Why I’m studying… Professional Writing and Editing (PWE)

Writer and librarian Alice Reid is studying professional writing and editing at RMIT. She's the perfect example of how study pathways evolve over a lifetime.

Alice Reid (she/her) is a writer and librarian living on the lands of the Wurundjeri People in Victoria, Australia. She’s the perfect example of how study and career pathways in the arts can be circuitous and unexpected, with different life stages requiring different study options to open up new creative ventures.

She returned to university part-time in 2019, this time studying an Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing (PWE) at RMIT. Studying PWE has given Reid the opportunity to exercise her creative muscles once more. She has taken up art-making again in the form of digital drawing, and has started integrating this into her writing practice.

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Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.