This course examines creative prose from a writer's perspective, emphasising form, structure and narrative techniques. Immersion in a process of peer-critique and critical analysis of sample texts gives participants the opportunity to develop the skills required to write sophisticated and focused creative fiction.

1 x 2hr session per week over ten weeks as scheduled on MyCampus.  This will be split into 5 x 1hr seminars and fifteen hours of workshops.

This is one of the Honours options in English Literature and may not run every year. The options that are running this session are available on MyCampus.

ENGLIT4079 Creative Writing Fiction

ENGLIT4080 and ENGLIT4120 Creative Writing Hybrid Forms

ENGLIT4081 and ENGLIT4121 Creative Writing Poetry

The standard assessments for this course are: 

■ Portfolio of creative writing (4000 words): 90%  

■ Workshop and seminar contributions: 10% 

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available: 

■ There are no alternatives to the Portfolio, but flexible deadlines can be offered as reasonable adjustment (Students should follow the usual process for extensions). 

■ Written self-evaluation reflecting on seminar contribution or written response to seminar material in advance or after seminar as alternative to contribution.

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.  

This course will provide the opportunity to:

■ understand the methodologies of writing fiction

■ study narrative techniques at an introductory level

■ gain the ability to employ narrative perspective and voice

■ develop an assured understanding of narrative structure and form

■ acquire the analytical and linguistic tools for assessment and criticism.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ articulate a sophisticated knowledge of narrative technique and apply this in their own writing

■ evaluate the roles of perspective, voice, and character in contemporary fiction

■ appraise the structural and formal elements of fiction and apply these in their own writing

■ assess their own creative process while putting it in a larger and relevant context of creative practice

■ reflect constructively on the work of self and others in a workshop context.