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. You’re not just relaying facts – you’re thinking about story, image and scene. Creative writers draft and re-draft so their work is at its best, and this process is exciting. Creative writers might write to entertain or to educate – but they’re always drawing on the human condition, exploring what it means to be human. A UOW degree in creative writing will focus on three key areas of creative writing practice: poetic, dramatic and narrative. You will be able to produce new work in poetry, drama and short stories and reflect on these practices in relation to the history and politics of writing. What you will study: Core subjects will teach you the foundation for editing, writing across borders, genre and form, contemporary theory and research practice and you will explore social justice and children's literature. As well as your Creative Writing major, you must elect a minor or a second major from the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts. Creative writing pairs well with a major in English Literatures, Cultural Studies, Languages, Indigenous Studies or Philosophy.

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