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Creative Writing 2: Short-form Fiction
UndergraduateMAQ-ENGX20332025
Previously MAQ-ENGX233
Brainstorm new ways of writing and reflecting on your work. Build worlds and write with genre, identity and gender in mind. Critique theoretical and creative texts. Produce conceptually-driven creative writing pieces that extend your practice.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 20 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 28 July 2025
- Price from
- $625
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Creative Writing 2: Short-form Fiction
About this subject
On successful completion, a student will be able to
- Critique and analyse literary and theoretical texts.
- Develop creative writing and reading skills in relation to concepts, topics, craft, technique and voice.
- Appraise and critique students’ writing in workshop environment.
- Apply key theoretical and practical concepts and techniques in creative writing.
- Evaluate their own creative writing processes.
- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.
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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Entry requirements
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of
- MAQ-ENGX1021-An Introduction to Creative Writing
MAQ-ENGX121 (Not currently available)
- GRF-CWR110-Creative Writing, Forms and Structures
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 (Not currently 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.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateMAQ-ART-DEG
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