Ready for authentic connection with writers like you? Log in for support and conversation in a writing community you’ll love. Find a writing partner and enjoy daily writing prompts, feedback, and monthly workshops that help you grow as a writer. Be more productive! Join co-writing sessions, work with guest mentors, discover what other writers are reading, share your work in our live readings, and more.
Find your writing community.
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Do you dream of writing but don’t know where to start? This is your path to becoming a good writer. Learn craft, style, and technique, and make your writing more meaningful. The Story Course is our foundational program, and helps you write in a new and better way, using emotion, description, self-care, and courage. This is a self-paced program that teaches you how to become a writer without a degree. Recommended for all writers.
Start writing now. Registration always open.
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Is this the year you fully step into your identity as a writer? My classic five-month program brings the fundamentals of whole-minded writing practice into a serious curriculum, with the mentorship, deadlines, and accountability you need to succeed. Work intimately with a mentor and small writing group to transform your relationship to yourself as a writer. You’ll understand the tools of writing craft in an embodied way that you can never unlearn, write confidently in any genre, and bring more joy into your creative work.
Step into your writing life.
Aug 25, 2025 to Jan 9, 2026.
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We welcome people of all identities, races, abilities, and interests. We share an inclusive, generous, and heart-centered point of view, and are committed to cultivating a culture of empathy and insight.
We believe in the transformative power of creativity and that writing is a contemplative practice.
Our teachers are knowledgeable and skilled in teaching the nuances of craft. They’re not just successful writers, they’re also past students. They have been where you are and can help guide you through our programs.
You can enjoy our programs from home, or wherever feels most comfortable. But that doesn’t mean you’re left on your own. In our discussion forums and small classrooms, you can get the support and engagement you need.
Sarah Selecky has been a writer since she was five years old. Her collection of short stories, This Cake Is for the Party, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book in Canada and the Caribbean and was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her novel, Radiant Shimmering Light, was optioned by Amy Adams for a premium one-hour television series with HBO. In 2011, she created the Sarah Selecky Writing School, now a creative community of over 10,000 writers from around the world. Her book, Story Is a State of Mind:Writing and the Art of Creative Curiosity, is a guide to help writers strengthen their inner resources in service of a limitless writing practice. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
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e’ve been offering vibrant online creative writing programs since 2010. Our holistic approach teaches writers how to cultivate a trust in mystery as they learn their craft, so they can have a healthy and happy professional writing life.
We believe that skill comes from study and practice, that magic happens when we create, and that our writing thrives when we are part of a supportive community.
