Season of Storytelling
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Learn
Explore, build, and hone your creative process so that you can accomplish your creative dreams! These two approachable and actionable courses will guide you through discovering your creative self and developing a process unique to you and your life.
Identifying Your Creative Heartbeat
A self-paced mini-course for aspiring storytellers
The secret to creative success is not time, money, education, or “talent.” The secret to creative success is process.
All successful creatives have a tried-and-true but adaptable creative process that is unique to them. What’s your process?
Identifying Your Creative Heartbeat is a self-paced, activity-based course that will help you develop a creative process by thinking through who you are as a creative person. Five engaging lessons and accompanying worksheets will give you tangible takeaways you can put into practice immediately! Learn more and register here.
Cultivating Your Writing Mindset
A must-take course for writers about to start a big project
The goal behind this course is to help you overcome creative blocks and take your first step toward making your dream project a reality.
During this 31-day course, we’ll take a deep dive into the blocks that have been standing in the way between you and creating the project of your dreams. And while you might not finish that project during the course (that depends a lot on how big your project is!), you will make progress on your project. And progress, as we’ll discover together, is what it’s all about. Learn more and register here.
Join our free fantasy book club, Bibliopothecary, and learn how to read and analyze popular fiction through the lens of authorship.
👈 These two epic novels round out our 2025 reads
Write
Put your creative process into practice with our writing courses, free creative challenges, and publishing opportunities. Develop your stories step-by-step with guidance and a supportive global creative community.
100% free creative community challenges
Short Story September
September 1-30, 2025
#StoCoFanfic Challenge
October 16-31, 2025
Registration opens late September
November Worldbuilding
November 1-30, 2025
Registration opens mid October
Foundational genre fiction courses
Write Your First Gothic Romance
Write Your First Gothic Romance is a five-lesson activity-based course designed to give you an overview of the basic elements of mid-century gothic romance fiction, along with tips and techniques for crafting a moody, suspenseful tale.
At the end of this course, you'll apply what you've learned to outline—and then write—a 3,000-word short story in the style of classic gothic romances.
🥀 Learn more and register here.
Write Your First Sword & Sorcery Story
Write Your First Sword & Sorcery Story is a five-lesson activity-based course designed to give you an overview of the basic elements of classic sword & sorcery fiction, along with tips and techniques for crafting an atmospheric, action-packed tale.
At the end of this course, you'll apply what you've learned to outline—and then write—a 3,000-word short story in the style of classic sword & sorcery fiction.
⚔️ Learn more and register here.
Take your novel from idea to draft
Want to make progress on your novel before the end of 2025?
There is still time to join our novel-writing mentorship program, Write Your Novel Already! Get hands-on support for your writing, including a tailored game plan and roadmap to turn your book from an idea into a draft!
This program ends on December 31 so don’t miss out! Learn more here.
Read
Curl up by the fire with a mug of something warm and a sumptuous collection of stories or poems written by our talented global creative community and published by our official imprint, Scribemind Books. Order by November 24 to receive the books by Christmas!
New titles coming soon to DriveThruFiction
A Southern Gothic fiction anthology edited by Insha Fitzpatrick
Featuring work by Rebecca McQueen, Haley Prager, Lauren Wills, Michael Sheppard, Leslie "XPLovecat" Horn, Andrew Sammler, Kristin Tørfoss, Casper, Jacob Steinbauer, Edward Crawford, J.J. Murphy, Sarah Wofford, Jason Fuhrman, George Sanders, Tor War, and Justin Partridge. Cover illustrated by Aya Francisco.
Available in print and digital on October 31, 2025
Two new installments of our annual flash fiction and poetry anthologies:
In a Flash Volume III
Collective Verses Volume V
Available in print and digital on September 3, 2025
Shop all STORYTELLING COLLECTIVE anthologies
Flash fiction and poetry
Gothic romance and sword & sorcery
It’s back to school storytelling time
Sport your love for all things story with official Storytelling Collective merch, including our Season of Storytelling 2025 exclusive new drop, the Storyteller Varsity Tee (available in three colors).
Plus, cozy embroidered hoodies, a mug to fill with something warm for those late-night writing sessions, a deskmat gaming or creativity, and more.
Order early to get your swag before the holidays!
