COPY SCHOOL 2025 set for 15-19 DECEMBER, 2025. BOOK NOW @ COPYSCHOOL.ORG
Copy School 2025 has a lot to live up to. Previous students scores out of 10… 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 12, 9, 11, 10, 10!, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 (2024); 11, 11, 8, 10, 10, 10.5, 10, 10!, 10, 10, 10, 10!!, 10, 10, 9, 8, 10, 10!, 10, 10, 10 (2023); 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10!!, 10, 10, 9, 8 (2022)
So Copy School 2025 has a lot lined up to ensure it does live up to that reputation.
Eleven supertutors: Andy Flemming, Dee Madigan, Georgie Waters, Aïcha Wijland and Ewan Harvey, Samira Ansari (via Zoom from New York), Jenny Mak and Heather Sheen, Jonathan Kneebone, Ralph van Dijk, and Esther Clerehan.
Their respective topics over the 15-19 December week, at the State Library of New South Wales:
On being a real writer
Resilience
The Basics
Why There’s Never Been A Better Time To Be A Copywriter
On ideas
Empathy, Strategy, Persuasion
In One Ear And In The Other
The Role Of The Audience
Finding Your Strengths and Working to Them
Copy School is the ad industry giving back. It’s a not-for-profit, with highly credentialed pro bono creative tutors. Its founder Ray Black — of AWARD Ray Black Pencil fame — set up Copy School to be as accessible as possible.
The five-day fee remains at just $595.
Copy School enriches creative minds — aspiring, fledgling and practising — thanks to the ongoing commitment of its tutors, the enthusiasm of top agencies, self-funding students, and the support of the trade press.
Book now at copyschool.org

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With creativity more important than it’s ever been, Copy School 2025 will give you — in a week — an unforgettable experience with a wide range of top creative minds. A wider, deeper range than I got in years as an aspiring and then fledgling copywriter. And Copy School is not just for aspiring or fledgling copywriters. Or even just copywriters for that matter. Anyone who loves writing and ideas is welcome. First come, first served: copyschool.org