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30,000+ writers have taken the next step with us.

30,000+ writers have taken the next step with us.

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The Best Online Writing Workshops for Emerging and Established Authors

Blaise Allysen Kearsley, pictured with book covers or logos of publications that have featured their work.

Clock of The Heart: Manipulating Time in Memoir and Personal Essays: a Zoom Seminar with Blaise Allysen Kearsley on Saturday, November 7th, 2026

$99.00

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Dogs, Gods, Ghosts, and More: Writing the Non-Human Narrator, 3-week workshop with Elise LeSage.

Dogs, Gods, Ghosts, and More: Writing the Non-Human Narrator, a 3-Week Fiction Workshop (Zoom) with Elise LeSage Starts Saturday, November 7th, 2026

$280.00

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Collage to Poem: A Generative Poetry Workshop from Visual Assemblage with Nadia Bongo, over a collage portrait.

Collage to Poem: A Generative 5-Week Poetry Workshop from Visual Assemblage with Nadia Bongo (Zoom) Starts Sunday, November 8th, 2026

$395.00

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Erica Anzalone, pictured with book covers or logos of publications that have featured their work.

The Haunted Muse: Memory, Trauma, Desire, and the Art of Ghosts 4-Week Generative Zoom Class, Starts Sunday, November 8th, 2026.

$330.00

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