South Carolina-based group for Christian writers publishes a newsletter, refers members to literary agents and answers contract questions.

Find online workshop forums and message boards for posting and critiquing written work, including poetry, essays, fiction, and humor.

Learn joke writing and performance skills from this workshop, held in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

University of Calgary's writer in residence program for Canadian and international writers. Selection criteria and previous award winners..

Features background on this community for writers, along with information about retreats and programs.

Resource for playwrights includes discussions of format, structure, and the business aspects of writing. From Virginia Commonwealth University.

Introduces the programs run by this Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based center, which caters to those interested in writing for pleasure or work.

Jack Lynch lists pedagogical resources for creative-writing instructors. Find out about rhetoric, style, mechanics, writers groups and copyright.

Los Angeles-based storytelling and screenwriting class. Learn about the awards students have won and get enrollment details.

Canadian company promotes its writing classes, email tutorials and manuscript-evaluation services.

Online workshop for all writers, regardless of whether they are published or not, who work in any field or genre. Includes a chat room.

Offers an overview of the history of this urban writers colony in New York City, plus membership guidelines.

Contains a list of writers colonies throughout the United States.

Find a description of this writers retreat in the Ozarks.

Presents these pay-for-use tutoring and editing classes and workshops led by experienced, published writers.

Offers comprehensive fiction, memoir, playwriting, and poetry writing courses online and in New York City. Private instruction and teen classes are also available.