Free Creative Writing Programs

We teach the craft of writing in a way that is clear, practical, and inspiring.Explore our wide variety of courses for adults and teens, as well as our One-on-One options.(click on the book covers to find out more) Are you a beginner writer?

We teach the craft of writing in a way that is clear, practical, and inspiring.Explore our wide variety of courses for adults and teens, as well as our One-on-One options.(click on the book covers to find out more) Are you a beginner writer?

Our teachers have been in the trenches, working daily at the craft of writing. And they are equally adept at the fine art of teaching.

Meet Our Faculty The tools needed to write are quite simple—pen and paper, or electronic device.

Microsoft Word is the default tool for many writers, but a subscription to Office 365 costs £59.99/US$69.99/AU$89 per year for one user – pretty steep if you only need the word processing element.

If you’re a writer seeking to refine your skills, a master’s degree in creative writing may be a suitable choice.

Writing is a solo act, but it’s helpful, even necessary, to connect with fellow writers.

Here you will learn how to navigate the ins-and-outs of the publishing business and you’ll write (and refine) the most important selling tool for your book—the query letter.(A note: you can often find this book used for much less than the textbook price.)Burroway is both an author and a professor of creative writing, and in this information-packed book she leads writers through exercises meant to develop skills in fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction. When she’s not working with B2B marketers to tell their brand’s story, you can find her scribbling away on her latest novel, riding her bike to the brewpub, or sewing something fun.Writers tend to make a very big deal of their tools, whether those tools are delicate pens or ancient typewriters.But it’s useful to have advice and information within easy reach.We’ve put together all kinds of resources to guide your journey as a writer, including Gotham books.New classes are starting all the time, in NYC and Online.View All Courses View Start Dates Learn about classes Each Gotham class puts you in a community of writers, and we also offer ways to join the writing community beyond our classes.I hope that you'll see a dramatic improvement in the quality of your writing as you work through this course. Whether that takes the form of attending local history lectures or spending hours in the rabbit hole of Wikipedia (guilty!), most writers I know are constantly trying to expand their minds and their skills.feature self-study courses like “Storytelling Fundamentals: Character, Conflict, Context, Craft” with Daniel José Older, and “Fundamentals of Free Writing: Opening the Floodgates to Your Creative Genius” with Aubrey Gail Ferreira.