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Join an online creative writing workshop with the Gilliam Writers Group.

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If you’re craving accountability or seeking specific tools for your writing practice, consider signing up for one of our creative writing classes online. Designed and led by published authors with years of teaching experience, these courses will challenge you to learn new skills while refining the ones you’ve already developed. 

Click on the workshops below to view complete details and register.

Summoning the Muse, a Creative Writing Workshop with Matt Del Busto

Summoning the Muse

In this single-evening, all-genre workshop, we’ll learn how writing routines and daily rituals can move us to start creating inspiration from our everyday lives rather than waiting for it to strike.

  • Thursday, September 18
  • 7–10pm Eastern / 4–7pm Pacific
  • sliding scale, $70–$130
  • meets online via Zoom
Finding Recklessness in Form, a Poetry Writing Workshop with Julián Delacruz

Finding Recklessness in Form

This 6-week poetry workshop privileges evolution in writing style rather than perfection, learning to be unapologetically yourself, and leaning into your own necessary subjects with depth and ease.

  • Sundays from 7–9pm Eastern / 4–6pm Pacific
  • October 5, 12, 19, 26, & November 2 & 9
  • $450 total
  • meets online via Zoom
A Fork in the Road, a Speculative Fiction Writing Workshop with Tadeh Kennedy

A Fork in the Road

In this single-evening fiction writing workshop, we will explore and craft texts that dare to imagine new histories and reclaim erased narratives.

  • Tuesday, October 28
  • 7–9pm Eastern / 4–6pm Pacific
  • sliding scale, $50–$150
  • meets online via Zoom

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    Our online creative writing workshops challenge groups of all levels and backgrounds—professionals, students, hobbyists, and more—to hone their craft together, trusting in and beyond the guidance of their instructors.

    Each Gilliam Writers Group creative writing class is facilitated by an accomplished author who loves to teach. 

    All workshop instructors partner with our firm’s administrators throughout the curriculum design process, ensuring that every aspect of your learning experience has been vetted by multiple parties beforehand.

    (In-person creative writing classes are available in select locations. Please contact us to learn more about creative writing workshops near you.)

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  • Learn better, together.

    GWG’s workshops provide an invaluable opportunity to deepen your writing practice with expert guidance and feedback from your peers. Every creative writing class we offer imparts actionable knowledge to help you achieve your literary goals.

    You’ll be simultaneously challenged and supported by select members of our coaching faculty, who are not only successful authors with ample publishing experience, but passionate teachers who understand how to instruct and motivate.

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  • Work better, together.

    We also design custom creative, academic, and professional writing workshops for schools, universities, companies, nonprofits, and other organizations. 

    Our Workshops Coordinator will collaborate with you to craft a group learning experience that effectively refines your team’s communication skills, no matter your industry or field.

    Our expert-led workshops for organizations can take place either online, or in person in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, or LA.

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  • Book your spot today.

    Ready to participate in a focused, rigorous, and fun learning experience? Eager to build community with other thinkers and writers?

    Check out our current schedule of online creative writing classes above, or contact us about custom options for your private group or organization.

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