Elizabeth Ayres Center For Creative Writing

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read moreFounded in 1990 by award-winning writer and former NYU workshop leader Elizabeth Ayres as a series of in-person gatherings in her home, the Center for Creative Writing went online in 2000. Ayres expanded the Center's offerings and teachers in 2014; and in April 2017, Ayres retired and appointed one of those teachers, Stacia Fleegal, to assume directorship. Fleegal continues the Center's mission to offer affordable, accessible, inspiring online writing courses for anyone who wants to write, in a community of inclusion and support, not criticism and competition.

read moreThe Center for Creative Writing offers year-round online writing courses in six-week sessions designed to help you get to the page and thrive there. We believe writing is for anyone, and that teaching "how to write" is as much about craft and content as it is about getting to know your unique creative process so you can create a fruitful and sustainable practice. Many of our students have only just named themselves writers. Some are returning to creative impulses after long careers in other fields, and many more at all stages of life are awakening to a call to connect, to tell their stories and record their truths, whether for themselves or for an audience, in their own way.