25 Best Creative Writing Courses Online
We compared 25 Creative Writing courses currently listed on Coursera, Udemy and edX, priced from $19.99 to $299.00. 7 come from a named university or institution, including Wesleyan University, Michigan State University and University of California, Irvine. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 25
- Price range
- $19.99 – $299.00
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy, edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 25 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, edX, matched to "creative writing" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $299.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Creative Writing
Offered by Wesleyan University
This Specialization covers elements of three major creative writing genres: short story, narrative essay, and memoir. You will master the techniques that good writers use to compose a bracing story, populated with memora...
$49.00listed price -
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Creative Writing: The Craft of Character
Offered by Wesleyan University
At the center of a good story are the characters in it. In this course aspiring writers will discover how to build and bring to life complex, vivid and unforgettable characters. We will study the choices a writer makes t...
$79.00listed price -
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Turn Ideas Into Unique Content: Tools For Creative Writing
Offered by Skillshare
By the end of this course, you will be able to capture and organize ideas effectively, develop a personalized system for creative thinking, and transform everyday observations into compelling written content. In Turn Ide...
$49.00listed price -
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Authorpreneur Masterclass | Creative Writing | Book Writing
Are you ready to transform your passion for writing into a thriving career? The Authorpreneur Masterclass is your ultimate guide to mastering Creative Writing, Content Writing, and Writing a Book while building a sustain...
$19.99listed price -
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CREATIVE WRITING MASTERCLASS - 3 Act Story Course
This creative writing course and story class is for any type of media (novels, movies, TV shows, long stories, short stories, etc!) And will breakdown 3 Act Structure. Write a Story that HOOKS IN YOUR AUDIENCE and...
$99.99listed price -
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Write with me and journal. Creative writing is all. Thankyou
I am an indie author and blogger. I write stories for a living, and I feel others deserve to learn what I learn while journaling my thoughts to make a book better over the years. Journaling has helped me a lot along my a...
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Writing a Book: Creative Writing Skills for Self-publishing
You’ll work through the basics of story structure, character creation and dialogue, then move on to more advanced narrative techniques. The course mixes practical writing exercises with discussions of discipline and proc...
$19.99listed price -
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Writing poetry and other creative writing, and promoting it
Offered by Alex Genadinik
Learn to write poetry and other creative writing, and appreciate its beauty and power to enrich your inner life. Also learn how to avoid procrastination and get motivated so you write your own creative work, and also lea...
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Transmedia Writing
Offered by Michigan State University
Do you have a desire to write a novel, write a screenplay, design a video game? In this project-centered course you will develop your own, original, intellectual property (IP) into a transmedia project containing written...
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Write Your First Novel
Offered by Michigan State University
WRITE YOUR FIRST NOVEL From Inc.com - The 30 Most Popular Online Courses of 2020 "Write Your First Novel" made the list at #15 https://lnkd.in/gZqscmn If you’ve ever had the dream, the desire or even just a vague notion...
$49.00listed price -
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Enhance your Writing with Noun Clauses
Offered by University of California, Irvine
This course is designed to hold your hand step-by-step through the most basic concepts of noun clauses all the way to the end goal of writing a paragraph with varied noun clauses. With each individual lesson, you’ll watc...
$49.00listed price -
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Manga Drawing Basic Course / Story Writing & Storyboarding
Offered by Japan Animation & Manga College
* There are no feedback from the pros in this course.In this course, the members challenge themselves to create original manga based on the Japanese folklore, "Momotaro".We had Kei Natsumi-sensei, a manga artist, draw a...
$34.99listed price -
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Storying the Self: How Stories Shape our Identities
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Explore how artists have come to understand their identities over time, through creative media and scholarly discussions. You will connect with your own sources of creative inspiration, and revisit a major moment in your...
$49.00listed price -
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Stand Up!; Comedy Writing and Performance Poetry
Offered by University of Cambridge
Prepare to perform your comic writing and/or poetry to a live audience, as well as develop transferable writing skills and communication expertise that will be relevant in any profession. This course will broaden your un...
$299.00listed price -
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Storying the Self: Telling our Stories
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Ask for and give constructive feedback on your work, and consider venues for sharing your stories as both a leader and creator. In leadership contexts, this translates to authentic purpose, vision, and values. You’ll eng...
$49.00listed price -
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Finding your voice as a playwright
Offered by University of Cambridge
Learn to deepen your creative practice as a playwright, as well as develop professionally transferable writing skills and communication expertise. This course will broaden your understanding of how to start a career succ...
$299.00listed price -
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Prompt Engineering For Everyone with ChatGPT and GPT-4
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
$49.00listed price -
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Writing and Editing: Word Choice and Word Order
Offered by University of Michigan
This course focuses on enhancing your writing skills, teaching you how to choose your words carefully to engage and persuade your audience. You'll explore creative uses of syntax, master storytelling techniques, and disc...
$49.00listed price -
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Writing successfully for the Stage
Offered by University of Cambridge
Learn to structure your dramatic writing to a professional standard, as well as develop professionally transferable communication skills. This course will broaden your understanding of how to write engaging and interesti...
$299.00listed price -
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Memoir and Personal Essay: Write About Yourself
Offered by Wesleyan University
How To Write About Yourself...so that someone else wants to read it! This is the heart of this Coursera specialization in Memoir and Personal Essay. Masters of both genres share tips, prompts, exercises, readings and cha...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to AI for Beginners
Offered by SkillsBooster Academy
Unlock the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with this practical course designed to transform your productivity, creativity, and decision-making. In this course, you'll learn the fundamentals of AI, including Generat...
$49.00listed price -
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Reconceiving Space: Installation and Performance Art
Offered by University of Cambridge
Learn to deepen your dramaturgical practice in the experimental world of installation and performance art, as well as continue to develop professionally transferable writing skills and communication expertise. This cours...
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Fiction Writing: Psychological Thriller & Done For You Plot
Transform Your Writing Dreams into Reality: Enroll in Our Unique Psychological Thriller Course Today!Dear Future Bestselling Author,Are you captivated by the psychological depth and gripping suspense of thriller novels?...
$199.99listed price -
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The 5 Most Powerful Songwriting Exercises...Revealed!
Concise, digestible, and radically practical!Like you, we love learning new things and acquiring new skills to get us closer to our vision for our music — but we don’t love long-winded courses, padded out with informatio...
$149.99listed price -
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The Ultimate Guide to Comics Creation Automation with AI
Welcome to The Ultimate Guide to Comics Creation Automation with AI course. Here in this course, you will extensively learn how to automate your comics creation using AI tools where not only will you be able to speed up...
$19.99listed price
Best Creative Writing Courses Online compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 25 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $299.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $279.01. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera, Udemy and edX. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 7 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Wesleyan University, Michigan State University and University of California, Irvine — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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