Creative Writing 2: Short-form Fiction

• • A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• MAQ-ENGX233-Creative Writing 2: Concept and Practice (No longer available)

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

• MAQ-ENGX1021-An Introduction to Creative Writing
• GRF-CWR110-Creative Writing, Forms and Structures
• MAQ-ENGX121-Creative Writing 1: An Introduction (No longer available)

Others

NCCW (pre-2020 units): ENGL233, ENGL304, ENGL319, ENGX233 Pre-requisite: ENGX1021 or ENGX121 NCCW (2020 and onwards): ENGL2033 Creative Writing 2: Concept and Practice

Additional requirements

• Other requirements -

  Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.

Please note: This subject was previously titled: Concepts and Practice in Fiction and Poetry

The subject encourages responses to different genres and theoretical approaches to creative writing. It aims to develop practical written and reflective skills, and the capacity to use language and form. It encourages students to attempt new ways of writing, to develop their work into finished texts, and to consciously position these texts within the wider discourse. In this subject, creative writing is taught within contexts of contemporary relevance, in order to broaden students' range and encourage reflection about their writing. Students are expected to develop their creative writing and increase their knowledge about its contexts by producing writing throughout the subject. Subject topics and readings provide literary and theoretical examples to stimulate intellectual and creative enquiry.

• Participatory task (25%)
• Creative work (Minor) (25%)
• Creative work (Major) (50%)

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