At Notre Dame you can choose from a wide range of individual writing courses to suit your needs and interests or take a longer suite of courses as part of a postgraduate degree.
Whether you want to write fiction, break news stories or pen an award-winning play, this dynamic writing program will help you achieve your creative goals. Under the supervision of industry professionals, students learn the technical and creative skills they will need to succeed.
More information is available on our writing course offerings here.
Our Master of Arts (Writing) has been created to meet the needs of experienced writers who want to extend to develop their technical and critical skills. You will study writing practices across a range of forms and genres, including fiction, speechwriting, corporate writing and theatre. You will also create, critically revise, edit and publish your works in a simulated industry environment, under the guidance of writing professionals. In the second half the degree, students undertake a major writing project - developing an original work from creative concept to completed manuscript.
This course also meets the professional development needs of high school English teachers seeking to address the challenge posed by an expanded creative writing component in the new English HSC.
