Best Screenwriting Podcasts: 35 Shows Every Writer Should Be Listening To
Best screenwriting podcasts: 35 shows every writer should be listening to.
If you’re looking for the best screenwriting podcasts to enhance your understanding of the craft and business of writing, here’s our choice of the top 35.
After the list, we round up some episodes from these screenwriting podcasts according to subject matter—giving you the best screenwriting podcasts on dialogue, character, structure and so on.
Best screenwriting podcasts for interviews with other industry players.
3rd & Fairfax
w/ the WGA West.
This is the official screenwriting podcast of the Writers’ Guild of America West.
Each week Steve Trautmann, Aaron Fullerton and Brian Gary interview the cream of Hollywood’s writers, producers, directors and actors as well as give important information and updates about the Guild itself. Subscribe to 3rd & Fairfax podcast >>
The Bulletproof Screenwriting Podcast
w/ Alex Ferrari.
This screenwriting podcast continues to hit the ball out the park with its weekly guests talking about subjects as diverse as writing your first blockbuster screenplay to starting a career as an indie filmmaker.
Past guests include screenwriters such as Eric Roth, to showrunners such as Marta Kaufman. Subscribe to The Bulletproof Screenwriting Podcast >>
Curious About Screenwriting
w/ Joe Penna.
Affiliated with the fantastic ISA Network, this is a screenwriting podcast that brings you regular updates on the film industry, trends, WGA, spec market as well as interviews with emerging screenwriters like yourself and their breaking-in stories.
They don’t have a website so we’ve included a link where you can subscribe via Podbay, but the show is also available in all the usual places such as Apple and Stitcher, etc. Subscribe to Curious About Screenwriting podcast >>
Inside the Screenwriter’s Mind
w/ Alex Ferrari.
In-depth interviews on the craft of screenwriting with some of the best script consultants, agents, execs and screenwriters in the business.
Recent guests have included authors of some of the best screenwriting books of all time, like Jill Chamberlin, Michael Hague and Linda Seger. Well worth a listen. Subscribe to Inside the Screenwriter’s Mind >>
OnWriting
w/ Jordan Carlos.
Brought to you by the WGA East, this is a screenwriting podcast that provides plenty of inspiration and tips on how to break into the industry via interviews with Hollywood’s top movers and shakers.
Recent guests have included Noah Baumbach, Amy Schumer and Rian Johnson who have offered their advice on everything from writing that first draft to pitching. Subscribe to OnWriting screenwriting podcast >>
On the Page
w/ Pilar Alessandra.
In Pilar Alessandra’s screenplay podcast, she interviews a different guest each week from the world of writing, directing, acting and producing.
Definitely one of the best screenwriting podcasts on the market that you’d be a fool to miss. Subscribe to On the Page podcast >>
On Story
w/ the Austin Film Festival.
Recorded live at the Austin Film Festival, this screenwriting podcast brings you an insider’s perspective on the process of writing and getting a screenplay financed and made.
Previous guests in the chair include top screenwriters such as Ed Solomon, Scott Frank, Judd Apatow, the Duplass Brothers, Shane Black and many more. Subscribe to On Story podcast >>
The Q&A
w/ Jeff Goldsmith.
Picking up where the Creative Screenwriting podcast left off, this is journalist Jeff Goldsmith’s podcast in which he conducts lengthy interviews with top screenwriters.
He asks them questions about how they got into the business, their writing habit, writing process and much more. Unmissable. Subscribe to the Q&A podcast >>
Scripts and Scribes
w/ Kevin Fukunaga.
Kevin Fukunaga is a film industry jack of all trades who’s worked in a variety of roles in the industry. He also hosts this great screenwriting podcast in which he interviews agents, managers, execs, showrunners, actors, film, TV, video game and comic book writers and everyone in-between.
Well worth checking out to get an inside look at the industry from multiple perspectives. Subscribe to Scripts and Scribes podcast >>
The Successful Screenwriter
w/ Geoffrey D. Calhoun.
This is another interview-based screenwriting podcast with guests from various areas of the industry giving their insider tips on how to “make it.”
Learn how to become a freelance TV writer with Katie White, capture a global audience with Weiko Lin and monetize your writing with Michaelbrent Collings and much more. Subscribe to The Successful Screenwriter podcast >>
The Treatment
w/ Elvis Mitchell.
Another weekly interview show in which Mitchell sits down with some of the industry’s best screenwriters and gets them to talk about their careers and the craft of screenwriting.
Recent highlights include conversations with Lynne Ramsay and Joaquin Phoenix on You Were Never Really Here and John Daley and Johnathan Goldstein discussing the art of comedy in their movie Game Night.
Subscribe to The Treatment podcast >>
UK Scriptwriters
w/ Danny Stack & Tim Clague.
There haven’t been any new episodes of this screenwriting podcast for a while, but there are over seventy in the archive from writers Danny Stack and Tim Clague.
As given away by the title, it’s geared toward UK-based writers and some of the best episodes are chats with agent, Jean Kitson, sitcom writer, James Cary and Paul Pimenta on moving to LA. Subscribe to UK Scriptwriters podcast >>
Write On
w/ Final Draft.
This Final Draft produced screenwriting podcast invites writers on to the show to talk about writing, how they broke in, the craft and sustaining a career in the industry.
Previous guests include Scott Neustadter, Julie Delpy and Nick Hornby. The podcast also includes interviews with Final Draft Big Break contest finalists and judges which are equally illuminating.
Subscribe to Write On podcast >>
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