Creative Writing

Writing is much more than the ‘spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’. It is a craft and a discipline that requires patient apprenticeship, training and professional encouragement.

Creative Writing

Studying Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide will allow you to engage with teachers and writers with years of experience, award-winning publications and hundreds of hours in the classroom. You will be encouraged to experiment, share, revise and improve your work through continuous feedback and peer review. You will try your hand at many forms, including short stories, poems, life-writing and creative non-fiction, and  will develop and sustain your own life-long reflective writing practice. We are proud that Nobel Prize winner Prof. JM Coetzee has been associated with the Department for 20 years,  and that we have a strong connection to the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.

  • Our teaching

    The Department of English, Creative Writing and Film offers a large range of undergraduate courses in Creative Writing. Our introductory first-year course in ‘the Essentials’ equips you with most of the fundamental skills you will need to pursue writing at the highest levels. At senior levels, we offer a wide range of courses: The Short Story, Contemporary Poetry, Novel Writing, Travel Writing, Script-Writing, Posthuman Writing, Editing for Writers, Political Writing, Apocalypse Fiction, and more.  Come and sample what it is like to write a literary text … and stay for the major in Creative Writing!

  • Our people
    Name Role
    Associate Professor Bronwyn Law Viljoen

    Head of Department of English, Creative Writing and Film
    Professor Patrick Flanery Chair of Creative Writing
    Dr Ross Prosser Senior Lecturer
    Dr Georgia Rose Phillips Honours Creative Writing Coordinator
    Lecturer
    Dr Matt Hooton

    Senior Lecturer

  • Our research

    The Department of English and Creative Writing has a vibrant research culture, and contributes world-class monographs, research papers, and related outputs in many areas.

    We welcome all inquiries to study with us at postgraduate as well as undergraduate levels in Creative Writing.

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