If your dream is to write,
our courses will get you doing it

We are a creative writing studio in Sydney providing
online and live in studio writing courses.

For over 30 years, the Writers’ Studio has worked with everyone from award-winning professionals to complete beginners helping them realise their creative dreams. We specialise in short stories, novels and screenplays.

Roland Fishman's Writers' Studio is one of the quiet success stories of Sydney.

"No one in the world is doing what you guys do, combining the structural elements of story telling with the power and creativity of play. This process is fantastic."

George Miller

Director & Screenwriter

“This is without a doubt the best writing course in Sydney. I strongly recommend it to anyone with a story to tell and more to the point - to people unsure of what the story they want to write is.”

Sam De Brito

Author

“Your classes taught me that everyone has a story inside them. You just need to learn the craft of writing in a nurturing environment like the Writers' Studio. It was an enlightening & liberating lesson.”

Matt Sherring

Screenwriter

"If it wasn't for Unlocking Creativity and the Writers' Studio First Draft course, I wouldn't be where I am today - an author about to be published. Thank you Roland for the inspiration."

L.A. Larkin

Author

Our flagship writing courses

4-Week Unlocking Creativity

This totally practical yet inspirational creative writing course will get you writing from the very first session and dramatically improve the quality of your writing and understanding of character development and story structure. It is a prerequisite for all our courses and is suitable for complete beginners, experienced professionals and anyone in between. Discover that everyone has a unique voice and a worthwhile story to tell.

Live
Online

10-Month Novel & Script Writing Course

This course provides you with a step-by-step process that breaks the writing of your novel or screenplay into manageable weekly tasks, enabling you to complete your first draft in 10 months. You will write a story that has readers wanting to know what happens next, while taking your main character on an emotional and spiritual journey of change. If you sign up for this course directly, you receive Unlocking Creativity for free.

Live
Online

Click this video to hear what writers have to say about our 4-Week Unlocking Creative writing course and our 10-Month Novel and Script Course. The videos were shot in our Sydney studio. Writers have similar positive learning experiences participating in our online writing courses.

Online Writing Courses

Join our interactive online creative writing courses and experience the inspirational energy of working with a group of like-minded writers and your personal tutor to realise your potential as a creator, writer and storyteller.

Unlocking Creativity

ONLINE WRITING COURSE

Our 4-Week introductory creative writing course is a prerequisite for all of our courses

Short Story Courses

ONLINE WRITING COURSE

Learn more about the craft of writing, develop characters and write short stories

Novel & Script First Draft

ONLINE WRITING COURSE

Find your story and complete the first draft of your novel or screenplay in 10 months

Beyond First Draft

ONLINE WRITING COURSE

Before your story is ready for publication you will need to write a number of drafts

Sydney Writing Courses

Join our live-in-studio creative writing courses in Bronte, Sydney and experience the inspirational energy of working with a group of like-minded writers in a nurturing and instructive environment and realise your potential as a creator, writer and storyteller.

Unlocking Creativity

SYDNEY WRITING COURSE

Our 4-Week introductory writing course is a pre-requisite for all of our courses.

Short Story Courses

SYDNEY WRITING COURSE

Learn more about the craft of writing, develop characters and write short stories

Novel & Script First Draft

SYDNEY WRITING COURSE

Find your story and complete the first draft of your novel or screenplay in 10 months

Beyond First Draft

SYDNEY WRITING COURSE

Before your story is ready for publication you will need to write a number of drafts

Creative Writing Courses

Many people have a passionate desire to write fiction and long to see their books in print or their films on the big screen. However, the desire to write is only the beginning of the journey.

Writing powerful stories, creating compelling characters and writing in a way that makes other people want to read what you’ve written doesn’t just happen.

The Writers’ Studio provides a practical approach to writing, creativity and storytelling in a supportive and inspirational environment, giving you a pathway to realise your writing dreams.

Course Reviews – Google, Video & Published Authors

The Writers’ Studio
Level 1, 2a Lugar Brae Ave,
Bronte 2024 NSW +61 2 9386 4994
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Unlocking Creativity Course

SYDNEY + ONLINE

Our 4-Week introductory creative writing course is a profound journey and a prerequisite for all our courses, including Novel & Script.

This totally practical process will unlock your creativity, get you writing from the very first session and dramatically improve the quality of your writing and understanding of character development and story structure.

Intermediate Courses

SYDNEY + ONLINE

Our 6-Week Short Story courses are ideal if you have completed Unlocking Creativity and want to further develop your writing and storytelling skills.

The courses, which will invigorate your writing are: Writers’ Gym – Advanced Writing Techniques course, Character Development course & the Short Story Genre course.

Novel & Script Courses

SYDNEY + ONLINE

Many people dream of writing a novel or screenplay but are overwhelmed by the enormity of the task, especially if working full-time.

This course demystifies story structure and provides an inspirational step-by-step process and tutor support to guide you in completing your first draft in ten months.

Zoe Coyle's debut novel, Where the Light Gets In is published by Ultimo Press. "To Roland & Kathleen from the Writers' Studio, for giving me the structure to finally get this story out."

A truly practical approach to the secrets of good story telling.

Rachel Ward

My time at the Writers’ Studio taught me so much about plot and structure and, importantly, it cleared my head of the rubbish I'd previously believed about the mystery of writing and the creative process.

Nigel Bartlett

I'm thrilled. By sticking with my story and to the principles I learned at the Writers' Studio, and by getting lucky, I've realised a life-long ambition. Thank you Roland and Kathleen!

Alex Gilly

The Writers’ Studio provides a pathway to getting a novel both started and completed. The Writers' Studio has a proven methodology to get you writing. They provide a fantastic framework for commercial fiction writers that works for all genres. The Last Balfour is now being published by HarperCollins Publishers Australia. It really is a dream come true.

Cait Duggan

The Writers' Studio is my testing ground, and a place equipped with the finest mental technologies, which unlike the thousands of books on the subject, are designed to nurture the screenwriter through that arduous practice and discipline of animating a story step-by-step, day by day, and refining it so that it represents the best of what you are.

Nick Lathouris

I work as professional script writer and editor, so I understand the basics of story structure, but the way the everything was broken down to the smallest of steps was just brilliant. It made me dig for my story, and get in deep, and get complex, rather than settling for the easiest first thought. Loved the dance! Such a beautiful perfect balance.”

Elizabeth Packett

“It is an understatement to say I learnt more about writing from the workshops than I did in three years studying (creative writing) at university.”

Ali Gripper

"During one of the Unlocking Creativity exercises, I ended up developing a character who became the basis of my second novel, 'Those Pleasant Girls'. I'm delighted to say that 'Those Pleasant Girls' is being published with Pan Macmillan. If anyone is in doubt about whether to seriously pursue their writing, I'd encourage them to try this course—you never know where it's going to lead!"

Lia Weston

Unlocking Creativity Course

SYDNEY + ONLINE

Intermediate Courses

SYDNEY + ONLINE

Novel & Script Courses

SYDNEY + ONLINE

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