The Creative Writing School
with Publishing Professionals
Recommended by the World’s Leading Literary Agencies
With more five-star reviews than any other online creative writing courses
Finish Your Book Faster With Courses, Coaching and Community
Have you got a book in you, but you’re not sure where to start? Do you struggle with plotting and structure? How do you break into the publishing world anyway? If only writing was just about the writing! Becoming a published author is not so much about your writing style, life experience or contacts; it’s about storytelling.
We put story first with our unique approach to writing fiction.
Whether you are a complete beginner or a seasoned writer, if you would like the confidence to write a book that readers will love, our online creative writing courses will power you through the writing process all the way to The End. Our team offer a wealth of publishing expertise as award-winning, bestselling authors and experienced editors from the Big Five major publishing houses.
What’s more, we can help you get a world-class literary agent to see you through to publishing contracts and into the bookstores.
You’ll enjoy happy writing with our live classes and coaching. Come for the courses, stay for the community!
Courses
Learn world-class creative writing skills with the self paced courses created by a Booker Prize-listed award winning author.
Coaching
Develop your story with one-to-one coaching sessions with bestselling authors.
Community
Join the lively worldwide writing community for online writing classes and guest events.
Feedback
Get in-depth and comprehensive feedback on your writing from publishing professionals.
Publishing Editors
Prepare for publishing with professional editors formerly of Penguin Random House other major publishing houses.
Literary Agents Fast-track
Secure world-class literary agency representation with our fast-track submission service.
Courses
Your courses are fully online with exciting lessons, directed writing tasks, and step-by-step guidance delivered by text, video and downloads on a beautiful learning platform. You’ll learn how to write a compelling story using a broad range of creative writing techniques and the creative writing process of famous authors. You’ll get time-saving shortcuts and tools to help you plan and plot your novel and our interactive learning platform means we keep track of your progress as you write with our one-hour-a-day method.
Get your words flowing with the inspirational creative writing courses created and directed by Booker-listed author, Louise Dean.
Choose your courseCoaching
To accompany your course plan, you’ll work closely with a successful bestselling published author to reach your creative writing goals in one to one live coaching sessions devoted to you and your story. Think of it as a once-in-a-lifetime apprenticeship.
Unlike other creative writing courses, we don’t workshop your novel or offer it up for peer-group critique at first draft, saving you time and setbacks. The development of your story will happen within a relationship of trust and expertise.
Your writing coach will help you with plot and character development to put the building blocks of your story in place step by step and keep you motivated and supported while you finish your first draft. Then, you’ll work with publishing editors formerly of the world’s major publishing houses to raise your story to publishing standards for submission to our literary agency partners.
Choose your writing coach
Community
You’ll find yourself warmly welcomed into a safe and supportive space to write in good company. Sign up for our live creative writing classes and join live events every week. Enjoy sessions with publishing industry professionals to get the inside track on the fiction market today. All part of a lively program of writing classes with a friendly online community of writers in every time zone. Where writing is serious fun, daily.
Explore our vast collection of creative writing resources and recorded writing classes with famous authors at our Catch Up TV area. Watch masterclasses with the big names of fiction like Meg Rosoff, Paula Hawkins, Sophie Kinsella, David Nicholls, Jessie Burton, Tess Gerritsen, Val McDermid, Kristen Hannah and so many more.
Your communityCreative Writing Success Stories at The Novelry
Loved by writers, The Novelry is the home of happy writing with the world’s favourite creative writing courses.
Becky Hunter
Atlantic imprint Corvus has signed One Moment, the ‘heart-wrenching and uplifting’ debut novel by Becky Hunter.
US rights were sold to Grand Central, Hachette, in a significant six-figure two-book pre-empt while German rights have gone to Droemer Knaur in a four-way auction. Publishing director Sarah Hodgson at Corvus acquired UK and Commonwealth rights as part of a two-book deal.
Rebecca Ley
Rebecca Ley is the author of two novels published by Orion, Hachette.
‘Wonderfully assured.’ The Times
‘Pass the tissues...’ Evening Standard
‘Beautifully written.’ The Sun
‘Prepare for heartbreak.’ Woman & Home
‘Brilliant.’ Bella
Rashmi Sirdeshpande
Rashmi Sirdeshpande is the author of eight books for children. She was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2022 and voted one of The Times Best Books of 2020.
‘Rashmi Sirdeshpande is a lawyer who became a children’s author and she has a talent for taking the big subjects and making them accessible to young readers.’ The BookBag Blog
‘Essential reading for young people.’ BookTrust
Recommended by World-Class Literary Agencies
The fast track to get you published.
Our creative writing course program offers an onward journey for the writer seeking a career as a published author. We offer a carefully planned submissions process to achieve literary agency representation for our writing course graduates. We are the creative writing course recommended by the world-class literary agencies who work with the Big Five major publishers.
Our partner literary agencies represent bestselling and award-winning authors like Philip Pullman, Michael Ondaatje, Hilary Mantel, Marilynne Robinson, Madeleine Miller, Celeste Ng, Gail Honeyman, Richard Osman, Paula Hawkins, J.M Coetzee, Jacqueline Wilson and many more famous names.
When you sign up for The Finished Novel Course we can take you all the way through to representation with our carefully managed submissions process for our creative writing course graduates.
