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ISSOS, Summer School 2026 at St Andrews & Cambridge Universities:
The online Creative Writing summer school course at ISSOS is designed to sharpen your writing talents and help you to harness the power in your words as a way to express yourself. Our 2 week, online creative writing course helps you to build your writing skills through a range of projects including short stories, essays and poetry, to help you to discover your own creative voice.

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ISSOS Online is our new online summer school programme for students aged 13 - 18. It offers three of our most popular academic subjects in a 2-week online learning course.

For summer 2026, due to Covid restrictions, we are offering Online academic class choices for 2 weeks from July 2nd - 16th at ISSOS - for both UK and international students. Students choose one option, between Creative Writing or Business & Entrepreneurship (both of these suitable for 13 - 18-year-olds), and Study Skills (15 - 19-year-olds).

The courses are delivered as a blend of Live Online Classes (run twice daily to suit students in lots of time zones), group work, project work, pre-loaded learning content and lots of additional activities outside of the academic classes (for instance our university admissions workshop, yoga workshops etc).

Our two-week online summer school has been developed to meet the needs of high school students around the world. Each course offers over 50 hours of learning material, delivered as a blend of Live online classes, one to one catch-up sessions with a tutor, and pre-loaded content to help students gain valuable academic skills.

Benefits of studying Creative Writing online with ISSOS:
- Expert tuition from a published writer
- Flexible online delivery combining a range of online resources and tasks to work through in your own time, daily live sessions and dedicated self-study time.
- Live, group classes, run twice daily to suit a variety of time zones
- Weekly, one to one academic meeting with your academic tutor
- Benefits all areas of schoolwork through improved writing structure
- Regular writing practice and balanced critical evaluation to refine skills
- Builds confidence and communication skills
- Boosts imagination and develops clarity of thought
- Lowers stress and strengthens mental and emotional health
- Additional online live events for students to join in with to help them have fun and gain new skills.

What Students Learn:
In this online creative writing course, students work through a variety of lessons and exercises designed to sharpen their skills as a writer, and as a reader. They will learn about and discuss essential literary elements such as narrative form, voice, and style, and how these work in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction writing.

The main part of this course is the workshop, in which everyone gets a chance to present their own writing, and give and receive feedback. In this way, students get the opportunity to hone their own craft, within a vibrant writing community. We ask that students starting this course have a piece of writing.

Whether you are an experienced writer, or just starting out, this course provides the opportunity to learn about different writing techniques, and to improve your writing in a supportive, caring environment.

Live online classes will run daily, Monday to Friday, with times scheduled to cater for all time zones so that students can find an option that will work wherever they are in the world.

When our school campuses return in summer 2026, we will continue to offer the online study options as a permanent addition to our services.

Summer 2026 - Residential Programme options in Creative Writing:
- Academic summer camp at the world-famous St. Andrews University on the beautiful east coast of Scotland, UK.
- Academic summer camp at Yale University in USA.