This year builds your essential skills and knowledge of modern writing. You'll be immersed in the culture - writing, reading, coming up with ideas and learning more about audiences and professional writing.

Modules

The Craft of Writing
Writing Toolkit
Reading as a Writer
Audience & Context
Introduction to Publishing
Writing as a Reader

You’ll experiment with everything from screenwriting to fiction, while developing your ability to come up with ideas, pitch, and collaborate on set and negotiated projects. Fulfilling set briefs, you’ll research, plan, work in teams with assigned roles, and think about how the audience or reader fits into your work.

Modules

Writing Project I
Writing Project II

Optional modules

Screenwriting Workshop
Poetry Workshop
Games & Digital Writing Workshop
Popular Fiction & Non-Fiction
Go Wild: Literature & Environment
Creative Non-Fiction Workshop
Fiction Workshop
Script Workshop: Radio & Theatre
Scandal & Censorship
Literary Tourism

You’ll collaborate with other students on live briefs, or with industry professionals on a work placement, learning first-hand how writers and writing fit into creative projects. And by building your creative portfolio, you’ll develop an extended piece of work or collection in a certain genre.

Modules

Collaborative Project
Creative Writing Portfolio
Transitions: Writer in the Marketplace

Optional modules

Lifestyle Writing Workshop
Travel, Place & Environment Writing Workshop
Children & Young Adult Writing Workshop
Global Voices
Reading the Digital