craft skills and a great group of people to work with – in one online writing course experience.

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Starting out

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Online

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12 weeks

Tutors

Kirsty Logan, Penny Joelson

Start Date

Monday 13 Jan 2025

£395
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Fiction Development, Novel Writing

Getting Started: Beginners' Fiction (Daytime)

A twelve-week creative writing course for beginners. Playful, serious and fun, it asks what writing is and why we do it.

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Starting out

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London

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12 weeks

Tutors

Sue Gee

Start Date

Wednesday 15 Jan 2025

£1095
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Non-fiction

Memoir and Life Writing

How to write a life – let alone your own? Spend three months in expert company, asking and answering the questions that a memoirist needs to answer.

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Improving

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Online

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12 weeks

Tutors

Miranda Doyle

Start Date

Thursday 16 Jan 2025

£850
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Poetry

Writing Poems

A playful, supportive three-month poetry course for beginners and aspiring amateur poets, with two of the best practitioners and teachers in the country.

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Starting out

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Online

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12 weeks

Tutors

Richard Scott, Julia Copus

Start Date

Monday 20 Jan 2025

£595
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Non-fiction

Creative Non-Fiction

Do you have a true story to tell? Learn how to craft narrative non-fiction with award-winning author, Rebecca Giggs.

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Starting out

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London

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12 weeks

Tutors

Rebecca Giggs

Start Date

Tuesday 21 Jan 2025

£1095
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Fiction Development

Writing Fiction

This unique twelve-week course is about finding a way to write that is yours – whether you're starting out, starting again, or rethinking your approach to fiction writing.

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Improving

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London

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12 weeks

Tutors

Keith Ridgway

Start Date

Thursday 23 Jan 2025

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£1095
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