
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.
- Chronicling the Stories of Your Life
- Contemporary Theatre: Reading Award-Winning Canadian Plays
- Crafting a Compelling Book Proposal
- Create Attention-Grabbing Query Letters
- Creating Illustrated Children’s Books
- Creative Nonfiction: Writing from Everyday Life
- Creative Writing: The Writer's Craft
- Dancing With Jane Austen
- Documenting Your Legacy of Wisdom
- Editing Your Words
- 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 a How-to Book
- How to Write Fast-Paced Novels
- Illustration Essentials
- Into the Woods with German Myths and Fairy Tales
- 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
- Starting Right in Screenwriting
- The Art of Adaptation for Screen
- The Golden Age of the English Detective Novel
- The Playwriting Workshop
- The Poetry Workshop
- Through a Woman's Lens: Writing with Photographs
- Victorian Retellings of Viking Mythology: A Mythological Makeover
- Where Shall Wisdom be Found
- Women Travellers Throughout the Ages
- Write Now Again!
- Write Now! A Creative Writing Survey
- Writer's Bootcamp
- Writing a Memoir - Step by Step
- Writing Flash Nonfiction
- 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

Peninsula Pursuits
Peninsula Pursuits courses generally take place at the Mary Winspear Centre and focus on the interests of the people who live and work in the community.
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Summer Arts Series
Annual summer arts series for professional and practicing artists, and UVic alumni.
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