Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing)

The creative writing major equips you with skills and strategies to refine your writing, helping you express ideas in imaginative ways that will impact your readers. In the digital age, writing is becoming more central to the way we communicate with each other.

This course is designed to teach you to think about image, scene and story. Core subjects will teach you the foundation for editing, writing across borders, genre and form, contemporary theory and research practice and you will explore social justice and children’s literature. Students will work on a major project allowing them to develop a significant piece of creative content on completion of their degree. Various artist and writer-in-residence programs take place throughout your degree, and you will be encouraged to participate in extracurricular activities, facilitate public readings, perform your written work and pursue publication.

There are opportunities to combine writing genres and explore the intersections between writing and other creative disciplines. Creative writers work in a range of areas: poetry, editing, writing for multimedia, commercial and content writing, commercial theatre and performance, short stories and novels, or even in ways that combine or challenge these forms.