Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing)

A Bachelor of Creative Arts in Creative Writing teaches skills and strategies, so your writing is strong and clear. It helps you to express ideas in imaginative ways that will impact your readers.

In the digital age, writing is becoming more and more central to the way we communicate with each other. The Creative Writing major investigates the foundation for editing, writing across borders, genre and form, contemporary theory and research practice.

As well as your Creative Writing major, you must elect a minor or a second major from the Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. Creative writing pairs well with a major in English Literatures, Languages, Indigenous Studies or Philosophy.

Students will work on a major project allowing them to develop a significant piece of creative content on completion of their degree. Various artist and writer-in-residence programs take place throughout your degree You will be encouraged to participate in extracurricular activities, facilitate public readings, perform your written work and pursue publication.  

Creative writers work in a range of areas Poetry, editing, writing for multimedia, commercial and content writing, commercial theatre and performance, short stories and novels, or even in ways that combine or challenge these forms.