106-025 Creative Writing 2: Across the Genres

Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites, including completion of first year creative writing prerequisites. This subject is available to School of Creative Art students who have completed all first year requirements.

This is an intensive workshop subject in which students are encouraged to develop writing skills in a variety of genres through discussion of course readings, workshop exercises and the critique of work in progress. The readings are intended to provoke discussion about writing strategies and stylistic manoeuvres and to serve as triggers for experimentation. Students should gain an appreciation of the value of the writer's notebook and are encouraged to regard it as a portable 'studio' in which to accumulate material, fragmentary observations, responses to readings and in which drafts are elaborated. From the notebook students will develop a folio of creative writing pieces across a range of genres, honing editing skills and developing an awareness of the significance of the material presentation of creative work.

• be able to use a range of techniques to tap creative ideas;

• be able to plan feasible creative projects for a given time-frame and word length;

• be able to use structure and style with economy and power across a range of genres.

All students will be required to give a workshop presentation during the semester and submit a draft proposal for the writing project including an outline and critical reflection of not more than 500 words and a draft sample of creative writing of not more than 500 words. These drafts will be returned with comments and resubmitted in a refined and extended form for final assessment of a writing project of not more than 3500 words total and critical reflection of not more than 500 words total 80% (due at the end of the semester), workshop participation 10% and a writer's notebook 10% (due at the end of the semester).

A subject reader will be available.