Learn to write creatively for a range of areas including poetry, scripts, biographies, children's writing, genre writing, short story writing and non-fiction writing for the self-help market. The Creative Writing course teaches you simple techniques that writers use to recycle basic ideas for use across many different areas. As a writer you can make extra money from associated activities like workshops and author visits to schools/bookshops...learn more

Crime, Mystery and Suspense Writing

Want to have readers sitting on the edge of their seats in suspense? You will learn to develop ideas, create interesting characters, use conflict and develop tension in your stories...learn more

Editing and Proofreading

Editing and proofreading is a highly marketable skill. The publishing industry, book companies, government departments, printing companies and businesses mainly use freelance editors and proofreaders to review the thousands of novels and non-fiction volumes published every year. The Editing and Proofreading course caters to those who wish to increase his or her skills. The beauty of this career is that it will never become obsolete; people will always need proofreaders...learn more

Entertainment and Show Business Writing

The entertainment and show business writing industry is a booming industry as more and more people become interested in the lives of the famous. With the Entertainment and Show Business Writing course you will attain a cross foundation of the knowledge and skills required of a Journalist in this industry...learn more

Fantasy and Science Fiction Writing

Learn the crucial steps necessary to become a successful fantasy and science fiction Writer. The Fantasy and Science Fiction Writing course is designed to get the best out of you as a writer, and will have you writing stories that will take your readers to fantasy worlds without getting up from their seat...learn more

Freelance Journalism

This course offers you a unique opportunity to develop your career as a professional journalist. The Freelance Journalism course has been designed to provide you with the professional skills required to succeed as a freelance journalist in today's world...learn more

Freelance Sports Writer & Photographer

Getting paid for watching and participating in sport, interviewing sporting personalities, going behind the scenes, as well as a good chance of domestic and international travel. Sound like nice work if you can get it? Well now you can! The Freelance Sports Writing and Photography course is designed for those who take their sport very seriously and who want to take their interest to a professional level. The Freelance Sports Writing and Photography course has been designed to provide you with the professional skills required to develop your career as a sports writer and/or photographer...learn more

Freelance Travel Writer & Photographer

Travel writers and photographers often enjoy great professional benefits such as entry into travel shows, travel promotional events, etc. The Freelance Travel Writer & Photographer course will help you discover that your journalism skills can also be used in other areas including of media public relations, news journalism and even radio and television. The Freelance Travel Writing and Photography course offers one of the few remaining opportunities for individual freedom, self-expression and financial gain. As a freelancer in this industry, your skills can take you around the world...learn more

Health & Fitness Magazine Writing

The Health & Fitness Magazine Writing course will teach you how to write interesting articles for newspapers, magazines and other media. This course combines the elements of journalism with the specialist knowledge required to write for this market...learn more

Journalism

The ICI journalism course has been designed in association with experienced journalists and teaches you the skills that you need to succeed quickly and conveniently. The ICI journalism course offers you a unique opportunity to develop a full-time or part-time career as a professional journalist with a variety of establishments including newspapers, magazines, radio stations, Public relations, publicity or advertising agencies or you may wish to work as an independent freelance journalist...learn more

Non-Fiction Writing and Publishing

The Non-fiction writing covers a broad range of subjects spanning from biographies, newspaper articles, ghost writing, letters, speeches and historical writing. The Non-Fiction Writing course was designed to give you the necessary knowledge to tackle any non-fiction writing project...learn more

Photography

The ICI photography course has been designed in consultation with the photography industry and teaches you the skills that you need to succeed quickly and conveniently. One of the most exciting aspects of photography is the variety of jobs available in the field, ranging from highly specialized, technical work to jobs that require creativity. As a graduate of photography you will find yourself in such areas as Press photography (also known as news photojournalism), Feature photography, Editorial photography, Commercial/Industrial photography, Portrait / wedding photography, Advertising photography, Fashion photography, Digital photography, Nature and Wildlife Photography, Forensic Photography, Freelancing photographer...learn more

Professional Business Writing

The Professional Business Writing course covers all aspects of business writing including feature writing, speech writing, writing marketing letters that sell, writing legal documents and letters, public relations writing methods and much more...learn more

Professional Children's Writing

The Professional Children's Writing course will develop your skills to write interesting, convincing books for children. Learn in every detail how to write for children of all ages: teen fiction, non-fiction, storybooks (9-12 year olds), early readers (6-8 year olds) and picture books - see the world from a child's point of view. You will gain the inside knowledge and skills to reasonably expect to be plotting and producing children's novels, books and short stories for publication. By the time you master the craft, you will have reached a level of skill where you can competently develop and write for children...learn more

Professional Freelance Journalism

More and more local and international newspapers and magazines are relying largely, if not exclusively, on freelance journalists for their material. As a freelance journalist you can work from home on a full-time or part-time basis. Or you can make freelance writing a profitable sideline to your current field of employment. There is an enormous range of related and lucrative freelance areas including commercial, public relations, newsletters, company reports, in-house journals and much more...learn more

Professional Script Writing

The Professional Script writing course has been designed to provide you with the essential skills required to succeed as a professional scriptwriter. This course offers you the unique opportunity to develop a career writing professional scripts or Hollywood screenplays for film, television and video. You'll be taken through the important business aspects of finding an agent and selling your finished material, that is, writing scripts for profit. Each week, hundreds of scripts are purchased from scriptwriters to satisfy the insatiable demand for film, television and video makers...learn more

Public Relations

Romance Writing

The mainstream publishers are always looking for well-written romance novels. The Romance Writing course teaches you all of the key skills needed from understanding the genre, how to make your novel stand out to an Editor, where to begin, dealing with rejections and self-promoting...learn more

Sub-Editing for Newspapers, Magazines and TV

With the Sub-Editing for Newspapers, Magazines and TV course you will learn all you need to know to cover one of the most important cornerstones of news presentation. Learn how to plan out and edit news copy, correct grammatical errors, write headlines and sub-headlines and cut and rewrite copy...learn more

Writing a Best seller

Do you dream of in-depth plots, far-away worlds, and intriguing characters vying for the lead in your first best selling novel? Do you yearn to see your name on jacket covers, plastered on bookshop windows and gracing the pages of the latest magazine? Would you love to be signing autographs on the inside cover of your latest book, surrounded by legions of fans eager for a glimpse of your next blockbuster? If this sounds like you, then you need the Writing a Best seller course. If you seriously want to write a best seller, then you need to know how to go about it. The course will show you how to do it and how to do it right...learn more