Welcome to the Sydney Writers' Centre

Whether you want to write a novel or a screenplay, become a freelance journalist or improve your writing at work, you've come to the right place. The Sydney Writers' Centre in Milsons Point runs over 30 courses, with five of our most popular courses offered online.

You'll find a course to suit your needs down the left side of the page.

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Do you want to improve your writing or get published?

Maybe you want to write a novel, and you have a story inside you desperate to be put into words but have no idea where to start. Or you used to enjoy writing at school but you’re not sure if you’re any good. You have lots of ideas but you’re not sure how to structure them into compelling story.

Or perhaps you’ve always wanted to write articles for your favourite magazines. Or draft that screenplay for the movie that’s been swirling around your head for years.

Like most writers, you find writing in isolation difficult. Successful writers know that feedback is vital to producing a polished manuscript that publishers, and readers, will love. However you don’t have the right help and support.

Learn from the best

All of the presenters at Sydney Writers’ Centre are working journalists, published authors, or established screenwriters, so you’re learning from people who are practicing their craft every single day.

Our courses are unique to the Sydney Writers’ Centre and are rigorously designed to ensure consistent quality and content regardless of which presenter you have.

You could be published in as little as 5 weeks!

Most of our courses run for 5 weeks. They’re all information-packed and highly practical, and some of our students have been published before the end of the course, or shortly after.

If you want to write articles for magazines and newspapers, we’d suggest completing Magazine and Newspaper Writing. Countless students have been published as a result of this course.

Or if you prefer writing fiction, short stories or maybe a novel one-day, we recommend starting with Creative Writing Stage 1, which is ideal whether you are a total novice or already have some writing experience. If you want to write books for children or young adults, you should complete our Writing Books for Children and Young Adults course.

If you’d like to write a movie, then Screenwriting is for you. And if you’d like to write a memoir, like Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray Love” then Life Writing or Travel Memoir is a must.

Enjoy the added support of our writing community.

Writing can be an isolated journey, and the fact is your writing won’t improve if the only person to read it is you. When you take a course with the Sydney Writers’ Centre, you’re joining a community that offers additional resources, workshops and support from like-minded writers.

You can take one of our follow-up courses. Either a Stage 2 course, Master class workshop or one of our special-interest seminars. You can also use our manuscript assessment service and join our lively online forums that are only open to graduates.