Handbook

Creative Writing major for the Bachelor of Arts

The Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) encourages you to immerse yourself creatively, critically and practically. The Creative Industries is one of the fastest-growing, most dynamic sectors in the world. In the digital age, writing is becoming more and more central to the way we communicate. The Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) teaches skills and strategies so your writing is strong and clear. It helps you express ideas in imaginative ways that will impact your readers. Creative writers work in a range of areas: poetry, editing, writing for multimedia, commercial and content writing, theatre plays, screenplays, short stories and novels, or even in ways that combine or challenge these forms. Creative writers might write to entertain, influence, provoke or educate – but they’re always drawing on the human condition, exploring what it means to be human (or in some cases non-human) living with other species on the planet. This course is designed to teach you to think about story, image and scene. Creative writers draft and re-draft so their work is at its best, and this process is both exciting and rewarding.