Master of Creative Writing
offered by Macquarie University

Master of Creative Writing
at
Macquarie University
Overview

Crafting Worlds: Mastering the Art of Creative Writing

Skills you will learn

Who should do this course?

Aspiring writers, established authors seeking further education, and literary enthusiasts

What are the course deliverables?

Apply advanced skills in creative writing to research, write, and edit works of creative writing across a range of narrative and poetry-based genres
Develop digital and print-based editing, creative writing and production skills
Show an advanced capacity to read and analyse language, narrative and poetry, and other literary genres as creative writing practitioners
Demonstrate the capacity to think creatively, critically and imaginatively to research, evaluate and present complex ideas, concepts, problems and processes through creative writing

More about this course

The Master of Creative Writing is designed to extend and challenge emerging writers to hone their craft in a small community of writers. The focus is on developing your creativity and writing skills, and to provide expert training if you are aiming for professional publication
You are encouraged to experiment, hone your craft and to develop a technical vocabulary for critiquing your own work and the work of others. Specialist units in the degree engage with novel and short story writing, creative nonfiction (such as memoir, writing about place, personal essay), poetry, writing for young adults and manuscript development

Essential subjects

ENGX8010 Creative Writing Sminar: Narrative Fundamentals

ENGX8015 Writing Creative Non-Fiction - An Introduction

ENGX8022 Short Form Writing - Short story, Novella, Poetry Cycle

ENGX8075 Professional Contexts of Literary and Feature Writing

Electives

ENGX8011 Word Essentials: Prose and Poetry

ENGX8017 Writing the Past, Building New Worlds: Fiction and Non-Fiction

ENGX8026 Developing the Novel or Novella

ENGX8036 Manuscript Project

ENGX8030 Digital Creative Writing : Interactive Prose and Poetry

ENGX8090 Research for Creative Writing

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