Tell your story.
Is there a story inside you, waiting to be set free? Do you want to be a writer, but don't know where to begin? Then consider taking a writing course through Continuing Studies at UVic. Our Writing and Literature courses are taught by professional, well-respected authors who help to nurture your stories from idea to outline, and first draft to final product. Courses are offered in several different writing genres, including:
- storytelling
- literature
- writing for children
- memoir
- screenwriting
- poetry
- travel writing
- journalism
- fiction (short and long)
Chronicle the stories of your life, or create a whole new universe—the only limit is your imagination.
- A Short History of Vampires
- Chronicling the Stories of Your Life
- Comics and Graphic Novels Studio
- Creating Illustrated Children’s Books
- Creative Nonfiction: Writing from Everyday Life
- Creative Writing: The Writer's Craft
- Documenting Your Legacy of Wisdom
- Editing Your Words
- Editorial Design Studio
- Environmental Writing Workshop: Turning Knowledge into Feeling
- Fabulous Fiction
- From Journal to Story: Using Life Experience to Create Fiction
- Get Paid to Write What You Love
- How to Write Fast-Paced Novels
- Illustration Essentials
- Introduction to Adobe InDesign
- Memoir: How to Write Your Own Life Story
- Navigating the Novel
- Responsibilities and Reciprocity in the Place You are Now
- Romancing the Keyboard
- Screenwriting
- Screenwriting for Features, TV and Streaming Services
- Self-publishing Your Book
- Short Shorts
- Songwriting: An Introduction
- The Poetry Workshop
- Through a Woman's Lens: Writing with Photographs
- Write Now Again!
- Write Now! A Creative Writing Survey
- Write with Feeling!
- Writer's Bootcamp
- Writing a Memoir - Step by Step
- Writing and Publishing Fiction for Kids and Teens
- Writing for Children: Releasing the Child Within
- Writing for Children: Advanced
- Writing From Photographs
- Writing Historical Fiction
- Writing Words that Dance Across the Page
- Writing Your Sacred Story
Summer Arts Series
Annual summer arts series for professional and practicing artists, and UVic alumni.
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