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The Diploma of Creative Writing introduces emerging writers to a combination of creative practice, technical expertise, critical engagement, and professional development. You’ll engage with fiction, poetry, non-fiction, experimental literature, cross-cultural narrative and digital storytelling, gaining the skills and confidence to produce compelling writing in a range of forms and genres. Critical understanding of popular genres and practical training in editing for publication will also be fostered, enabling you to produce and review work for professional or public audiences.Taught by award-winning writers, this diploma provides a strong foundation in creative writing and opens pathways to further study or work in publishing, media, communication, and the arts.

Develop your craft across fiction, poetry and digital storytelling. Strengthen your technical skills while exploring experimental writing. Learn about editing and publishing. Graduate ready to join writing communities or advance to further study.

Diploma of Creative Writing

The Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Writing introduces emerging writers to key aspects of creative practice. You’ll engage with fiction and poetry, gaining the skills and confidence to produce compelling writing in a range of forms and genres. Critical understanding of popular genres and practical training in editing for publication will also be fostered, enabling you to produce and review work for professional or public audiences.Taught by award-winning writers, this undergraduate certificate provides a foundation in creative writing and opens pathways to further study or work in publishing, media, communication, and the arts.﻿

Take your first steps as a writer. You’ll learn the foundations of creative practice. Explore fiction and poetry. Find your writing voice. Graduate ready to continue your journey into writing, publishing or media.

Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Writing

Bachelor Degrees prepare students to develop broad and coherent knowledge and skills in a discipline for professional work and further learning corresponding to AQF level 7 qualifications.This course offers students the opportunity to study one or two disciplines from a wide range of majors. Students choosing only one major will also choose the elective stream where they will be able to choose further units from the same discipline as their chosen major or may choose units from throughout the university. The first year of the course enables students to choose foundation units suitable to their needs and begin study in their chosen major(s), where appropriate.

Develop your own voice as you explore genres including poetry. You’ll learn how to plan and research your projects. Polish your grammar, practice proofreading and copyediting. Witness words transforming from wispy thoughts to professional pieces.

Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) (Professional Writing and Publishing)

If you like to express yourself creatively through writing, the Creative Writing degree will help enhance your skills across a range of writing styles, such as fiction, poetry and writing for performance, as well as emerging and experimental genres. You’ll be encouraged to improve your critical awareness and develop all the relevant professional skills required  of an author in the digital age. Each week, you will benefit from the advice and support of our tutors, many of whom are acclaimed authors, and through critical engagement with a talented peer group. Your lecturers and tutors will also advise you on processes that will prepare you to seek publication for your work.   Curtin’s creative writing graduates have had consistent success in national literary awards and publishing. The content of the major creates employment outcomes across a broad range of communications-related fields and will allow you to develop applicable language skills and conceptual understandings that will be useful across a range of other academic disciplines.

Explore styles including poetry and short fiction. Choose from electives including screen and digital. Prepare for real employment outcomes in writing, editing and publishing. Study creative writing online and transition to an online writing career.

Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing)

Writing Poetry

Australian Poetry: Storytelling and the Creative Space

An intermediate subject on the theory and practice of writing poetry. An appreciation of language through textual consideration and the practice of creative writing, including drafting and editing.﻿Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject, you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

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