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

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.

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.

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

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."

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.

Short residential courses in Creative Writing, located in Bethany, Ontario.

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.

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.

An online system of tools, training, and resources that improve business and professional writing. Offers 12 hours of training. Aids with structure, clarity, conciseness, and precision.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Trainer's page offers workshops at Midwestern library, school or arts organizations. Includes poetry writing, journal writing, nature writing, and children's workshops.

"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.

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 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.

Specializing in self-actualization and meditation, this site includes writing therapy: journaling and creative writing.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Interesting collection of links and services for writers. Offers a home study course on writing.

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.

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

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

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.

Innovative workshops to help writers find their authentic voices, hone craft, and create with ease. Supportive online coaching is also available.

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

Writing workshops and courses designed for managers, supervisors, professionals and administrative staff.

Writing courses and critique service for all writers.

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.

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

Pathways to explore deep within the individual and the collective creative process. Programs offered: Cosmic Footprints, Wanna Write, Trance Formations.

Tools to achieve highest standards of professional writing, both in law and in business.

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.

Workshops in poetry, short story, essay, and songwriting.

On-site training in business writing.

A Writer's Workshop for Creative Writers. Includes a residential program with cottage and an interesting newsletter.

British page with links to other interesting sites, discussion groups, research material, and advice for troubleshooting with publishers and agents.

Earn an Online Certificate in Technical Writing.

Online courses taught by experienced professionals: Magazine Writing, Short Fiction, Poetry, Life Story, Travel, Screenwriting, Creative Training, Editing, Technical, and Grantwriting.

Tips on how to write more concisely and crisply. Learn to eliminate errors and communicate more effectively with your intended audience.

Helps writers develop discipline, balance and structure in life and writing.

Provides writing instruction and publishes annual anthology in affiliation with TallGrass Writers Guild, a non-profit writers organization/resource.

An on-line writing tutorial. This site takes users through the actual steps of writing a paragraph. Supplementary information also included.

Critique forum for writers, with archive of submissions.

Customized workshops to help adults read, write and think more efficiently and effectively.

Professional writing skills, communication skills, speaking skills, English grammar, writing skills - seminars and workshops in indianapolis indiana.

Dedicated to writing better at work, proofread.com provides free writing resources. Our corporate seminar, Write Better at Work, is the best training of its kind.

Learn about contracts, royalties, copyright, e-books, and printing costs.

Provides individualized writing instruction and tutorial assistance in grammar, composition, and other aspects of writing. Especially useful in writing mechanics.

Online writing workshops for beginning and intermediate writers of short fiction, creative nonfiction, the novel, screenwriting, and memoirs.

Copywriting, creative and technical writing workshops, seminars, and training. Lessons from Sallianne Norelli (copywriter and children?s book author).

Learn poetry lingo and submit a piece or critique to our online workshop. Open to fiction, non-fiction, free-verse poetry, or formed.

An e-Learning site that provides free online lessons, character-building messages, and techniques to excel in school, work and life. Various articles on preparing technical documentation, and tools usage.

This workshop explains self-publishing process, costs and manuscript requirements.

Detailed descriptions of hundreds of writing conferences, seminars and workshops worldwide. Searchable by state, country, specialty, keyword. Includes calendar of upcoming programs.

Serene Rocky Mountains retreat with professional, personal writing instruction. Monthly free tips and exercises. Monthly newsletter delivers even more to your site. 4-day and week long workshops. Contest.

An interactive writing workshop for beginners and intermediate fiction and nonfiction writers.

Writing and related arts center in Chicago offering creative writing classes, customized workshops for businesses, individual instruction and writing coaching.

This online university offers more than 200 continuing education courses in 18 different schools.

Tests that can be used to evaluates the skills of prospective technical writers.

Active and useful online writing lab offering resources on grammar, essays, summaries, research papers, MLA style, Turabian style, quotations, plagiarism, and cover letters.

The attic is a unique writer's workshop (and haven) in Portland. Visit to read about workshops and enjoy the atmosphere in this writing community.

Workshops for writers focusing on completing a manuscript.

Join various mailing list workshops such as poetry, fiction, flash fiction, romance, novels, and non-fiction. Post and receive critiques of work, plus critique other works. Discuss the finer points of writing.

Non-profit organization offering email courses for Jewish writers including journalism, memoir, fiction, grant writing, publishing and poetry. Courses are interactive and fee based. Editing and critique service also offered.

Comprehensive but concise, practical and example-filled, award-winning guide to writing college essays. Free.

Writing program that blasts through writer's block in a historic San Francisco mansion. Fiction, memoir, and screenplays.

Coaching and workshops to increase motivation, release blocks, build confidence, increase creativity and assist both professional and aspiring writers to become more successful.

Freelancer offers a variety of correspondence courses on writing: freelancing, nonfictionb fiction, query letters, plotting, editing and critiquing.

A 15-year old writing school located in New York City offering continuous 10-week beginning and advanced workshops in Fiction and Poetry, online classes, and private tutorials.

Online and oncampus writing program specializing in creative nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, literary journalism, nonfiction books, memoir and short stories.

The Writers' Workshop offers year-round classes in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, journalism, and screenwriting.

Christian writers school with correspondence courses aimed at improving written communications.

Year-round school of creative writing classes located in San Francisco's Bernal Heights. Fiction, poetry, personal essays, memoirs, screenwriting, playwriting, and magazine writing. Nine and five-week courses; also one-day workshops.

The Myth Breakers school teaches writing by home-based curriculum. Geared for those who wish to write copy for selling or promoting goods or services.

Writing courses by correspondence. Teaches short story, article, memoir, and business communications. Learn to write with interactive help from professionals.

Instructional design and training development services for businesses and corporations. Writer's coach service to assist technical or web writers in developing clear communications.

The Writing Space was founded in Toronto in 1990 as a small press and writers' organization. Workshops are available from The School of the Writing Space. Publications include fiction, poetry, non-fiction, interviews and a twice-yearly literary journal

TimePieces personal biographies offers your personal family history in a published book written by a talented professional writer and seminars on how to do it yourself.

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 boards to get peer feedback.

Television writing explained by award winning writer/producer Larry Brody.

One-week retreats in legendary Mexican village for writers of fiction and literary non-fiction.

Publish poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction and reviews. Comprehensive information on writing related courses, careers, competitions, events, and reviews. Interactive features include a bulletin board, chat, and online workshops.

Writers' resources, books, and coaching in all publishing and manuscript writing.

Classes on Maui are offered to small groups of writers.

Licensed social worker offers help to writers via phone and telecourses. A unique approach to writer's needs.

Teleclasses, publications, and coaching help writers jump-start and complete their books and articles. Free weekly newsletters, tips, and resources. Fiction, nonfiction, business writing, networking, writer's block.

Located ten miles north of Boston. Offers creative writing workshops, retreats and seminars.

A proofreading service to help students polish writing before submitting it for a grade or review.

First-class home-study creative writing course from professional writers. Earn while you learn. Full refund guarantee if not successful.

Local writers group in the Western Catskills (Delware County, New York). Workshops include Journal, Fiction, Poetry, Play-writing, as well as advanced workshops where manuscripts are critiqued.

The Writers' retreat offers a broad spectrum of coursework and literary services and provides short residency workshops.

Nonprofit organization dedicated to the Christian writer: free resources, online classes with published Christian authors.

International on-line writers group with an emphasis on education. Over 130 fiction, non-fiction and poetry writing courses and workshops are available to members. Other features include e-zine, weekly chats, discussion forums and live site guides. New members are welcome.

From Writer's Digest, offering interactive, instructor-led online creative writing courses in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and memoir writing.

Online courses, email tutorials, and writing evaluations for homeschoolers, professionals, and anyone else who wants to improve his writing.

Site features e-mail courses and workshops for writers.

Classes on craft of magazine writing, how to write your life story, or how to become a travel writer.

The Art of Writing - How to Write Fiction - Creating Non-fiction stories. Writing Coach for Screenplays - Writing Book Proposals - Business Writing Coach

Links and resources for attendees of writing seminar and visitors to this website.

An on-line course to teach basic through advanced English writing skills to all ages, focusing on learning to write essays. Grammar and vocabulary are taught in each unit covering a variety of writing types.

How to improve your business writing & reading Skills. Uses workbook and on-line courses.

Interactive site created to help students improve English reading, writing and listening skills.

Post your stories, poetry, essays, or anything else you're working on. Free feedback.

Workshop on using informal, playful expressive writing as a way to strengthen skills of language and thinking.