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Do you have a knack for crafting compelling stories? And can you put them on paper with ease? This course teaches you to create stories for film, theatre, prose, and more. You’ll develop your unique voice, learn to build suspense, and bring characters to life. Step by step, you’ll be guided into the art of storytelling.

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Screenwriting as a Foundation 
Every film, stage performance, or audio story begins at the writer's desk. As a writer, you shape narratives that resonate with audiences. This program starts with the basics of writing fiction scripts. You’ll explore the technical and theoretical aspects of screenwriting across genres. Along the way, you’ll write extensively, conduct research, read widely, and watch films. As you progress, your focus will expand to other storytelling formats, including theatre, documentary, and prose.

Personal Style 
The course blends theory with workshops and practice to refine your writing skills. You’ll learn how to construct plots, create characters, and write dialogues. A team of experienced lecturers, often actively working in the field, will guide you in discovering your own voice.

Collaboration 
Great stories often emerge through teamwork. Throughout the program, you’ll frequently collaborate with students in Directing, Animation, Production, and Dramatic Arts. Together, you’ll develop stories, experiment with styles, and determine what works. By being involved in the realization process, you’ll see how your work comes to life on stage or screen.

For Various Story Formats 
The aim is to train inventive and versatile storytellers who can work in a variety of disciplines and professional settings after graduation. Whether you’re working solo or as part of a team, commissioned or independently, for audiovisual fiction, literary prose, or theatre, the essence remains the same: crafting a story that engages and moves an audience.

All classes are in Dutch.

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First Year: Building the Foundation  

In your first year, you’ll gain a broad audiovisual and cultural foundation. Together with your peers, you’ll explore the essentials of writing, directing, production, cinematography, sound design, and editing. Courses such as Art, Culture, and Film History will provide a solid cultural base, while individual and group exercises introduce you to the audiovisual field. You’ll also take your first specialized classes in screenwriting, writing, and language skills, laying the groundwork for your personal style. Artistic research will begin here as well.

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Second and Third Year: Specialization and Exploration  

From the second year, your focus widens with courses such as Screenwriting, Narratology, Dramaturgy, Literary Writing, Text Analysis, and Playwriting. In the Fiction Workshop, you’ll collaborate with directing and production students. You’ll gain experience with fiction series, interactive storytelling, and other narrative forms. Reflective courses like Political Theory, Cultural Theory, Film Analysis, and Film History will further expand your knowledge. In the Transversal Workshop, you’ll join students from other academic disciplines in artistic research within the dynamic context of Brussels.

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Master’s Year: Defining Your Voice    

In the Writing Master’s program, you’ll bring your personal artistic research to fruition. Under the guidance of a mentor, you’ll develop a narrative text that reflects your signature style, choosing your preferred form and medium: screenplay, prose, theatre, graphic novel, narrative game, and more. This year serves as the perfect bridge to a professional writing career.

Shortened Track

If you already hold a degree and wish to follow a shortened writing programme, you can take the admission test for the abbreviated track.
If transitioning from a professional bachelor's degree to a master's programme, you'll follow a bridging programme. If you have an academic background and want to pursue our master's degree, you'll undertake a preparatory programme. Both are ‘shortened’ tracks that do not grant a bachelor's diploma but provide access to the master's programme.

Your Programme

If you want detailed info on the subjects (assessment, examination formats...), please visit our study guide where you can find all ECTS sheets of our programmes.

Admission Test

To start this programme, you must first pass an artistic admission test. The admission test consists of three parts: a dossier, an intake or selection interview and a workshop week. Read more about the admission tests here.

Qualitty Education

Erasmushogeschool Brussel pursues quality education and continuously develops its programmes to meet (inter)national quality standards.
EhB puts maximum effort into developing a culture of quality and uses its own quality direction as a foundation for quality education.

Various instruments guarantee the strengthening and safeguarding of the educational quality of this programme:

- In 2024 external peers assessed the quality of this programme. Read the full peer review .
- The Board of Governors of EhB decided to validate this programme for the period 2024 to 2030 in the validation sheet.
- The quality file provides an overview of the strengths and growth opportunities of this programme.

The Flemish government's opleiding in cijfers website provides information on the profile of this programme such as who follows this programme, how long students take to obtain their degree, etc.
Read more about quality assurance within EhB.