Creative Writing

Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne offers students an exciting and productive environment in which to develop essential skills in creative writing.

Creative Writing offers undergraduate students the opportunity to explore their own creative potential through workshops, readings, and seminars. In second and third years students can specialise in prose fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, creative non-fiction and life writing. In addition, students will be challenged to extend their creative work to avant garde, cross-genre and experimental forms of writing. Students will also have opportunities to critically test the influence of contemporary theoretical and philosophical schools of thought on all forms of writing.

Academic staff maintain a strong commitment to scholarly values, and actively support students in their passion for writing and literature. The School hosts a vibrant community of postgraduate students. Creative writing students participate in publication and seminar programs designed to foster creative and critical debate.

Staff members are experienced and widely published writers in their own fields. They offer subjects and supervision in the areas of fiction, poetry, poetics, nonfiction, screenwriting, autobiography, and theatre writing.