TOP 10 CREATIVE WRITING COURSES IN UK - PAGE 3

Write a story, pen a poem, unleash your inner author on this new and exciting writing course for beginners. This course will allow new writers/authors to find their voice through words and the spoken word. You will have the chance to write a short story and poem.

The aim of the course is for students to acquire creative writing skills. You will be offered a chance to study different techniques for developing a variety of ideas and will be encouraged to critique your own work along with the work of others.

Powerful, transformative writing is built through two important pillars: the ability to create a narrative that is both compelling and original. Our Creative Writing Beginners course will give you the initial tools to bring these stories to life. 

Writing is everywhere. From the films we watch, the TV we stream and the books we read, to the social media posts we write, the marketing pitches that surround us and the news stories we receive across print and digital formats. Increasingly too, that writing is not produced by people, but by AI.

We have registered over 360,000 learners throughout our history and worked with over 400 organisations. OCN NI are at the forefront of education within Northern Ireland. We want to be your Awarding Organisation of choice.

If you would like to explore creative writing, then this course is for you. We will experiment with poetry as well as investigate technical aspects of fiction such as plot structure, developing characterisation and dialogue and establishing setting and mood.

You will learn how to read and think as a writer and explore the choices faced and decisions taken by writers. Regular workshops and bespoke reading lists will serve to inform and enrich your own work.

You will learn how to read and think as a writer and explore the choices faced and decisions taken by writers. Regular workshops and bespoke reading lists will serve to inform and enrich your own work.

If you have a novel in your head but are overwhelmed by the idea of writing it, this one-day course will help you to begin.

A six-week creative writing course for women and non-binary writers of all experiences and abilities, Ignite will help you reduce fear of the blank page, push through doubt and lead you through essential writing techniques, such as characterisation, dialogue and creating dynamic settings.