Whether you’ve just started writing or already published, we’ve got the class for you.
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Online classes
Honing House offers regular online writing classes in small groups of 15 or fewer. We keep the classes small to ensure each student gets individual attention.
Each online class includes unlimited guidance via email and short zoom calls during its duration, and access to our Discord community.
Calendar
Two-Week Class: Revising your Prose
Revision is an art. It’s a part of the craft that amounts to 90% of the entire writing process.
But how can we approach revision in a way that’s creative, fun, and fills us with confidence as we edit our way towards (hopeful) perfection?
If you’re ever wondered how to revise that first draft, or wanted to learn advanced techniques for making a piece of writing publication ready, this class it for you.
This two-week course is just €200!
Four-Week Course: Make It Short—A Flash Fiction Class
Attention spans aren’t what they used to be. That’s why fiction is adapting.
Classified as a short story that is under 1000 words, flash fiction is a malleable, experimental form that has become all the rage in literary journals.
In this class we will examine the ultra short story and discover how concise language, and the use of fragment in prose, can be used to create prescient, lively work.
This four-week course is just €200!
Introduction to Fiction Writing—Seven-Week Summer Course
This seven-week course is aimed at writers who are looking to take their first steps into writing fiction. This class will cover the main components of fiction writing including character, point of view, and shape, and will offer several generative exercises.
This seven-week course is just €300!
Turning the Private Into the Public: A Fiction(ish) Seminar
Are you a prolific journal writer? Do you have tons of notes and scribbles? Have you ever wanted to turn this personal writing into something ready for publication?
This one-day masterclass is for you! Just €150 for the session.
Introduction to Fiction Writing—Seven-Week Spring Course
This seven-week course is aimed at writers who are looking to take their first steps into writing fiction. This class will cover the main components of fiction writing including character, point of view, and shape, and will offer several generative exercises.
This seven-week course is just €300.
Introduction to Fiction Writing
This class is aimed at writers who are looking to take their first steps into writing fiction. Are you interested in what the basic elements of a fictional story are? Don’t know where to begin?
This class will cover the main components of fiction writing including character, point of view, and shape, and will offer several generative exercises.
Honing House Literary Salon Accountability Program
Need help finding motivation to write, pitch, or submit your work? Each week, Honing House will host a two hour literary salon over on Discord, and in person at our Bos en Lommerplantsoen location.
This salon is an opportunity for us, as a community, to find markets for our work, brainstorm on pitches, submit, and act as each other’s cheerleaders.
Best of all, it’s free.
Three-week online class | Finding the right perspective
Telling a story well is all about finding the right perspective. In this class we’ll look at various ways perspective is used in fiction, how different techniques create drastically different effects, and how you can use perspective in your work to create impactful stories.
Four-week online class | Finding your voice by writing what you know
Writing what you know is one of those writing truisms we’ve all heard at some point or another. Some people take is as an ultimatum—that you can only write about the things you’ve experienced personally. Really, writing what you know is about listening to that voice inside yourself called belief, and letting that voice spill onto the page. In this class, we’ll focus on how to write what we know, and how writing what we know allows us to find our true voice.
Two-week class | Know the rules so you can break them: the basic tenets of fiction
We all know what a basic story is. But for the fiction writer just getting started, knowing what elements of basic craft are involved in creating a story can be a bit overwhelming. If you’re just getting started writing fiction and want to get up to speed on the basics of story shape, perspective, characters, and more, this is the class for you. (Online and in-person.)
Beginner short story class (Amsterdam class) €200 — 15 Seats available
In this class, you will learn how elements of craft can be put together to create your first short story. This class is suitable for writers who want to jump feet first into the writing process.
At MOMA&CO Amsterdam every Thursday evening, June 9 - June 30 · 19:00 - 20:30 (CET)
Beginner short story class (Online class) €200 — 15 Seats available
In this class, you will learn how elements of craft can be put together to create your first short story. This class is suitable for writers who want to jump feet first into the writing process.
Online every Tuesday evening, April 26 - May 17 · 19:00 - 20:30 (CET)
Beginner short story class (Amsterdam class) €200 — 15 Seats available
In this class, you will learn how elements of craft can be put together to create your first short story. This class is suitable for writers who want to jump feet first into the writing process.
At MOMA&CO Amsterdam every Thursday evening, April 28 - May 19 · 19:00 - 20:30 (CET)
Beginner short story class (Online class) €200 — 15 Seats available
In this class, you will learn how elements of craft can be put together to create your first short story. This class is suitable for writers who want to jump feet first into the writing process.
Online every Tuesday evening, April 26 - May 17 · 19:00 - 20:30 (CET)
Amsterdam course: Find your creative spark — An introduction to story writing €50
This class is for anyone who has ever wanted to write a story, but doesn’t know where to start. What makes a good story? How does a story take shape?
In this two-hour class you’ll learn how catch ideas and develop them into the outline of your first story.
Online Course: Find your creative spark — An introduction to story writing €50
This class is for anyone who has ever wanted to write a story, but doesn’t know where to start. What makes a good story? How does a story take shape?
In this two-hour class you’ll learn how catch ideas and develop them into the outline of your first story.
Tips and tricks for applying to an MFA writing program (Online class) €60
Are you a writer interested in applying for an MFA in writing, but don’t know where to start? In this class I’ll share what to look for in an MFA program, how to decide which program might be a good fit for you, ways to receive funding, and tips for your application.
Online Saturday, March 12 · 18:00 - 20:00 (CET)
Your first story (Online class) €200 — 15 Seats available
In this class, you will learn how elements of craft can be put together to create your first short story. This class is suitable for writers who want to jump feet first into the writing process.
Online every Wednesday evening, February 23 - March 7 · 19:00 - 20:30 (CET)