Fit learning around your life

Challenging courses

For serious writers

Welcome to the UK’s first online education company dedicated to writing and communications courses and training.

Whether you are an individual or an organisation, our unique learning platform, specialist educators, learning designers and practitioner-tutors will ensure you have a really effective and fun experience, learning by doing to take your skills to the next level.

Explore our online courses, discover how we can develop training for your organisation, or get in touch to find out more.

more than 5,000 satisfied students
12 years delivering to universities, publishers, corporates and talent-development agencies
84% course completion rate

Updates

Following great feedback from the London Book Fair, you can now DOWNLOAD OUR 2019/20 COURSE PROSPECTUS, with added writing tips and testimonials.
Writer Mina Zaher explains to her readers why she is taking a romantic writing online course with the Professional Writing Academy – read her blog here.
Course director and narrative expert John Yorke consults on the BBC Radio 4 series THE CORRECTIONS, revealing how journalism often follows standard storytelling conventions. Tune in on BBC Sounds.
Congratulations to Faber Academy alumna Louise Morrish, who has won the Daily Mail First Novel Competition. The prize includes a £20,000 advance and publishing contract with Penguin Random House. Her novel, THE COFFIN CLUB, combines wartime memories, old age and murder.
We are delighted to sponsor four free places for low income and under-represented writers at this year’s Writer’s Day at Salisbury Literary Festival.
Congratulations to Faber Academy course alumni Awais Khan – his debut novel IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS will be published in July by Book Guild Publishing Ltd 🍾📚
Huge congratulations to Faber Academy course alumna Hannah Persaud 🍾📚 – her ‘wonderfully compelling and acutely observed’ debut novel THE CODES OF LOVE will be published in February 2020 by Muswell Press.
CONGRATULATIONS to our co-director, Susannah Marriott, on the launch of her new book, THE LONGEVITY BIBLE, published by Godsfield Press. The definitive guide to a long, healthy and happy life is available now.
What’s it like to be a student on our online writing courses? Alumna Kiirar Hosair explains why she joined a year-long course and what she got from the experience: deadlines, focus, resilience, a support network… not to mention an agent.
Big congratulations to our Director of Fiction Tom Bromley – announced as an Unsung Hero of Publishing 2018, the award for inspiring publishing experts engineering the future of books.
PODCAST What’s happening in the world of crime fiction? What are agents looking for? What is a high concept thriller?
Guest author on our online Crime Writing course Sam Blake answers these questions and more. Listen here
Listen to Therapeutic Writing and Running Writing Groups Course Director Victoria Field‘s short story Swimming Lessons broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
CONGRATULATIONS to alumna Jo Cannon, whose follow-up to the runaway success of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep – Three Things About Elsie – was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018, the most prestigious annual award for books written by a woman.
We all appreciate the benefits of attending a writing group, but running a successful one can be hard. Have a look at our new course, which holds your hand as you research, plan and launch a new writing group. Read Co-course Director Anne Taylor’s advice on running a workshop
Many congratulations to Professional Writing Academy tutor Emily Barr, whose young adult novel The One Memory of Flora Banks has been nominated for a Carnegie medal 2018 ‘for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.’ Her next novel The Truth and Lies of Ella Black will be published on 11 January.
“It’s never too late”, says Faber Academy alumna Keziah Frost who sold her debut novel at 60. The Reluctant Fortune-Teller will be published in March by Harper Collins/Harlequin/Park Row Books in the US. Keziah developed the story on the Writing a Novel course with Tom Bromley. Keep up with Keziah’s progress on her blog.