Writing Courses by Writing Magazine
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About our writing courses
Our writing courses are run by award-winning authors, professional novelists and industry experts, best-selling writers, poets and journalists, university lecturers and academic leaders.
Wherever you are in your own writing journey, just getting started, about to publish, looking to sell your work, or taking the next step in your career, we offer the training, support and guidance you need to help you achieve your writing goals.
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The saying goes that “everyone has a novel in them” and it's our mission to help you get yours out! Brought to you by real writing experts who were once exactly where you are now.
We all start from somewhere. Our writing tutors are true experts that know what it takes to get published, to get paid, to get noticed, to get read. Join us today, let us help you to get where you want to be in your own writing career.
Our Writing Courses By our expert tutors
Starting Out
Suitable for:
✔ Writers starting out
Are you new to writing and wondering how to go about breaking into print? If so, this course can almost certainly help. It will help you find the field for which your own writing talents are best suited, and will show you how to produce the kind of material that editors and publishers in that field demand.
Suitable for:
✔ Writers starting out ✔ Improving writers
How should you structure paragraphs? What factors should influence your sentence length? What is the difference between a topic sentence and a what-next sentence and when should you use these sentences? These are typical questions your course addresses and will give you a flavour of the kind of work you will be tackling.
Suitable for:
✔ Writers starting out ✔ Improving writers
A unique, purposeful and enjoyable course to tell you how to best capitalise on what is probably your most prized possession: your stock of personal memories. The course will guide you through what is likely to work well and warns you of obvious dangers. It is full of tips gained from practical experience which you can apply to telling your memories, whether you do so for occasional pleasure or as the basis of a business.
Suitable for:
✔ Writers starting out ✔ Improving writers
The essential skills of building and writing your novel. Based on the popular 'Start your story with Writing Magazine' workshop, this course details everything you need to get your novel off the ground.
By Genre
Suitable for:
✔ Writers starting out ✔ Improving writers
Poetry can be the most creative and the most satisfying of all forms of writing. Most people who enjoy words have within them the ability to create poetry, if only they knew how. Our course teaches where and how to find inspiration, how to translate the inspiration into words, and how to craft your words into lines of poetry.
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✔ Writers starting out ✔ Improving writers
Our online writing for children course covers everything you need to know as a children's writer from finding your style to marketing your work. Work with a published children's writer and find out for which age group your writing style suits best. The course can cover everything from picture books for toddlers through to series reads for teenagers.
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✔ Writers starting out ✔ Improving writers
Fancy yourself as the next big crime writer? Study the key ingredients to writing a successful crime novel with our online writing course.
Suitable for:
✔ Improving writers
Whether you are a newcomer who has a particular interest in non-fiction, or a more experienced writer who wishes to transfer your skills into a different genre, the Creative Non-Fiction course will give you a thorough grounding in this fast growing and popular genre.
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✔ Writers starting out ✔ Improving writers
Work alongside a professional short story writer to find out what it takes to write a publishable story. Our online short story writing course teaches you to create credible plots and structure your story as well as showing you how to present your work ready for publication.
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✔ Writers starting out ✔ Improving writers
The inside scoop on getting editor noticed - learn to write what the publishers are looking for and sell your work with our online article writing and freelance journalism course. We start with a review of the editorial policies and requirements of the various market sectors open to you. For each, you will see their needs from an editor's-eye view and see exactly where there are opportunities for the freelance writer.
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✔ Improving writers ✔ Advanced writers
Have you always wanted to turn your ideas into a novel? Our online fiction writing course will help you get started, taking you from the basics through to submitting your manuscript to publishers. Your course starts with guidance on choosing the subject matter and treatment of a novel that will be saleable in today's marketplace. You are shown how to analyse publishers' requirements and how to structure your novel to meet these requirements. You will also be guided as to
Getting Published
Suitable for:
✔ Improving writers ✔ Advanced writers
There are lots of ways to get paid for your writing. With this course you will learn different methods to help you get the most from your writing to start earning income.
Suitable for:
✔ Improving writers ✔ Advanced writers
Are you ready to show the world your hard work? Make sure you do it right with this two-part course and gain practical tips and advice to ensure your book is a success.
Suitable for:
✔ Improving writers ✔ Advanced writers
Turn your writing talent into a valuable source of income - perhaps even a new career - with this brand new course from WM Creative Writing Courses. As a ghostwriter, you need skills that not every writer has. Opting to write professionally for somebody else introduces a different approach to writing than you have used before.
Every course is personalised for you
More than a course - these are personalised journeys designed around you.
Our courses start with a personal profile of you plus two fixed assignments. These are designed to challenge and develop your writing, but combined with your profile, helps your personal course tutor to understand where you are in your writing ability, your style and your aspirations.
All further assignments are personalised for you, to target the areas of your own writing that could be polished, improved and finessed to help you become the writer you want to be.
No deadlines Work at your own pace
"Really, how can that be?" I hear you asking. Because our courses give you up to two years to complete your assignments. Why two years? Because we know that it can be difficult to find time to write, juggling many of life's demands, finding time to focus can be difficult and writing to a high standard is not easy.
So whether you are working part time or full time, only writing at weekends or when time permits, a parent, a student or you simply enjoy the challenge and art of writing as a hobby, we understand that being time poor is part of modern life. So no deadlines to stress about, no completion dates to worry over, no rushing to complete a task.
You work in your own time, when you can, at a pace that suits you. After all, these courses are there to help you to fulfil a passion, not add to the daily grind, but enhance, guide and develop one of the oldest and most beautiful art forms, the craft of writing.
Webinar based complete novel writing course
Perhaps you would prefer to learn from our webinar video series. Our complete webinar writing course is available on demand!
Suitable for:
✔ Writers starting out ✔ Improving writers
This 12-part, 8.5-hour course has been created to provide apprentice novelists will all of the essential tools and information they need to produce a polished novel. It starts at the very beginning of your project with the idea and takes you through to the submissions and publication process.
Our webinar modules are available both individually and as a complete course.
Even more great writing resources
Novel Mentoring
By James McCreet
Our novel mentoring service is for people who need one-to-one supervision with the construction of a new work, the refinement/repair of work in progress, or help with refining craft.
James says:
"I try to understand what the writer wants to achieve in their work and what effect they want to have on their target readership. Then we work together to produce the best possible reading experience. I like to create a balance between personal expression and the highest standards of craft. Good writing is my goal."
Critique Service
Have your writing critiqued by a professional writer
Why have your writing critiqued?
- Professional accreditation
- Full or mini manuscripts are assessed
- Gain valuable feedback from a professional writer
If you have writing ready to send to an editor or publisher or you simply want professional guidance on how your writing is progressing, Writing Magazine Reading and Critique service is here to help.
Our critique service is for all types of writing including novels, poetry, short stories, scripts and many more writing styles.
Meet your course tutors
So how do I get started?
Take a look at our courses, choose the most relevant course for you and dive in. Once your payment is received, you will receive a welcome pack, a personal profile form to complete and a course pack containing your initial assignments. From then on, everything is at your pace, personalised to your particular needs and focussed on one thing, making your writing great.
We can't wait to hear from you, so please join our community of writers and maybe you could be our next success story. We look forward to working with you. You deserve this, don't hesitate any more, pick a course and start today.
Course extensions
A course extension is ideal for you if you have just completed either a six or eight-assignment Writing Magazine creative writing course. A course extension allows you to extend your writing studies with us to include an additional six assignments for just £140.
Your extension assignments will be personally set by your professional writing tutor and will provide you with essential advice on how to improve your writing even further and help you achieve your writing ambitions.
To book your course extension, call 01778 392 492 or email us. Please have your student reference number to hand.