Our Courses

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Literature: “The Heart of Storytelling: Craft Characters That Captivate”

Every great story starts with unforgettable characters. Learn how to bring your characters to life with this free class designed to elevate your storytelling.

Introduction to Writing Between Forms

This four-week workshop explores writing that blurs boundaries — between poetry, prose, and everything in between. Through reading, discussion, and guided prompts, you’ll experiment with form, voice, and rhythm to create your own hybrid pieces.

Sensuality in the Short Story

This four-week online writing workshop will give students the skills to confidently incorporate sex and sensuality into their writing.

Monetize Your Writing & IP (Global Edition) — Litro Masterclass


Learn how to protect your work, understand your rights, and explore ways to earn — while publishing on your terms.…

Flash Fiction Course

One-hour weekly Flash Fiction online workshops with Litro’s Award winning Flash Friday Editor, Catherine McNamara, where you will learn techniques to write flash fiction and tools to confidently put your work out there.…

The Surreal and the Strange through Prompts: A Generative Workshop

This four-week workshop will walk students through the great surreal prose poets of our age. The tutor, will share his own unique prompts and sample prose poems written to the same prompts, so students can gain insight into the improvisation …

Writing Your Body

We’re pleased to offer a summer masterclass with award-winning and Women’s Prize for Fiction Futures shortlisted novelist, Jessica Andrews. This two-week, intensive workshop will walk students through how to write from lived experience, and how to turn their lives and …

Beyond Good and Evil: How to Balance Your Professional and Creative Life as a Writer

This four-week Masterclass will walk students through how they can their balance professional and creative lives. Through a combination of instruction and generative exercises, bestselling author Glenn Fisher will give you craft-based prompts to demonstrate the ways in which the …

Handling Rejection, Building Resilience

In this one-day workshop, Jenny Knight will teach writers how to navigate the process of handling inevitable setbacks, building resilience, and creating a supportive writing community.…

Writing for Resistance Course… with Maria Thomas

For those with some experience of writing creatively, this inclusive and supportive online class offers an opportunity to learn more about the history and diverse forms of resistance literature. …

Short Story Lab: How to Start a Story… with

The first in Maria Thomas’s series of online workshops for budding and practicing short story writers.…

Novel Writing: The Secrets for Success

The day course will examine the fundamental building blocks of a strong, compelling (and ready-to-submit) novel. Areas covered include pace and characterisation – with special focus on building tension and suspense – as well as the editing and submission process. …