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Courses lasting 12 weeks

Courses lasting 12 weeks (20)

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

Start Date

Monday 17 Mar 2025

2 more start dates available

£395
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Novel Writing, Writing for Children

Writing YA

Spend three months in expert company, learning the key skills any YA writer requires.

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Improving

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12 weeks

Tutors

Penny Joelson

Start Date

Monday 17 Mar 2025

£695
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Non-fiction

Writing Creative Non-Fiction

Bring your non-fiction alive in this intensive twelve-week course with critically-acclaimed writers Helen Jukes and Marianne Brooker.

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Improving

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Online

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12 weeks

Tutors

Helen Jukes, Marianne Brooker

Start Date

Monday 31 Mar 2025

£795
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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 31 Mar 2025

£595
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Crime, Fiction Development

Writing Crime

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

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Improving

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Online

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12 weeks

Tutors

Claire McGowan

Start Date

Monday 07 Apr 2025

£695
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Crime, Fiction Development

Writing Darkness: Horror, Mystery and Suspense

Electrify your writing by mastering techniques from the darker side of fiction, delving deep into atmosphere, fear and dread in a twelve-week online course.

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Improving

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Online

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12 weeks

Tutors

Matt Wesolowski

Start Date

Monday 14 Apr 2025

£695
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Fiction Development, 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 17 Apr 2025

£850
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Fiction Development, Novel Writing

Edit and Submit Your Novel

Expert industry insight and all the technical tools you'll need to take your manuscript from first to final draft.

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Advanced

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Online

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12 weeks

Tutors

Rose Tomaszewska, Nelle Andrew

By Application

Start Date

Tuesday 22 Apr 2025

Application Deadline

Tuesday 11 Mar 2025

£1495
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