Online
Creative Writing Workshops
For those writers who are not enrolled in a workshop, productive and objective feedback is hard to come by. Online workshops, however, provide a unique opportunity for beginning writers to receive feedback on creative writing. Hearing the opinions and critiques of other writers is a vital component of every creative writer's growth, and the workshops available on the web today enable writers to receive commentary from a vast and diverse range of readers.
Cafe.Blue's Gazebo: The online writing workshop associated with the online journal, The Blue Moon Review.
Dublin Writer's Workshop: Dublin's longest running online writing workshop featuring a workshop, an online Zine, Electric.Acorn, and a listserv.
The Internet Writing Workshop: A general purpose, cross genre workshop which uses a listserv format to critique the submissions of its members.
Kalliope Online Poetry Workshop: An online poetry workshop designed exclusively for poets. The site also offers exercises on composing poetry.
Last Words: A non-academic creative writing workshop which accepts work in a wide range of genres, including general fiction, science fiction, romance, historical, travel writing, poetry, and essays.
The Online Writery: An online workshop associated with the University of Missouri at Columbia featuring "an open discussion list where informal, open-ended conversation is welcome about anything concerning writing, writers, life, those sorts of things."
Poem of the Week Discussion Group: An online poetry workshop associated with the Poem of the Week site, an interactive forum for established and beginning poets.
Severed Deception: An online poetry workshop that welcomes beginners.
Storyarts: An online writing workshop featuring discussions of selected submissions from new and established writers and online writing exercises developed by professional writers.
Stray Cat Writer's Workshop: A small online writing workshop open to poetry and prose.
Trace: Online Writing Community: A site seeking "to build a lively interactive literary community" and offering creative writing workshops, chat, conference posting, contests, and links to member's home pages.
Writers Center of Greater Cleveland Online Writers Workshop: An online writing workshop associated with the Writers Center of Greater Cleveland. Although the workshop's moderator focuses on a different genre of writing each month, the workshop accepts poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and playwriting.
The Writer's Nook: An online workshop and writing resource center for established and beginning writers which evolved from the print based Writer's Nook News newsletter.
The Writer's Pad: An online workshop which accepts poetry and prose and features an archive of favorite submissions.
Write, Rewrite, and -30-: Moderated and pay workshops for "serious writers" of fiction and non-fiction. In addition to paying an admission fee and completing an application, participants are required to post a minimum of 3 messages per month in order to maintain membership in the workshop.
Zeugma: An online workshop for "advanced" poets. Poets must apply for admission to the workshop.
Zoetrope:
All Story Workshop: A busy online workshop
associated with Francais Ford-Coppla's fiction magazine. This workshop
offers not only peer feedback and writerly interaction, but the chance
for publication in Zoetrope:
All Story.
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