106-025 Creative Writing 2: Across the Genres

It is recommended that students wishing to continue with a major in Creative Writing also complete a first year subject in English Literary Studies as well as meeting the first year Creative Writing prerequisite (see below). This is a compulsory subject for students undertaking the Graduate Diploma in Arts (Creative Writing) and for students wishing to complete a major in Creative Writing.

Usually 12.5 points of first year creative writing, either 106-186 Creative Writing: Autofictions or 760-101 Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice. This subject is available at second year level to Bachelor of Creative Arts students who have completed all first year BCA Creative Writing 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.

• gain particular generic skills and should be able to:

• use a range of techniques to tap creative ideas;

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

• 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 a short review, a project outline 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 4000 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). Students are required to attend a minimum of 75% of classes in order to have their work assessed in this subject.

A subject reader will be available from the University Bookshop.