Why Do I Need To Learn How To Co-Write?
Paul McCartney & John Lennon, Elton John & Bernie Taupin, and Carole King & Gerry Goffin are arguably some of the world’s most famous co-writing partnerships. They wrote hit song after hit song together. But would they have been hit songwriters without their counterparts?
What is it about co-writing that elevates songs and songwriters? Co-writing instantly doubles your toolkit. It gives you access to the other person’s strengths, creative ideas, energy and networks. It helps you grow as a writer and pushes you to create songs you might never have come up with by yourself.
Without a doubt if you want to be in writing rooms with other artists for their album projects, co-writing is an essential skill to develop. In short, co-writing will help you reach your full potential as a songwriter.
To supercharge your songs, learn from others, and create lifelong collaborative partnerships, join our next online co-writing course. Through this course, you will learn essential tools to build co-writing skills, confidence and networks. The course includes training sessions, facilitated co-writing sessions, song-sharing sessions, homework activities in addition to plenty of time to ask questions.
For planning purposes, we only run 1 co-writing course per year.
Course Outline and Enrollment Information
Course Requirements
Your Course Teacher
Francesca de Valence
Course Creator, Award-winning Songwriter and Educator

Francesca de Valence is a multi-award-winning songwriter, educator, and the founder of I Heart Songwriting Club. She is also the co-founder of the Whitsundays Songwriter Festival. With a vast catalogue of over 700 songs, Francesca’s work has been recorded and performed by renowned artists like Vika & Linda and Wendy Matthews.
“Co-writing has undeniably extended my songwriting in so many rich and rewarding ways, in addition to my weekly songwriting practice in The Club. I’ve been doing regular co-writing sessions online with many songwriters and artists around the world – from Australia, to Canada, to USA, to UK – all online over the past 6 years, with many of these songs being recorded, released and toured around the world – by other amazing artists! ” – Francesca
How to Join our Co-writing Course
Enrollment is simple.
Firstly confirm your place in the course by purchasing the course here. You will receive a receipt straightaway after payment via email.
After we receive payment, we will be in touch with you via email within 48 business hours to ask you some specific enrollment questions. This is so that we can pair you with complementary songwriters.
Finally, we will send through the course session information in the week before the course start date.
In the meantime, feel free to listen to some inspiring stories on our podcast – The Magic of Songwriting to illustrate some of the amazing benefits of co-writing.
Co-writing Course Terms of Service
Our general terms of service which pertain to use of this program can be viewed here. Please see our additional terms of service for our co-writing course here. If you cannot attend live due to any change of circumstance once the course is paid for, there will be replays of the course training content. Replays will be available up to 1 month after course completion date. With your permission, we will share your name and email address with the co-writers to facilitate your co-writing network and allow you to set up co-writing sessions effectively.
Header image featuring Maddison Kate and Amanda Thomas, taken by Jelightly at our 2024 Songwriting Retreat.