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Story writing courses for all levels. We are an Edinburgh based online creative writing school offering novel writing, short story writing, magazine writing and general fiction writing using an interactive online conferencing programme. The classes are for the beginner to the more experienced writer. The aim of the school is to encourage and help develop story writing techniques in all who attend our classes. Please follow the links at the top of this page to find out more about us.

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Marianne Wheelaghan's crime thriller
Food of Ghosts is a Blackwell's BESTSELLER.

Marianne Wheelaghan's new book Food of Ghosts is being launched on the 8th November, 2012 at Blackwell’s Book Shop, Edinburgh.

On Saturday afternoon, 20th of October, Marianne is delighted to be going to Corstorphine Library to talk about the writing of The Blue Suitcase. Corstorphine Library 12 Kirk Loan, EH12 7HD 0131 529 5506 contact: Stephen Shiels

Marianne will be part of Wester Hailes Library’s Crystal Jubilee celebrations, marking fifteen years of being open! She will be talking about the inspiration behind the writing of The Blue Suitcase, and chatting a little bit about my debut crime novel Food of Ghosts. When: Wednesday, the 17th October, 2012 from 6.30 to 7.30 Where: Wester Hailes Library, 1 West Side Plaza, EH14 2ST, Edinburgh For more details contact Dinae Yule at Wester Hailes Library on Diane.Yule@edinburgh.gov.uk

Marianne is looking forward to talking about the inspiration behind the writing of The Blue Suitcase, and chatting a little bit about Food of Ghosts at Stockbridge Library*, Edinburgh on the 3rd October, 2012 at 7-8pm.

Monday, 10th September, Stirling Off The Page Book Festival 2012. Writingclasses Director Marianne Wheelaghan is looking forward to discussing The Blue Suitcase with the book groups at Doune Library, Stirling at 7.30 pm, as part of the wonderful Stirling Off The Page Book Festival 2012

St Andrew’s and St George’s West at Festival Time (Aug 2012) On the 17th Marianne Wheelaghan will be talking about The Blue Suitcase at the Shandwick Place Building (between 2 pm – 3.30pm). There will be refreshments! Be lovely to see you there.

Monday, 17th September, Stirling Off The Page Book Festival 2012. Writingclasses Director Marianne Wheelaghan is looking forward to discussing The Blue Suitcase with the book groups at Doune Library, Stirling at 7.30 pm, as part of the wonderful Stirling Off The Page Book Festival 2012

New courses, Novel Writing 2 and Poetry I, are starting this September. Details are now on our web site.

New Short Story Competition. Deadline for entry is October 30th 2012.

Our tutor Natalie Scot will be reading at Middlesbrough Literary Festival 2012 on Tuesday 19th of June at the Central Library 6.30 - 7pm.

Marianne will be talking about being a writer from Leith to the Leith Rotary Club on the 19th April at 7pm.

Marianne will be speaking about The Blue Suitcase, her remarkable debut novel, at Crawley's Festival of Words - WORDfest - on Saturday 31st of March.

BERTH, written by our writingclasses tutor Natalie Scott, has its PREMIER on the 13th and 14th of April 2012. BERTH is a collection of dramatic stories commemorating the centenary of Titanic. Well done Natalie!

2012 marks ten years of writingclasses.co.uk creative writing courses.

(18/12/11) The Blue Suitcase is ranked in Top Six under "Family relationships" on the Amazon UK Kindle site.

The Blue Suitcase is a staff recommended Christmas Read in Waterstones West End store in Edinburgh.

Writingclasses student wins the 2011 Hay-on-Wye Short Story writing competition!

Our fees/sign up now

Our courses start from UK £175 payable in advance. Sign up today by credit card via Paypal. Follow the payment procedure below. If you want to pay by cheque or bank transfer, please contact Marianne who will send you the details you need and provisionally hold your place on your preferred course.

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In order to pay you must create a Paypal account, this process only takes a few minutes, or you may already be registered with Paypal.

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Writingclasses is celebrating 10 years of online teaching.

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£5 from Pilrig Press . £2 from Amazon kindle . "The Blue Suitcase" by Marianne Wheelaghan

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