Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing)
- Develop practical skills working creatively on writing novels, poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction, memoir, and genre fiction.
- Learn from highly experienced and published authors, scholars, and experts in creative writing.
- Gain opportunities for exposure with internships at writers’ festivals, literary events, publishing houses, and public readings.
- Unique course structure allows you to engage in major transdisciplinary projects with creatives from other fields to develop transferable skills across a range of industries.
- Flexibility to design your creative writing degree to suit you with a choice of a second major or combination of other creative field majors, minors and course units across multiple subjects or consider one of our double degrees.
Why choose this course?
Writing is more central to our culture than ever before. The communication revolution demands written content – on the page, on the screen, and in new and evolving forms and spaces. Writers, storytellers and experts with nuanced and creative language are needed to provoke, entertain and connect to audiences in expanding ways. QUT offers the largest and most comprehensive undergraduate writing course in Queensland with the broadest range of units on offer.
This course will give you insight into the national contexts into which your writing will enter as well as the debates and ideas that are enlivening and challenging the ways in which writers create.
Real-world learning
Guest lectures from writers, editors and publishers will help you gain a unique perspective on writing as a vocation, and provide access to the industry and national writing communities. A thriving on-campus literary culture and associations with festivals and local publishing houses will keep you engaged with fellow travellers and industry tastemakers as you develop your craft. You will benefit from a transdisciplinary approach from the outset, encouraging you as a specialist creative writer to work in teams with others who have different creative skill sets. We aim to produce writers who not only have sophisticated writing skills, but who are critically engaged thinkers with knowledge about the debates and cultural contexts informing our practices today.
Visit the student and graduate blog to find out more about what it’s like to study creative arts and where a QUT degree can take you.
