Want to Complete Your Creative Writing Project Without Years of Hard Work and Frustration?
Want to Turbo-Charge Your Creative Writing and Finish Writing Your Stories or Scripts More Quickly?
A Personalised and Inspiring Way to Achieve Your Writing Goals
At the Writers College, we’ll help you achieve your creative writing goals in the shortest time possible. If you are tired of second-guessing every phrase you write, and looking for ways to establish an engaging, effective writing routine, our writing programmes can help take the 'pain' out of the writing process.
In the last 15 years we’ve taught thousands of novelists, poets, scriptwriters and children’s authors how to polish their writing and get published, without wasted time and effort. We’ve helped students of all ages and backgrounds achieve impressive results, and we can do the same for you.
Here Are a Few of Our
Student Successes:
Martin Steyn
Gareth Ward
Trish Nicholson
Suzanne Maine
Andy Evans
Taemumu Richardson
Megan Frith
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Follow One of Our Specialised Creative Writing Programmes and Avoid Common Writing Mistakes
Completing your novel, screenplay or short story can be easier than you think. Many writers simply don’t know the best approach to take, resulting in frustration, lack of motivation and blocked creativity. At the Writers College, we’ve done the difficult groundwork for you. All you need to do is follow our course programme, and implement the individual feedback you receive from your tutor, to complete your creative writing project.
You won’t just save time and effort either. By harnessing your award-winning tutor’s insider tips and expertise, you can most likely unlock far better creative results than you’d be able to achieve on your own.
We’ve taken decades of writing experience by our team of award-winning writers and compressed it into comprehensive, effective programmes that you can complete at your own pace. Plus our students consistently tell us how fun, stimulating and challenging our courses are!
What Our Students Say
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Here’s a Brief Outline of What We Cover in Our Courses
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Uncover Your Writing Blindspots with the Help of Your Award-winning Tutor
Eliminate self-doubt and uncertainty with feedback on the specific errors you’re making in your writing. Receive detailed constructive critiques on every assignment from an award-winning, professional writer. -
Develop Your Unique Writer's Voice
Our professional tutors know how to bring out the best in their students. You will be gently guided, but allowed the freedom to explore your own writing style and ideas. -
Learn Proven Creative Writing Techniques
We’ll reveal the writing skills that famous authors and professional writers use to bring their work to life, create authentic characters, and invent compelling plots and story structures. Skip the uncertainty and find out exactly how it’s done! -
Follow a Step-by-step Process Taking You from Idea to Final Draft
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Discover the Mistakes Made By Virtually All Beginner Writers
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Explore a Wide Range of Publication Outlets to Enhance Your Chances of Success
Find out how and where to professionally submit work for publication, and exactly what steps to take when approaching different markets.
Anyone, of any age, can acquire the tools needed to kick-start their project or drive it to completion.
We’ll impart the skills you need to harness your imagination, super-charge your approach and polish your final draft.
Whether you’re fresh out of high school, a confident writer aiming to fast-track their manuscript, or newly retired with time and energy for a personal project, our one-to-one feedback and expertise will boost your writing progress.
Do you have what it takes to be a writer?
You’ll never know unless you try!
Our Creative Writing Courses
for 2021:
The Basics of Creative Writing
Master the basic skills required for all forms of creative writing. Practise your writing in dozens of fun exercises in this four-month writing course. Suitable for all levels of writers.
The Advanced Creative Writing Course
Our Advanced Creative Writing Course builds on the skills you acquired in the Basics of Creative Writing Course. Use these skills in more sophisticated ways to achieve mature, polished writing. Open to graduates of the Basics Course.
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Short Story Writing for Magazines
Learn the skills you need to write saleable short stories for magazines – plus discover how to stretch your imagination and stimulate your creativity!
Literary Short and Flash Fiction
In this course, we provide the tools you need to write literary short stories. We also share tips on how to get them published in print and online journals.
The Write a Novel Course
This course covers everything you need to write your manuscript - chapter by chapter. Learn how to write believable dialogue, create solid characters, how to structure your plot and create tension. Walk away with a proposal ready for the publisher's desk.
An Introduction to Poetry
This course teaches you the basic skills of poetry, including line length, figures of speech, metered verse, tone, imagery and lyricism.
The Scriptwriting Course
Write and sell your own stage play, radio play or movie script. This course will guide you from your big idea to a saleable finished product.
The Writing for Video Games Course
Learn to write for one of the fastest growing industries in the world! This ten-module course teaches you how to write dialogue, concept documents, in-game text and the host of other narrative assets that you'll find in video games.
Writing Books for Children | Part One
You're about to enter the exciting world of writing a book for children. This potentially lucrative market is always open to new writers who have cracked the code of what inspires children.
Writing Books for Children | Part Two
This follow-on course from Writing Books for Children (Part One) will provide the tools and support you need to complete your chapter book for 8- to 12-year-olds.
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The Write Your Memoir Course
This course offers expert, one-to-one training by a professional writer to give you a solid foundation in the craft of memoir writing.
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The courses below are follow-on courses aimed at completing a full manuscript or anthology.
Advanced Short Story Writing
Our Advanced Short Story Writing Course is designed to guide you step by step to write a collection of short stories for a personal anthology.
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The Advanced Write a Novel Course
Our Advanced Write a Novel Course builds on the manuscript that you wrote in the foundation course. Now complete your manuscript up to 70 000 words with one-to-one guidance from an award-winning writer.
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The Advanced Poetry Course
Our Advanced Poetry Course will take you a step further on your journey towards crafting poems that could be considered for publication by literary journals. Your experienced tutor will teach you how to find your poetic voice, how to edit your own work, and how to become more technically proficient as a poet.
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The Advanced Scriptwriting Course
This advanced writing course provides all the support and structure you need to develop a complete script for film, stage or a TV series.
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The Advanced Memoir Course
Our Advanced Memoir Course builds on the manuscript that you wrote in the foundation course. Now complete your manuscript up to 70 000 words with one-to-one guidance from an award-winning writer.
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Your Writing Course?
We would love to help you choose the best course for you. Tell us what style of writing you want to develop and we'll give you some options.
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