Writing Courses

Non-fiction Writing & Publishing Course

Develop your 'real world' writing skills

Non-fiction writing covers an almost infinite spectrum of subjects and styles, from biographies, newspaper articles and letters to speeches, reports and historical writing.

Our Non-fiction Writing course will help you to develop the confidence to take on any non-fiction writing project. You'll learn how to plan your project effectively and discover ways of using research and interviews to reinforce your ideas.

As well as strengthening your research and writing skills, this course will introduce you to the business aspects of working as a writer, covering the important topics of marketing, publishing and selecting an agent.

What you will learn

  • Collaborating, ghostwriting and self-publishing
  • Research and interviews
  • Editing and polishing your work
  • Selling your work: query letters, proposals, copywriting tricks
  • Where to from here?
  • The wide, wide world of non-fiction
  • Developing your ideas
  • Planning your book
  • Anecdotes and quizzes
  • Writing articles
  • Writing for the internet
  • The youth market

Career prospects

The skills you develop during this course will benefit anyone who works with words as a part of their job. Sound writing and research skills are transferrable across a broad range of professions.

Potential careers in non-fiction writing include:

  • Author
  • Copywriter
  • Journalist