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The Writing Course to Get Published

We grow writers

We're the online writing school preferred and recommended by leading literary agencies. We grow writers. From idea to a book in a year.

Write your novel in the care of bestselling, award-winning authors and publishing professionals. From coming up with an idea to putting pen to paper through to producing that beautiful last draft, we'll be at your side every step of the way. Our uniquely effective courses were created by our founder, a Booker Prize-listed, award-winning author, Louise Dean.

Discover ground-breaking techniques to plot and structure your story for literary and commercial success. Develop outstanding storytelling skills. Our team will help you stay on track. You'll be welcomed into a thriving community with weekly online writing classes and events. We look forward to you becoming one of our success stories.

The Online Writing Courses With Published Author Tutors

A working friendship to guide you and keep you motivated to stay on track

We're passionate about writing fiction and we love working with writers to create exciting stories and see them through to finding publishers. Whether you're aiming for a contract with a major publisher, to self-publish or to write a story for your family, we'll make a plan to get you there.

You'll be able to choose your preferred author tutor for your one-to-one video sessions when you sign up for one of our Book in a Year ® plans. Schedule the working sessions to fit into your life. All lessons recorded for you to keep. We'll ensure you get off to a good start and use your time wisely to write in the direction of your ambition. This time, you'll crack it.

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The Online Course With the Onward Path

So much more than online writing courses, our course graduates go on to secure leading literary agents.

We work with world-class literary agencies seeking exciting new writing talent. Recognizing the quality of our graduates' writing, they prioritise our submissions and respond fast – typically within days. We have secured representation for our writers with agencies like United Agents, PF+D, Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency and others. If you mean business as a writer, we can introduce you to the best agents to get you a publishing contract and even license your work for TV and film.

“A wonderful organisation for aspiring writers, and we’re thrilled to work with them!”

Madeleine Milburn, Director of Madeleine Milburn Literary TV & Film Agency representing award-winning and bestselling authors of adult and children’s fiction who feature on The Sunday Times, New York Times and international bestseller lists.

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Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency

Mushens Entertainment

United Agents Worldwide

TMG New York

Peters Fraser + Dunlop

The Soho Agency

A.M. Heath

Eve White Literary Agency

David Higham Associates

Johnson & Alcock

Watson, Little Ltd

Georgina Capel Associates

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Your Success Story Starts Here

“Quite simply – brilliant.”

“Writing my debut novel, Fifty Minutes, whilst completing the course at The Novelry, was an intense experience but an absolutely pleasurable one. Louise Dean and her team are quite simply brilliant. The lessons and guidance I received were first class and helped me to develop as a writer. From the initial idea for my novel to the point of getting agent representation, The Novelry were on hand with support and advice. The dream was always to get an agent and so to receive interest from several was mind-blowing - to have Madeleine Milburn within that list was more than I could have hoped for. I’m thrilled!”

– Carla Jenkins

What makes us different?

Wolrd-class courses. We offer structured, self-paced writing courses online with lessons timed to coincide intuitively with writing your book step-by-step. You'll be inspired and motivated by the interactive course materials. With more five-star reviews than any other writing course online.

An encouraging, non-competitive collaborative environment. Our one-to-one personal approach begins with you and your story. We never lose sight of who you are and what you'd like to achieve.

Choose your bestselling author tutor and enjoy custom coaching in online sessions at times to suit you.

Get feedback on your work with professional publishing editors with experience working with major bestselling authors.

Get published with our planned pathway to submit your work to our leading literary agency partners.

A supportive active writing group. Drop into the weekly writing classes with bestselling authors, literary agents and publishing professionals. You'll be able to work in small workshop groups perfect for your writing in every genre of fiction.

Live the writing life.

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The Book in a Year

Write from the idea to the very end of your book with our 4-step program and complete a novel to publishing standard to get pitched to the world's leading literary agencies.

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The Finished Novel Course

Our alternative to a creative writing MA or MFA. A fully online course with monthly one-to-one feedback sessions with our authors and editors towards a fully edited manuscript.

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✨ NEW: The Big Idea

Get started with the writing course for those in search of a story idea. The course to build your creative writing confidence.

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The Classic Course

Ready to plan a big story? 45 “mind-blowing” lessons from the all-time classic bestsellers to build the world and plot of your story.

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The Ninety Day Novel ®

Over 100+ lessons and coaching sessions with an author tutor to complete your first draft. For those with a novel ready to write.

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The Editing Courses

Expert insights to edit and revise to publishing standard. 50+ lessons. Get feedback at our workshop and from our editorial team.

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Some of Our Writing Course Graduates’ Published Novels

How to Write a Bestseller

With Meg Rosoff

Always start your blogs with a list. Everyone loves a list.
Know your craft. If you can’t write to save your life, it’s just plain logical to choose another career. Unless you’re Dan Brown, Jeffrey Archer, E.L. James or any of the other richer than Croesus so-called writers whose ability to put together a coherent sentence is dubious at best. AT BEST.
Any book that takes ten years to write is probably a disaster. Personally, I tend to believe this and suggest to people that if they’ve been suffering over a book for way too long that they ditch it and start again. JRR Tolkien would disagree (Lord of the Rings, 17 years). As would JD Salinger, Donna Tartt, Margaret Mitchell and Ezra Pound, who reputedly spent fifty-seven years writing The Cantos. Which yeah, yeah, is a work of genius we’re told, but still. Fifty-seven years? I don’t think so. (...)

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Finding Wonder in Your Writing

With Author, Tasha Suri

When I was still very small, every weekend I would grab my bike and meet my friend, and head to the local park. At that age, the park seemed humongous to me: vast, endless fields of green with steep hills that we’d ride up then race down, cycling faster and faster so that we’d hurtle forward at lightspeed. And at the far end of the park, beyond a wall of lacy, drooping willows, stood an emerald bridge. The bridge led, we both agreed, to a road that went to another world. I was obsessed with The Wizard of Oz then, and though the path wasn’t a yellow brick road, I was pretty sure I knew a magical road when I saw one...

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What do Editors Really Do?

With Editor, Lily Lindon

When I tell someone I’m a book editor, I can see their imagination bubble pop up: me, sitting alone in a dusty reading nook, wearing thick spectacles and a black polo neck, using angry, blood-red ink to scratch out split infinitives and misplaced semicolons.

Unfortunately, this is not quite true. Writers (understandably) spend a lot of time worrying about whether an editor will publish their book – but they don’t always know what that will entail at the other end. Like many creative industries, publishing can be impenetrable and opaque from the outside (and often from the inside, to be honest). I hope that giving you more information about what editors do will enlighten and empower you in the process of getting your book published – as well as humanise us editors a bit. (...)

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The Writing Group For Serious Writers

(That's a lot of fun!)

Writing Classes with Bestselling Authors

Drop into a writers' workshop, stop by our weekly story clinic or come with a glass of wine or a coffee to the Sunday writers' chats with the Founder. Our writing group is open 24/7 worldwide. Use our online workshop to develop your pitch or synopsis with our editorial team or get feedback on your first chapter from your fellow writers.

Find your tribe with our special writing groups for crime and suspense thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy, romance, historical fiction, young adult, children's fiction, literary fiction, women's fiction, and memoir.

Live sessions with world-class authors and literary agents run regularly. Catch up with the recorded masterclasses with authors like Louise Doughty and Mark Billingham. Our boxset includes David Nicholls, Jessie Burton, Val McDermid, Paula Hawkins, Rachel Edwards, Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley, Harriet Tyce, Mike Gayle and many more.

We are the home of happy writing.

NOW: Magic With Meg Rosoff – monthly masterclasses. SOON: Writing With Adele Parks - monthly plot-busting classes.

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Forthcoming Online Writing Classes with Authors and Literary Agents

Magic With Meg – Creative Thinking Master Classes Monthly.

Online writing classes with Katie Fforde

Katie Fforde 18 October

Online writing classes with literary agents

Juliet Mushens Literary Agent 1 Nov

Online writing classes with Piers Torday

Piers Torday 15 November

Evie Wylde 29 November

Online writing classes with Kendare Blake

Kendare Blake 13 December

Online writing classes with Rachel Joyce

Rachel Joyce 20 December

Diana Evans 3rd January

The “Life-Changing” Writing Courses

Discover why so many writers love The Novelry

“The Novelry has literally saved my life.”

“For the first time I feel like I can write and complete and publish a novel and it’s not some desperate pipe dream. The Novelry is not just a warm community of writers helping writers, but also a very detailed, informative, step by step (and I mean that literally) guide to writing a novel from start to finish. And it works! So wherever you are in your writing process, whether your a plotter or a pantser, there’s more than enough material in this course to get you through your writing process right to the very end.”

– Ngozi Amadi

“Life-changing.”

“What does life-changing mean? I could tell, about two weeks after starting the course, that something within me was surfacing and getting stronger. I'm becoming a different person, a stronger person, because of this course, getting the story down. It was breathtaking in the best of ways. I'm still reeling.”

– Matti Hicks

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“It has changed my life.”

“I have been a binge writer for over thirty years, committing thousands and thousands of words to projects I never saw through. Then I found The Novelry. I signed up to force myself to finish, thinking I'd done enough writing courses and not expecting to learn much more, but WOW a cornucopia of thought-provoking sessions and exercises that resulted in a first draft I never thought I'd ever be able to write. And, just as predicted, I really did quickly start to come to my writing with confidence and joy. It has changed my life because now I really do see myself as a writer and I am eternally thankful that I found The Novelry.”

– Lucy Barker