Online courses in creative writing
Part-time study in creative writing
Develop your creativity with an Oxford University short course or award programme.
Need an extra push to finish your novel, poem or play? Completely new to the world of creative writing? Want to improve your analytical reading skills? No matter where you are in your writing journey, or where you are in the world, there is a part-time course to suit you.
Short online courses
Our short online courses in creative writing include live-time weekly classes, day and weekend schools and flexible online courses.
Credit earned from our short online courses is transferable towards our Certificate of Higher Education - a part-time undergraduate course in which you study a main subject discipline but also undertake study in other academic subjects.
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Diploma in Creative Writing
Our two-year, part-time Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing allows you to strengthen your ability in four major areas of literary activity — prose, poetry, drama and analytical reading — as well as the chance to specialise in the medium of your choice. You can now opt to take this course mostly online.
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Upcoming courses
Advanced creative writing (online).
- Wed 08 Jan 2025 – 21 Mar 2025
Trollope, Eliot, Dickens and Hardy: Reading Victorian Fiction (Online)
Writing lives (online), contemporary british fiction (online).
- Mon 13 Jan 2025 – 28 Mar 2025
Critical Reading (Online)
Literature, creative writing and film studies
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Explore Creative Writing courses that teach skills in storytelling, character development, and narrative techniques. Prepare for careers in fiction writing, screenwriting, and publishing.
A series of authentic writing assignments designed to target the skills you need to develop. Writing techniques, literary devices, and specialized skills to enhance your writing. Opportunities for publishing, podcasts, and how to create a professional creative writing portfolio.
Stanford Continuing Studies' online creative writing courses make it easy to take courses taught by instructors from Stanford’s writing community. Thanks to the flexibility of the online format, these courses can be taken anywhere, anytime—a plus for students who lead busy lives or for whom regular travel to the Stanford campus is not ...
Our short courses in creative writing include in person and online live-time weekly classes, day and weekend schools and flexible online courses. Courses cover all genres: fiction, poetry, memoir, creative nonfiction, drama, writing for young adults and critical reading.
Our short online courses in creative writing include live-time weekly classes, day and weekend schools and flexible online courses.
This Specialization covers elements of three major creative writing genres: short story, narrative essay, and memoir. You will master the techniques that good writers use to compose a bracing story, populated with memorable characters in an interesting setting, written in a fresh descriptive style. You will analyze and constructively evaluate ...