CREA1022 Creative Writing Workshop

2020

4.5

1 x 2-hour lecture weekly

Admission into BCACW-Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing)

CRWR1100 has been successfully completed

Assignment(s), Tutorial participation

This topic offers Creative Writing students an introduction to producing, and workshopping, their creative writing at a university level. The emphasis in this topic is on reading and responding to published creative writing and for thinking about the critical concepts related to creative writing theory and to the discipline of creative writing.

There will also be opportunities for students to develop their editing skills, to produce their own creative pieces, and to listen to published writers talking about the crafting of writing and about related matters to do with the publishing industry.

This topic aims to

• introduce creative writing students to workshop processes

• provide students with the opportunity to develop skills in critiquing their own, and others’ writing

• encourage students to read and respond to published creative writing from local and international authors and from a range of literary styles and contexts

• explore and contextualise issues relevant to creative writing as a discipline

• let students hear industry professionals discuss aspects of the writing and publishing process

On completion of this topic students will be able to

• identify strengths and weakness is their own and others’ creative writing

• collaborate with peers to provide feedback on creative writing

• respond to feedback to their own writing and incorporate this into further drafts

• demonstrate the ability to respond critically to published creative writing and to identify techniques of the craft

• demonstrate a broad understanding of issues of significance to creative writing as a discipline

• demonstrate the ability to apply critical debates about writing to their own work and to think analytically and critically about their writing and about the discipline of creative writing