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International Women's Writing Guild - Non-profit organization for the empowerment of women through writing. Site provides details of regional workshops and a wealth of useful information about services and benefits available to IWWG members. No portfolio is required.

Affordable Online Writing Courses - Freelancer offers a variety of inexpensive correspondence courses on writing: freelancing, nonfiction articles, short fiction, fiction writing, query letters, plotting, editing & critiquing.

Alicia Hilton - Former FBI agent, attorney, and author, offering writing workshops and consulting services.

Associated Writing Programs - AWP is a nonprofit service organization for writers. Hosts annual writing conference and many activities for writers. Site includes articles, career resources, literary links, and a wealth of information. Since 1967, AWP has supported writers and writing programs around the world. They now support over 21,000 writers at over 340 member colleges and universities and 125 writers' conferences and centers.

Bay Area Fiction Workshop - Fiction writing workshops in the San Francisco area. May provide a model for setting up workshops in other communities. Includes characterization, dialogue, and point of view.

Better Writing Skills - Offers downloadable book, Better Writing Skills, to help with business, thesis, technical and creative writing.

Boston Screenwriting Workshop - Boston Screenwriting Workshop provides classes for beginning to professional screenwriters in the New England area. Targets writers who are "serious about writing and can't go to UCLA or NYU Film School."

CalArts MFA in Writing - The CalArts Writing MFA is neither a "creative" nor a "critical" writing program -- instead it attempts to question and provoke the mutations that occur in forms and styles of writing and reading.

Centauri Arts Summer Writing Retreat - Short residential courses in Creative Writing, located in Bethany, Ontario.

CGU Writing Center - The Claremont Graduate University Writing Center offers an active online writing resource for graduate level students. Offers transdisciplinary programs that encourage collaboration and communication. The goal is to help students negotiate the challenges of graduate level writing while encouraging them to develop their own critical voices and editorial skills.

Clarity Works Writing Classes and Coaching - Writing teacher helps each student free her or his writing voice. In this container - whether it's a class, workshop, retreat or individual session - each person feels nurtured and safe, allowing her to risk revealing the complexity and fullness of her experience-her story. Held in Asheville, North Carolina plus online.

ClearWriter - ClearWriter® is an online system of tools, training, and resources that improve business and professional writing. Offers 12 hours of training. It helps with structure, clarity, conciseness, and precision.

Coffeehouse for Writers Online Workshops - Online workshops for writers featuring personal interaction with your instructor and classmates to help you discover your writing potential, feedback, motivation, inspiration, and advice from your peers.

Course to Excel in Writing - Free online writing course for technical and fiction writers. School for Championships features free online writing course. Covers screen writing, children's stories, and technical writing.

Create a Kids' Book - Delightful website for writers of children's books. Holds regular monthly workshops in Victoria, Australia. Also offers manuscript assessment service for children's books.

Creative Writing Class - This Creative Writing Lesson deals with Writer's Block and how to get rid of it. Offers several resources on freelance writing.

Creative writing courses - Creative writing courses for aspiring writers including residential weekend courses in picturesque Devon UK.

Creative writing practice courses - Nita Sweeney offers classes in Columbus, Ohio, based on many years of study with best-selling auther, Natalie Goldberg.

Creative Writing Programs at Bowling Green State University - One of the oldest established programs in the country, Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University offers both BFA and MFA degrees and has an outstanding record of graduate success in publication and career preparation.

Creativity Workshop - Helps develop the creative process through memoir, creative writing, visual arts and storytelling exercises. Helps to expand perception and find ways of looking at one's life and work as exciting and transformative.

Cynthia Gallaher's Creative Writing Workshops - Trainer's page offers workshops at Midwestern library, school or arts organizations. Includes poetry writing, journal writing, nature writing, and children's workshops.

Dorian Haarhoff, Writer - "We called him Tortoise, because he taught us," they said. Dr. Haarhoff teaches wholistically with courses that suit corporate clients and individuals. Available for settings throughout South Africa.

E-booklets from Beacon Literary Services - Julie Ferguson's Beacon Literary Services feature e-booklets on writing. Julie is an author and speaker/trainer who presents at the Surrey International Writers' Conference and teaches for the Surrey Creative Writing Diploma program.

Eagle Productions Creative Writing Course - Entertaining lessons by New Zealand writer Craig Lock. Two free lessons and lessons for sale regarding articles, poetry, short stories, novels, autobiographies and books.

Editing International, LLC - Exceptionally active series of "Passport Seminars" (in US and British Columbia) covering editing/revision, marketing, fiction and nonfiction craft, planning, brainstorminbg, and the writer's life.

Field's End - Field's End is a writers' community on Bainbridge Island, Washington, offering workshops, lectures, and courses for literary writers. Field's End exists to inspire writers and nurture the written word through instruction in the art and craft of writing.

Find Your Mission in Life Workshop & Conference - Specializing in self-actualization and meditation, this site includes writing therapy: journaling and creative writing.

Fire in the Head creative writing programme - Creative writing courses in picturesque UK countryside. Features the idea of 'whole person' writing, with emphasis on the imagination and creative expression. Students are encouraged to be "literary pyromaniacs" - finding ways to kindle fire and write the blazing results as story or poetry.

Fishtrap - Fishtrap promotes clear thinking and good writing in and about the west through year round workshops, gatherings and writers' retreats.

Freelance Editing and Proofreading Courses - Freelancers offers a course in freelance writing. The course includes: concepts of editing and proofreading, style, layout, spellings, common mistakes, etc. Also includes a Santorini, a short manuscript as you would see it after it has been copyedited.

Get Published - Published authors mentor aspiring and established writers. They provide coaching, consulting, editing, ghostwriting, manuscript evaluation, query letters, book proposals, and agent research.

Glencoe Online Writers Choice - Web site hosted by national educational publisher providing writing assessment and evaluation models, lesson plans, annotated writing models, interactive quizzes, study guides, and practice in proofreading, spelling, grammar, vocabulary.

Gotham Writers' Workshop - Creative writing classes offered online and in NYC in writing fiction, screenplays, nonfiction, poetry, memoirs, novels, mysteries, romances, TV sitcoms, children's books, science fiction, and writing for business.

Herstory Writers Workshop - A nonprofit memoir writing project for women. Begun in 1996 as a community memoir writing project for women, Herstory reaches out to give narrative tools to women who might not ordinarily have access to high quality writing instruction. Partially tuition based and partially publicly funded, it is dedicated to women who feel they have stories to tell.

How to Write Well - Interesting collection of links and services for writers. Offers a home study course on writing.

In Her Own Write - Pamela Garrett provides writing services for a fee, as well as limited writer resources. Pamela has researched, developed, and written materials for public relations and public information, marketing and advertising, education and training, fund raising, political campaigns, and the high-technology industry.

Inkberry - Offers writing workshops in-house and online, manuscript critique, a reading series, and online writing resources including discussion forums and generative exercises.

Innovative Online Writing School - Cafalin.com offers online classes for writers. Discussions are held twice a week for ten weeks in assigned chatrooms. Students can post their work in classroom message boads to get peer feedback.

Institute for Excellence in Writing - This unique site offers resources for writing teachers and home schooling parents who are teaching students to write outside the institutional setting.

Intuitive Voice Creative Writing Workshops - Innovative workshops to help writers find their authentic voices, hone craft, and create with ease. Supportive online coaching is also available.

Julie H. Ferguson - An author presents workshops that provide aspiring authors with the knowledge, skills and confidence to get published.

Just Write! Writing Team - Offers programs designed to support new and emerging writers who are at the stage where they would benefit from professional input. Includes staff profiles, information on workshops, and archive of newsletter issues.

LEARNEX Essentials of Clear Writing - Writing workshops and courses designed for managers, supervisors, professionals and administrative staff.

Liberato - Writing courses and critique service for all writers.

London School of Journalism Distance learning courses - The LSJ offers fiction writing courses, news journalism courses and freelance journalism courses by distance learning. Also offered are courses for short story writing, thriller writing, cartooning and English for business. Established in 1920, LSJ has an international reputation for excellence.

LR Communication Systems, Inc. - Writing courses and seminars, technical writing programs, presentation skills training with online, on-site, self-study, and correspondence options. Focus on business communications.

Lynn Staudacher - Paths To Awareness - Pathways to explore deep within the individual and the collective creative process. Programs offered: Cosmic Footprints, Wanna Write, Trance Formations.

McCloskey Writing Consultants:business and legal writing - Tools to achieve highest standards of professional writing, both in law and in business.

Midwest Writers Workshop - Our 27th summer workshop from July 27-29 for aspiring and accomplished writers features sessions on mystery, romance, children's, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. Richard Lederer, keynoter.

Monte Sol Workshop - Summer writing workshop for high school students in Santa Fe, NM.


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