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Wordsmiths Wanted: Learn Creative Writing Online
Enroll in creative writing courses online, study with professional literary educators, and find your voice as a writer.
Interlochen’s virtual classes provide you with access to one of the best online creative writing programs in the country, whether you’re interested in personal enrichment, a one-time exploratory course, professional publication, or furthering long-term career plans. Online courses through Interlochen—one of the nation’s premier arts training institutions—can significantly improve your capabilities for written expression.
Ready for What’s Next
Online creative writing classes with Interlochen will help expand your toolset across any genre. With the work produced in each writing course, you can build a portfolio of strong, polished creative work so that you’re ready for college or a writing career. The learning experience of working directly with a writing instructor is a gamechanger—Interlochen faculty care about your future and want to see you succeed as a writer.
What You’ll Learn
All creative writing online courses offered by Interlochen include the opportunity to study under expert faculty-mentors. Interlochen has designed one of the best online creative writing programs available, and our online courses are able to help a student at any level learn writing skills and grow in creative expression. Courses include instruction on college essay writing, fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, novels, scriptwriting, screenwriting, and more. Classes generally survey various genres, writing styles, literary techniques, tone, and voice.
Your Story—Told Your Way
Developing as a writer, and telling your story as an individual, is part of the beauty of language arts. Interlochen's creative writing courses give writers the opportunity to workshop their ideas as writers and grow as individuals. Every piece produced during an Interlochen writing course will retain your personal voice but also reflect a professional mentor’s touch.
When It Works for You
Taking an online course with Interlochen gives you flexibility and convenience. Generally you'll spend five hours each week completing coursework at any time and in any place that works for you. That includes responding to writing prompts, drafting and revising, and learning from engaging video segments. Classes meet for approximately one hour each week in a live session with the instructor. (Each class is recorded so that if you miss one, you can catch up easily.) Discussions happen in real time online during that class hour or occur at other times through chats.
You’re Not Alone
While creative writing is a very personal and individualized artistic discipline, the group aspect of an online class is highly encouraging. Students love the opportunity to learn from a professional, experienced writer-educator. Our online creative writing faculty take their online courses seriously and invest time in guiding student writers, giving directed feedback, leading engaging activities, and providing ample opportunity for class discussion.
Our online students also find that interacting with a community of other writers helps them improve their creative work and overall versatility in expressing themselves. The benefit of learning from other writers’ perspectives is invaluable and impossible to achieve on our own.
Enroll in one of the best online creative writing programs in the country and develop your craft under the coaching of our world-class instructors. Create a body of work that’s all your own—ready for submission to a publisher, college program, or professional writers group.
Introduction to Creative Writing: Study Guide
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