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Some say good writing can’t be taught. We disagree. While instruction alone won’t make you a great writer, it will take you a long way in that direction. At the heart of our mission is a firm commitment to quality creative writing instruction that encourages you to become more thoughtful and proficient as you explore your passion for the written word.

49 Writers offers workshops and courses for emerging and established writers outside the constraints of university tuition and academic credit. We offer no easy answers or gimmicks. Rather, we aim to deliver student-centered teaching structured around meaningful outcomes. We want you to delve deep into the mysteries of language, discovery, and expression. Good teaching, like good writing, develops through a life-long process of learning that includes evaluating our work, sharing ideas, and stretching ourselves – sometimes beyond our comfort zones.

We offer affordable creative writing classes across genres to writers at all levels—beginning, intermediate, and advanced. Whether you’re just starting out or have already published, you will find a topic on the 49 Writers schedule that meets your needs.

Course topics cover the gamut from craft, to serious revision, to special topics like spiritual writing or the literary uses of humor. We also offer practical training on the path to publication, promotion, social media, and more.

Some classes are offered as single three hour long short courses, while others meeting weekly for an extended period of time. Many of our classes are face to face, and some are taught online.

Our course offerings fit (more or less; we like to stay flexible) into one of three categories:

Elements Courses

These are generally 6 to 8 hours long. Elements courses include cross-genre topics like character, voice, narrative structure, point of view, description, beginnings, revision, and narrative time.

Genre-based Workshops

These typically run 12 to 15 hours. Workshops are by genre, alternating between fundamentals workshops for emerging writers (Fundamentals of Fiction, for example) and workshops exploring advanced techniques (such as Advanced Poetry Techniques). In workshops, students draft and revise within their genres.

Special Topics

These are normally covered in a single session of 2 or 3 hours. While we hope all of our courses are feisty and fun, our special topics courses are intended to be especially so, with an exploratory bent. We strive to balance our course offerings each term with regard to length, type, and genre

Evening and weekend scheduling is a top priority, and our students tend to prefer classes that last less than six weeks. In Anchorage, we’re likely to schedule two of each type (Elements, workshop, and special topics) per term, leaving room to add an impromptu course or two with visiting writers as opportunities arise.

Special course offerings: We supplement our regular instructional schedule with clinics by visiting writers. We regularly partner with groups bringing authors to Alaska; please contact us if you’re aware of a partnering opportunity. Courses taught by special arrangement with visiting writers do not go through our regular proposal selection process.

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Stokes Center for Creative Writing

The Stokes Center enhances the English department’s offerings in creative writing by sponsoring readings, lectures, forums, community projects, and other events that are free and open to the public. It also supports students through its undergraduate and graduate awards in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The Stokes Center is committed to fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and diverse writers' community on the Gulf Coast. 

For the latest news and information, please follow the Stokes Center on Facebook or Instagram ,  or contact the Director of Creative Writing, Dr. Charlotte Pence, at [email protected] .

Readings & Events

Hailed by NPR Music as "one of the most insurgent pieces of music you'll ever hear," No-No Boy is a collection of songs, films and stories from Julian Saporiti's doctoral research on Asian-American and transpacific history focusing on sound, music, immigration, refugees, and everyday life. On Thursday, March 14, Saporiti will bring this critically acclaimed multimedia project to the University of South Alabama's Student Center Ballroom for a free, public performance as part of a nationwide tour in support of the new No-No Boy album, Empire Electric (Smithsonian Folkways). There will be a catered reception and merchandise available for purchase at this event. 

Please note: This free event will be held in the Student Center Ballroom and is co-sponsored by the Departments of English, History, International Studies, Modern and Classical Languages and Literature, and the Center for the Study of War and Memory. For more information, contact Assistant Professor Caleb Johnson at [email protected] . PHOTO: Emilia Saporiti.

Acclaimed novelist Annie Hartnett is the author of Rabbit Cake (Tin House Books, 2017) and Unlikely Animals (Ballantine/Random House, 2022). Unlikely Animals was listed as one of the best books of 2022 by the Washington Post and BookRiot , and was long-listed for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Rabbit Cake was listed as one of Kirkus Reviews ' Best Books of 2017, was a finalist for the New England Book Award, and was long-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Hartnett has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library. She is co-host of the writing and parenting podcast Good Moms on Paper and is also an amateur cartoonist. In addition to her reading, she will also offer a free, hour-long writing class open to the general public.  

Please note: this free event will be held in the Student Center Terrace Room with a book signing and reception to follow.  PHOTO: Molly Haley.

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Past readings & events.

Award-winning author Percival Everett has published more than thirty books, including Dr. No , The Trees , Telephone , So Much Blue , I Am Not Sidney Poitier , and Erasure . Everett has won the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, the Dos Passos Prize, the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, The 2010 Believer Book Award, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, a Creative Capital Award, BS the Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Reviewers often cite his satirical brilliance and genre-defying work that expands our culture’s ways of thinking. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Everett is currently Distinguished Professor of English at University of Southern California. 

Please note: this free event will be held in the Student Center Ballroom with a book signing and reception to follow.

The University of South Alabama is proud to welcome our new Environmental Fellow/Writer-in-Residence, Ben Raines . He is an accomplished filmmaker and writer who recently published The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning (Simon & Schuster, 2023). Raines also wrote and directed The Underwater Forest , an award-winning film about the exploration of a 70,000-year-old cypress forest found off the Alabama coast as well as wrote and produced the documentary America’s Amazon.  Come meet Raines as we kick off his tenure at South!

Please note: this free event will be held in the McQueen Alumni Center with a book signing and reception to follow. PHOTO: Susan Raines.

Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones will share from her powerful books Magic City Gospel (Hub City Press, 2017), dark // thing (Pleiades Press, 2019), and REPARATIONS NOW! (Hub City Press, 2021). Her poetry has earned several awards, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. Featured on Good Morning America, ABC News, and the BBC, Jones lives in Birmingham where she teaches in the Creative Writing Department of the Alabama School of Fine Arts.

Please note: this free event will be held in the Student Center Ballroom with a book signing and reception to follow. PHOTO: Amarr Croskey.

T he daughter of Indian immigrants, Neema Avashia was born and raised in southern West Virginia. She has been an educator and activist in the Boston Public Schools since 2003, and was named a City of Boston Educator of the Year in 2013. Her first book, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place , was published by West Virginia University Press in March. It has been called "A timely collection that begins to fill the gap in literature focused mainly on the white male experience" by Ms. Magazine and "A graceful exploration of identity, community, and contradictions," by Scalawag.

Please note:  this free event will be held online.

As part of the English Department's Spring Series, celebrated experimental novelist Steve Tomasula will read from his most recent release, Ascension (University of Alabama Press, 2022). Incorporating narrative forms of all kinds—from comic books, travelogues, journalism or code to Hong Kong action movies or science reports—Tomasula’s writing has been called a "reinvention of the novel," combining an "attention to society in the tradition of Orwell, attention to language in the tradition of Beckett, and the humor of a Coover or Pynchon." His writing often crosses visual, as well as written genres, drawing on science and the arts to take up themes of how we represent what we think we know, and how these representations shape our lives. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and teaches in the creative writing program at Notre Dame.

Please note:  this free event, co-sponsored by the English Department and the Stokes Center for Creative Writing, will be held in the Marx Library Auditorium with a book signing and reception to follow.

Acclaimed fiction writer Dionne Irving will read from her latest short story collection, Islands , which explores colonialism, immigration, sexual discrimination, and class in the lives of Jamaican women who emigrate to London, Panama, France, Jamaica, and Florida.  Her other work includes the novel Quint , based on a real-life Canadian family of quintuplets who became celebrities in the 1940s, and the essays such as "Treading Water" and "Do You Like to Hurt?" which were Notable essays in Best American Essay 2017 and 2019. Irving will lead a creative writing class and provide a public reading.

Please note:  this free event will be held in the Student Center Terrace Room with a book signing and reception to follow.  PHOTO: Myriam Nicodemus.

Emily St. John Mandel is the author of six novels, most recently Sea of Tranquility . Her previous novels include Station Eleven , which was a finalist for a National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, winner of the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and aired as a limited series on HBO Max. Other books include The Glass Hotel , which was selected by President Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2020 and shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She lives in New York City. Mandel will lead a fiction writing class and provide a public reading during her time at the University of South Alabama.

Please note:  this free event will be held in the Student Center Ballroom with a book signing and reception to follow.  PHOTO: JiaHao Peng.

In March of 2022, Norton published Roger Reeves ’s latest poetry collection, Best Barbaria n. This breathtaking collection balances deep precision with a wide-ranging free association that tackles racism, immigration, climate change, love, and loss amid the backdrop of literary and musical touchstones such as Beowulf and the jazz musician Alice Coltrane. While a Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study this past year, his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine , and The New Republic . In addition to a private master class, Reeves will discuss his poetics with Stokes Center director Charlotte Pence and read some of his poetry in a public talk.

Please note:  this free event will be held in the Student Center Terrace Room.  PHOTO: Ana Schwartz.

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Writing Workshops

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Writing Workshops offer a nurturing environment in which writers learn more about the craft of writing. These classes are typically taught by widely published and award-winning authors. Workshop coordinators may list their guidelines at Submit Your Announcement.

Students: Do you love stories—writing them, watching them, dreaming them up? Have you written poems you’ve never shown anyone? Does the thought of reading a new book excite you more than just about anything else? Then these half-day camp are for you. Pick either the morning or afternoon session; these camps are perfect for mixing and matching with Alabama School of Fine Arts’ other half-day camps this week! In either session, ASFA’s award-winning Creative Writing faculty will introduce rising 6 – 12th grade students to the fundamentals of poetry and prose, offer generative prompts and provide constructive feedback. Other sessions include spoken word/slam poetry and filmmaking. Tuition includes a writing journal, an anthology of work created during the week, and a daily snack.

Contact: TJ Beitelman Chair, Creative Writing Department Alabama School of Fine Arts 1800 Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd. Birmingham, AL 35203 205.252.9241 x 2276 tjbeitelman@asfa.k12.al.us

Poets Tina Mozelle Braziel and Alicia Clavell conduct a poetry workshop for adults ages 18 and up at the main branch of the Birmingham Public Library . The workshop meets every 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in the 1st floor conference room. No registration is necessary. All levels of experience are welcomed in this supportive literary environment. The workshop is free and open to the public .

Tina Mozelle Braziel, a graduate of the University of Oregon MFA program in poetry, directs the Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her poetry has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Main Street Rag, Appalachian Heritage, The MacGuffin , and other journals. Her chapbook, Rooted by Thirst , is forthcoming from Porkbelly Press. She and her husband, novelist James Braziel, live and write in a glass cabin that they are building on Hydrangea Ridge.

Alicia K. Clavell is founder, editor, and publisher of Southern Women’s Review ( www.SouthernWomensReview.com ), an on-line and limited edition print journal. Clavell has been writing about life and style in the South for almost two decades—whether in the pages of Southern Living magazine or in her book by Rockport/Quarry press, Southern Kitchens and Dining Spaces . She is also a former Hackney Literary Award winner and a two-time winner of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Barkesdale-Maynard Poetry Prize. Clavell currently serves as an instructor and freelance writer/consultant for magazines and on-line venues.

For more information , contact Haruyo Miyagawa, Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place Birmingham AL 35203-2974, 205-226-3670, hm@bham.lib.al.us .

The Highlights Foundation offers workshops for children’s writers year round. See website for specific workshops & dates. http://www.highlightsfoundation.org/upcoming-workshops/

Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA) is a non-profit multidisciplinary artist residency facility located at 1414 Art Center Avenue, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 32168 . ACA organizes many programs for artists of all ages and professional levels. See website for more information .

Jim Frost, Co-Director / Residency jfrost@atlanticcenterforthearts.org www.aca35.org 386-427-6975, x16

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Creative writing is a time-honored and fascinating art form that captures the essence of human emotion, thoughts, and ideas, an area in which Mark Graham Communications excels. At its core, creative writing is a medium of self-expression where writers share their innermost thoughts and experiences. This diverse and dynamic genre of writing can have many unique forms that include fiction, poetry, memoirs, personal essays, plays, and screenplays. But what makes this powerful form of writing as beneficial as it is self-expressing?

The Benefits of Writing Creatively

Huntsville, Alabama area  creative writing can be used for several applications, not just weaving a compelling story. Writing in this style can help:

• Escape reality and immerse themselves in another world
• Allow readers and writers to understand themselves and the world around them better
• Explore complex emotions and experiences.

Writers can hone these skills as an outlet for imagination and creativity, encourage understanding and communication, and teach empathy by putting themselves in positions they have not been in.

Elements of Creative Literature

Employing various literary techniques and devices can help transform a story into a rich, imaginative tale that can captivate your audience. For example, using metaphors, similes, personification, and imagery can build vivid and memorable descriptions that bring your writing to life. At the same time, developing a strong structure and narrative arc will make readers invested in the outcome. Ultimately, creative writing for Huntsville, Alabama , is about developing a story that can help you connect with others, inspire change, and share powerful insights.

At the end of the day, creative writing near Huntsville, Alabama , is about expressing yourself and relating to your readers. Mark Graham Communications has been a go-to for professional ghostwriting and editing since 1992. With a team of talented writers and a number of ghostwriting credits in genres such as biographies, business books, screenplays, and more, we have the experience to help you grow as a creative writer. You can view our writing samples or request more information here.

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Arts Huntsville’s Creative Launchpad is inspiring today’s youth and tomorrow’s workforce. Founded in 2018 as a program of the Alabama Artistic Literacy Consortium funded by the Alabama State Council on the Arts, Creative Launchpad serves six school districts across the greater Huntsville metro area.

As an education partner of AmpUp Arts , Creative Launchpad’s vision is based on the belief that EVERY student in Alabama should have access to high-quality arts education that enlightens, inspires, and develops the creative and innovative thinking necessary to ensure college and career readiness.

In order to develop and promote creative and innovative thinkers, Creative Launchpad seeks to equip students, educators, families, and the community with the tools and resources needed to provide each student with quality arts instruction, arts experiences, and creative teaching across curriculum. 

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Mission AI - Arts Integration

What do you get when you combine a dynamic teaching artist with a dedicated classroom teacher? Deeper student learning and engagement across the curriculum. Arts integration units ensure that students master standards in both the core curriculum area and the selected arts discipline. Examples of Creative Launchpad AI missions include:

•   Creative Writing & Visual Arts – Students create comic book stories and characters using basic drawing techniques and character development models.
•   English & Drama – Students learn performance skills and stage combat techniques while creating their own scene adaptations from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
•   Science & Music Technology – Students produce music videos to showcase their knowledge of the periodic table.
•   Science & Music Performance – Students build cigar box guitars and receive introductory guitar lessons while studying sound and sound waves.
•   Science & Visual Arts – Students create cell models with clay and use stop-action animation techniques to replicate cell life cycles while studying plant and animal cells.
•   Science & Dance – Students explore concepts of movement and choreography while studying the muscular and skeletal systems of the body. 
• Social Studies & Music Technology – Students compose music and create songs and raps based on their research of ancient African civilizations and cultures.

CTS - Creative Teaching Strategies In The Classroom

When teachers use Creative Teaching Strategies, research shows that student engagement and academic learning increase. Creative Teaching Strategies are easy to learn techniques from all artistic disciplines – theatre, dance, music, and visual arts – that can be incorporated into lessons in any core subject. The Creative Launchpad offers school-based, district-level, and regional professional development to train educators to use these dynamic teaching tools.

Classroom Arts Mission Manual

The Launchpad’s 2022-23 Classroom Arts Mission Manual is a detailed guide to arts field trips, in-school performances, lecture demonstrations, and classes for students in grades PreK-12. The Mission Manual features programming from Huntsville-area arts organizations and teaching artists, and these arts education experiences include:

•   Arts Integration
• Arts Enhancement
• Arts Exposure
• Arts Competitions and Scholarships

Mission Specialist Application & Training

Creative Launchpad Mission Specialists provide arts-based learning to area students. We partner with local artists and arts organizations from all arts disciplines to provide training and professional development in a variety of instructional techniques. 

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Our YouTube Channel offers a variety of arts education videos highlighting current and past programs. Some videos provide at-home or virtual learning opportunities parents and teachers can use today, and other videos offer a first-hand look at Creative Launchpad programming in area schools.

Reading and Writing Courses in Huntsville, AL

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Whether you’ve decided to level up in your career, or you’re trying to learn reading and writing for the first time, ed2go is here to help you reach your professional goals. We offer many reading and writing courses and classes in Huntsville, AL and partner with colleges and universities from all over the state to make your learning experience as easy as possible. Looking to prepare for a certification online? Not to worry, there’s plenty of online reading and writing classes in Huntsville available.

Our courses are perfect for advancing your reading and writing skills. Students who complete these programs will be well-prepared to begin or advance their careers. Some of our most popular reading and writing courses in Huntsville include:

• Response To Intervention: Reading Strategies That Work
• Guided Reading: Strategies For The Differentiated Classroom

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A better future with more opportunities is just around the corner, so don’t wait a second longer. We value your time, so our courses are flexible and available online. With ed2go, you’ll gain new skills and credentials wherever and whenever you can — without putting a pause on your job or family. Enroll with ed2go today and take reading and writing courses near you in Huntsville.

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Alabama Resources for Writers

Here you’ll find a collection of resources for writers in Alabama, from conferences to local critique groups to literary magazines. If you’re looking for writing groups near you, writing workshops near you, creative writing classes near you, or simply a place to hang out with writers or submit your work, these are some Alabama organizations you might want to check out:

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For more than a decade, WriteByNight has helped writers in Alabama and beyond achieve their literary goals. And we want you to be next! Claim your free consultation  to learn about WBN’s customizable  one-on-one writers’ services , including:

Book Coaching :  If you’re writing a book and want some help along the way.

Manuscript Critique : If you’ve written a book and want a beta read, critique, or writing workshop.

Editing/Proofreading : If you’ve written a book and want someone to polish it for you.

Publication Assistance : If you’ve written a book and want help finding an agent or publisher.

Alabama Media Professionals

AMP is a statewide organization of professional communicators, including freelance journalists, both print and broadcast. Members meet monthly to exchange news about the communication industry, as well as to network and stay informed about the latest in media and journalism-related issues.

Alabama Writers’ Cooperative

One of the oldest continuing writers’ organizations in the United States. Writers, aspiring writers and supporters of the writing arts may join for sharing information, developing ideas, honing skills and receiving practical advice.

Alabama Writers’ Forum

Through a variety of partnerships, grants and memberships, the Alabama Writers’ Forum helps create opportunities for both writers and communities to come together to appreciate the importance of literature in everyday life.

Alabama Writers Symposium

Alabama’s premier event for those who love to read, presented by Alabama Southern Community College.

Birmingham Arts Journal

Publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry and artwork.

Black Warrior Review

Established in 1974 by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, Black Warrior Review publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art.

Mobile Writers Guild

The Mobile Writers Guild is an organization of professional writers and aspiring writers. Monthly meetings at 6 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month from September to May at the West Regional Library on Grelot Road.

NANO Fiction

A semi-annual literary magazine publishing flash fiction of 300 words or fewer.

storySouth ’s mission is to showcase the best fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry that writers from the new south have to offer. Special emphasis is given to finding and promoting the works of promising new writers.

Help us add to this list, Alabamians! Do you know of writing groups near you, writing workshops near you, creative writing classes near you, or an Alabama literary journal we should be aware of? Let us know here

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