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About the course
This postgraduate Creative Writing major develops practical writing skills across multiple forms, including short and long fiction, poetry, writing for performance and popular genre writing, with scope for emerging and experimental genres. You learn through reflective practice and collaborative workshops guided by award-winning, published staff, while building critical awareness, theory and digital writing capabilities. This major is studied within Curtin’s Master of Arts (coursework) in creative practice.
Career outcome
This major supports career pathways in writing, publishing and related communications fields. Graduates may pursue roles such as writer or author, editor, copywriter, publisher, media writer, poet, playwright, speech writer or teaching-related work, depending on experience and chosen electives or portfolio. Skills developed in crafting and shaping work for audiences and publishing contexts are relevant across creative industries and professional communication. This is a Master coursework specialisation in creative writing.
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