Courses Calendar
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Day, Weekend, Evening and Week-long courses cover everything you need to improve your writing. All our tutors are writers and filmmakers. All believe good writing is at the heart of great filmmaking and have designed practical courses to help you develop your screenplay.
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MAY
HOW TO WRITE FOR RADIO & AUDIO
One-day in-person workshop
Friday 8th May
10.30am - 5pm
Central London
For writers, audio can be the most creative medium of all. There's never been a better time to master its unique power to engage audiences and create compelling drama, comedy, factual and other formats for every audio platform.
This enjoyable immersive workshop gives you all the tools you need for success.
Friday 8th May
10.30am - 5pm
Central London
For writers, audio can be the most creative medium of all. There's never been a better time to master its unique power to engage audiences and create compelling drama, comedy, factual and other formats for every audio platform.
This enjoyable immersive workshop gives you all the tools you need for success.
WRITING FEAR
Two-day in-person workshop
Friday 22nd and 29th May
10.00am - 5.30pm
Central London
Almost all genres require some level of fear or threat. This workshop isn’t just for writers working in horror, but for anyone who wants to know how fear can animate fiction, film, and drama.
Bring a story seed; leave with something vivid, worrying, and well worth pursuing.
Friday 22nd and 29th May
10.00am - 5.30pm
Central London
Almost all genres require some level of fear or threat. This workshop isn’t just for writers working in horror, but for anyone who wants to know how fear can animate fiction, film, and drama.
Bring a story seed; leave with something vivid, worrying, and well worth pursuing.
june
TELLING TRUE STORIES FOR THE SCREEN
Two-part online evening workshop
Wednesdays, 3rd and 10th June, 2026
18:00-21:00 (UK time)
ONLINE
Anyone working on a creative project based on a true story or real person at some point will come up against technical, legal and ethical challenges that interrupt the creative process. This workshop will clarify those challenges and offer ways of moving your project forward with creative confidence.
Wednesdays, 3rd and 10th June, 2026
18:00-21:00 (UK time)
ONLINE
Anyone working on a creative project based on a true story or real person at some point will come up against technical, legal and ethical challenges that interrupt the creative process. This workshop will clarify those challenges and offer ways of moving your project forward with creative confidence.
JULY
WRITING HOLIDAY MOVIES
Two-part online evening workshop
Thursdays, 2nd and 9th July, 2026
18:00-21:00 (UK time)
ONLINE
Thursdays, 2nd and 9th July, 2026
18:00-21:00 (UK time)
ONLINE
Now is the time to be thinking about adding a commercial winner to your writing portfolio.
Holiday movies come with genre expectations but they don't have to be formulaic.
In this two-part online workshop you will learn the tricks and tropes of the trade,
how to subvert expectation and elevate your script into a commercial winner.
Holiday movies come with genre expectations but they don't have to be formulaic.
In this two-part online workshop you will learn the tricks and tropes of the trade,
how to subvert expectation and elevate your script into a commercial winner.
YEAR ROUND
scripT DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
Develop your script from initial idea to a final draft of your feature or short film, web or TV comedy or drama series and improve your writing, story assessment and editing skills in these monthly feedback workshops, hosted online by Theresa Boden on selected Mondays from 6.15pm - 9.15pm & from 1.15 - 4.15pm and at BECTU in-person on selected Mondays from 1.15-4.15pm. The drop-in workshops are for a maximum of 6 writers ( writing teams may attend as one participant) so booking is advised a week before the workshop. You don't have to come every month just as and when you want to.
TRUE STORIES INCUBATOR
by invitation only
Monthly follow-on evening workshops reserved for those who have taken
the Telling True Stories for the Screen workshop.
For more information email
the Telling True Stories for the Screen workshop.
For more information email
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