masters of creative writing macquarie university

Master of Creative Writing

Macquarie university.

Type of institution: University/Higher Education Institution Level: Postgraduate CRICOS: 00002J

Creative writing - expressing yourself with flair and accuracy - is a key skill for life and most professions. If you love writing and reading literature and want to challenge yourself to develop your craft and technique, a degree in creative writing is your pathway to mastering effective non-fiction and creative writing. In the Master of Creative Writing, youll undertake intensive practical workshops across a range of genres, including young adult fiction, creative non-fiction, short story, novella, novel and poetry. And youll create, workshop and develop your writing with peers and our expert teachers.

Total Credit Points 80

• ENGL8010 Creative Writing Seminar: Narrative Fundamentals
• ENGL8015 Writing Creative Non-Fiction - An Introduction
• ENGL8022 Short Form Writing - short story, novella, poetry cycle
• ENGL8075 Professional Contexts of Literary and Feature Writing

Standard entry requirements

• AQF level 8 bachelor honours or graduate diploma qualification in a related field or recognised equivalent, or
• Meet two of the following three criteria: AQF level 7 bachelors qualification in a related field or recognised equivalent
• Approved work experience, professional certification or other recognised prior learning
• AQF level 7 bachelors qualification or recognised equivalent with a WAM of 65

Study information

Related courses

Master of Arts

University of the sunshine coast (unisc).

Diploma of Fashion HE20516V01

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production)

Queensland university of technology (qut).

Bachelor of Arts (Music Theatre)

Edith cowan university ecu.

Graduate Certificate in Arts

The university of melbourne, diploma in creative industries, request information update.

Become a member

Already a member? Login Forgot password?

Join the conversation

Search universities.

• Universities in ACT
• Universities in NSW
• Universities in QLD
• Universities in SA and NT
• Universities in TAS
• Universities in VIC
• Universities in WA

Search TAFE Institutes

• TAFEs in ACT
• TAFEs in NSW
• TAFEs in QLD
• TAFEs in SA and NT
• TAFEs in TAS
• TAFEs in VIC
• TAFEs in WA

Search by Field of Work

• Architecture, Building and Planning
• Create Arts and Design
• Computing and ICT
• Engineering and Technical
• Health and Community Services
• Hospitality and Tourism

• Search Jobs
• Search Employers
• Accounting and advisory
• Banking & financial services
• Charity, social work and volunteering
• Construction and property services
• Education and training
• Energy and utilities
• Engineering Consulting
• Entertainment, travel and hospitality
• Environment and agriculture
• Government & public services
• Management Consulting
• Media & Communications
• Mining, oil and gas
• R&D and manufacturing
• Recruitment & HR
• Retail, Sales & Consumer Goods
• Transport and logistics
• Career planning
• Interviews and assessments
• GenerationOne
• Moving guides
• The Launchpad
• Virtual Fairs
• Top 100 Employers
• All categories
• Application advice
• Career advice
• Interview tips
• Job opportunities
• Job search strategies
• Mental health
• Skills development
• Employers/Post job
• Institutions

Macquarie University

• 26% international / 74% domestic

Master of Creative Writing

Masters (Coursework)

Key details

About this course.

If you love writing and reading literature and want to challenge yourself to develop your craft and technique, a degree in creative writing is your pathway to mastering effective non-fiction and creative writing.

In the Master of Creative Writing, you'll undertake intensive practical workshops across a range of genres, including young adult fiction, creative non-fiction, short story, novella, novel and poetry. And you'll create, workshop and develop your writing with peers and our expert teachers.

• Learn from high-calibre teachers
• Apply your skills in a professional context
• Take part in weekly creative writing workshops
• Continue to work full-time while you study

Entry requirements

• AQF level 8 bachelor honours or graduate diploma qualification in a related field or recognised equivalent, OR
• AQF level 7 bachelor's qualification in a related field or recognised equivalent
• Approved work experience, professional certification or other recognised prior learning
• AQF level 7 bachelor's qualification or recognised equivalent with a WAM of 65.

Study locations

Career pathways.

Professions include:

• Adult fiction author
• Content specialist
• Cross-platform producer
• Editor or publisher
• Media manager
• Screenwriter
• Teacher (after further study)
• Technical writer
• Travel writer
• Young adult fiction author.

Course structure

This degree comprises of eight compulsory units (80 credit points).

Refer to the Course Structure for more information and details on specific units.

Graduate outcomes

• Universities & Partners
• Our Network
• Partner Terms
• General Terms
• Advertiser Terms
• Privacy Policy
• Become Partner
• Knowledge Base
• Employer Login
• Student Login / Sign-up
• Prosple Forum
• Law Graduate Jobs & Programs
• Engineering Graduate Jobs & Programs
• Accounting Graduate Jobs & Programs
• Graduate Jobs & Programs in Sydney
• Graduate Jobs & Programs in Melbourne
• Graduate Jobs & Programs in Perth
• Law & Legal Clerkships and Internships
• Engineering Internships
• Accounting Internships
• Internships in Sydney
• Internships in Melbourne
• Information Technology (IT) Internships
• Internships in Perth
• International student jobs in Australia
• Commonwealth Bank
• How to write a winning cover letter
• Top tips from Graduates of KPMG
• The Westpac student application process
• Prosple Canada
• Prosple India
• Prosple Indonesia
• Prosple Malaysia
• Prosple New Zealand
• Prosple Nigeria
• Prosple Philippines
• Prosple Singapore
• Prosple United Kingdom
• Prosple United States
• All Regions

Copyright 2024 © Prosple Australia/GradAustralia. Graduate Jobs, Internships & Programs in Australia

Top Streams

• Data Science Courses in USA
• Business Analytics Courses in USA
• Engineering Courses in USA
• Tax Courses in USA
• Healthcare Courses in USA
• Language Courses in USA
• Insurance Courses in USA
• Digital Marketing Courses in USA

Top Specialization

• Masters in Data Analytics in USA
• Masters in Mechanical Engineering in USA
• Masters in Supply Chain Management in USA
• Masters in Computer Science in USA
• MBA in Finance in USA
• Masters in Architecture in USA

Top Universities

• Cornell University
• Yale University
• Princeton University
• University of California Los Angeles
• University of Harvard
• Stanford University
• Arizona State University
• Northeastern University
• Scholarships to Study in USA
• Project Management Courses in Australia
• Accounting Courses in Australia
• Medical Courses in Australia
• Psychology Courses in Australia
• Interior Designing Courses in Australia
• Pharmacy Courses in Australia
• Social Work Courses in Australia
• MBA in Australia
• Masters in Education in Australia
• Masters in Pharmacy in Australia
• Masters in Information Technology in Australia
• BBA in Australia
• Masters in Teaching in Australia
• Masters in Psychology in Australia
• University of Melbourne
• Deakin University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Monash University
• University of Sydney
• University of Queensland
• RMIT University
• Macquarie University
• PR Courses in Australia
• SOP for Australia Student Visa
• Data Science Courses in Canada
• Business Management Courses in Canada
• Supply Chain Management Courses in Canada
• Project Management Courses in Canada
• Business Analytics Courses in Canada
• Hotel Management Courses in Canada
• MBA in Canada
• MS in Canada
• Masters in Computer Science in Canada
• Masters in Management in Canada
• Masters in Psychology in Canada
• Masters in Education in Canada
• MBA in Finance in Canada
• Masters in Business Analytics in Canada
• University of Toronto
• University of British Columbia
• McGill University
• University of Alberta
• York University
• University of Calgary
• Algoma University
• University Canada West
• IELTS requirement for Canada Student Visa
• Canada Visa Interview
• Top cities in Canada for International Students
• Project Management Courses in UK
• Data Science Courses in UK
• Public Health Courses in UK
• Digital Marketing Courses in UK
• Hotel Management Courses in UK
• Nursing Courses in UK
• Medicine Courses in UK
• Interior Designing Courses in UK
• Masters in Computer Science in UK
• Masters in Psychology in UK
• MBA in Finance in UK
• MBA in Healthcare Management in UK
• Masters in Education in UK
• Masters in Marketing in UK
• MBA in HR in UK
• University of Oxford
• University of Cambridge
• Coventry University
• University of East London
• University of Hertfordshire
• University of Birmingham
• Imperial College London
• University of Glasgow

Top Resources

• Universities in Germany
• Study in Germany
• Masters in Germany
• Courses in Germany
• Bachelors in Germany
• Germany Job Seeker Visa
• Cost of Living in Germany
• Best Universities in Germany

Top Courses

• Masters in Data Science in Germany
• MS in Computer Science in Germany
• Marine Engineering in Germany
• MS Courses in Germany
• Masters in Psychology in Germany
• Hotel Management Courses in Germany
• Masters in Economics in Germany
• Paramedical Courses in Germany
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• University of Bonn
• University of Freiburg
• University of Hamburg
• University of Stuttgart
• Saarland University
• Mannheim University
• MBA in Ireland
• Phd in Ireland
• Masters in Computer Science Ireland
• Cyber Security in Ireland
• Masters in Data Analytics Ireland
• Ms in Data Science in Ireland
• Pharmacy courses in ireland
• Business Analytics Course in Ireland
• Universities in Ireland
• Study in Ireland
• Masters in Ireland
• Courses in Ireland
• Bachelors in Ireland
• Cost of Living in Ireland
• Ireland Student Visa
• Part Time Jobs in Ireland
• Trinity College Dublin
• University College Dublin
• Dublin City University
• University of Limerick
• Dublin Business School
• Maynooth University
• University College Cork
• National College of Ireland

Colleges & Courses

• Masters in France
• Phd in France
• Study Medicine in France
• Best Universities in Frankfurt
• Best Architecture Colleges in France
• ESIGELEC France
• Study in France for Indian Students
• Intakes in France
• SOP for France Visa
• Study in France from India
• Reasons to Study in France
• How to Settle in France

More About France

• Cost of Living in France
• France Study Visa
• Cost of Living in Frankfurt
• France Scholarship for Indian Students
• Part Time Jobs in France
• Stay Back in France After Masters

About Finland

• Universities in Finland
• Study in Finland
• Courses in Finland
• Bachelor Courses in Finland
• Masters Courses in Finland
• Cost of Living in Finland
• MS in Finland
• Average Fees in Finland Universities
• PhD in Finland
• Jobs in Finland
• Bachelor Degree in Medicine & Surgery
• MBBS Courses in Georgia
• MBBS Courses in Russia
• Alte University
• Caucasus University
• Georgian National University SEU
• David Tvildiani Medical University
• Caspian International School Of Medicine
• Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University
• Kyrgyz State Medical Academy
• Cremeia Federal University
• Bashkir State Medical University
• Kursk State Medical University
• Andijan State Medical Institute
• IELTS Syllabus
• IELTS Prepration
• IELTS Eligibility
• IELTS Test Format
• IELTS Band Descriptors
• IELTS Speaking test
• IELTS Writing Task 1
• IELTS score validity
• IELTS Cue Card

IELTS Reading Answers Sample

• Animal Camouflage
• Types Of Societies
• Australia Convict Colonies
• A Spark A Flint
• Emigration To The Us
• The History Of Salt
• Zoo Conservation Programmes
• The Robots Are Coming
• The Development Of Plastic

IELTS Speaking Cue Card Sample

• Describe A Puzzle You Have Played
• Describe A Long Walk You Ever Had
• Describe Your Favourite Movie
• Describe A Difficult Thing You did
• Describe A Businessman You Admire
• Memorable Day in My Life
• Describe Your Dream House
• Describe A Bag You Want to Own
• Describe a Famous Athlete You Know
• Aquatic Animal

IELTS Essay Sample Sample

• Best Education System
• IELTS Opinion Essay
• Agree or Disagree Essay
• Problem Solution Essays
• Essay on Space Exploration
• Essay On Historical Places
• Essay Writing Samples
• Tourism Essay
• Global Warming Essay
• GRE Exam Fees
• GRE Exam Syllabus
• GRE Exam Eligibility
• Sections in GRE Exam
• GRE Exam Benefits
• GRE Exam Results
• GRE Cutoff for US Universities
• GRE Preparation
• Send GRE scores to Universities

GRE Exam Study Material

• GRE Verbal Preparation
• GRE Study Material
• GRE AWA Essays
• GRE Sample Issue Essays
• Stanford University GRE Cutoff
• Harvard University GRE Cutoff
• GRE Quantitative Reasoning
• GRE Verbal Reasoning
• GRE Reading Comprehension
• Prepare for GRE in 2 months

Other Resources

• Documents Required For Gre Exam
• GRE Exam Duration
• GRE at Home
• GRE vs GMAT
• Improve GRE Verbal Scores

Free GRE Ebooks

• GRE Preparation Guide (Free PDF)
• GRE Syllabus (Free PDF)
• GMAT Eligibility
• GMAT Syllabus
• GMAT Exam Dates
• GMAT Registration
• GMAT Exam Fees
• GMAT Sections
• GMAT Purpose

GMAT Exam Study Material

• How to prepare for GMAT?
• GMAT Score Validity
• GMAT Preparation Books
• GMAT Preparation
• GMAT Exam Duration
• GMAT Score for Harvard
• GMAT Reading Comprehension
• GMAT Retake Strategy

Free GMAT Ebooks

• GMAT Guide PDF
• Download GMAT Syllabus PDF
• TOEFL Exam Registration
• TOEFL Exam Eligibility
• TOEFL Exam Pattern
• TOEFL Exam Preparation
• TOEFL Exam Tips
• TOEFL Exam Dates
• Documents for TOEFL Exam
• TOEFL Exam Fee

TOEFL Exam Study Material

• TOEFL Preparation Books
• TOEFL Speaking Section
• TOEFL Score and Results
• TOEFL Writing Section
• TOEFL Reading Section
• TOEFL Listening Section
• TOEFL Vocabulary
• Types of Essays in TOEFL

Free TOEFL Ebooks

• TOEFL Exam Guide (Free PDF)
• PTE Exam Dates
• PTE Exam Syllabus
• PTE Exam Eligibility Criteria
• PTE Test Centers in India
• PTE Exam Pattern
• PTE Exam Fees
• PTE Exam Duration
• PTE Exam Registration

PTE Exam Study Material

• PTE Exam Preparation
• PTE Speaking Test
• PTE Reading Test
• PTE Listening Test
• PTE Writing Test
• PTE Essay Writing
• PTE exam for Australia

Free PTE Ebooks

• PTE Syllabus (Free PDF)
• Duolingo Exam
• Duolingo Test Eligibility
• Duolingo Exam Pattern
• Duolingo Exam Fees
• Duolingo Test Validity
• Duolingo Syllabus
• Duolingo Preparation

Duolingo Exam Study Material

• Duolingo Exam Dates
• Duolingo Test Score
• Duolingo Test Results
• Duolingo Test Booking

Free Duolingo Ebooks

• Duolingo Guide (Free PDF)
• Duolingo Test Pattern (Free PDF)

NEET & MCAT Exam

• NEET Study Material
• NEET Preparation
• MCAT Eligibility
• MCAT Preparation

SAT & ACT Exam

• ACT Eligibility
• ACT Exam Dates
• SAT Syllabus
• SAT Exam Pattern
• SAT Exam Eligibility

USMLE & OET Exam

• USMLE Syllabus
• USMLE Preparation
• USMLE Step 1
• OET Syllabus
• OET Eligibility
• OET Prepration

PLAB & LSAT Exam

• PLAB Exam Syllabus
• PLAB Exam Fees
• LSAT Eligibility
• LSAT Registration
• PLAB Accepted Countries
• TOEIC Result
• Study Guide

Application Process

• LOR for Masters
• SOP Samples for MS
• LOR for Phd
• SOP for Internship
• SOP for Phd
• Check Visa Status
• Motivation Letter Format
• Motivation Letter for Internship
• F1 Visa Documents Checklist

Career Prospects

• Popular Courses after Bcom in Abroad
• Part Time Jobs in Australia
• Part Time Jobs in USA
• Salary after MS in Germany
• Salary after MBA in Canada
• Average Salary in Singapore
• Higher Studies after MBA in Abroad
• Study in Canada after 12th
• Most Demanding Engineering Fields

Trending Topics

• Best Education System in World
• Best Flying Schools in World
• Top Free Education Countries
• Best Countries to Migrate from India
• 1 Year PG Diploma Courses in Canada
• Germany Post Study Work Visa
• Post Study Visa in USA
• Packing List for Indian Students
• Data Science Vs Data Analytics
• Public Vs Private Universities in Germany
• Universities Vs Colleges
• Difference Between GPA and CGPA
• Undergraduate Vs Graduate
• MBA in UK Vs MBA in USA
• Degree Vs Diploma in Canada
• IELTS vs TOEFL
• Duolingo English Test vs. IELTS
• Canada Vs India
• Why Study in Canada
• Cost of Living in Canada
• Education System in Canada
• SOP for Canada
• Summer Intake in Canada
• Spring Intake in Canada
• Winter Intake in Canada
• Accommodation in Canada for Students
• Average Salary in Canada
• Fully Funded Scholarships in Canada
• Why Study in USA
• Cost of Studying in USA
• Spring Intake in USA
• Winter Intake in USA
• Summer Intake in USA
• STEM Courses in USA
• Scholarships for MS in USA
• Acceptable Study Gap in USA
• Interesting Facts about USA
• Free USA course
• Why Study in UK
• Cost of Living in UK
• Cost of Studying in UK
• Education System in UK
• Summer Intake in UK
• Spring Intake in UK
• Student Visa for UK
• Accommodation in UK for Students
• Scholarships in UK
• Why Study in Germany
• Cost of Studying in Germany
• Education System in Germany
• SOP for Germany
• Summer Intake in Germany
• Winter Intake in Germany
• Study Visa for Germany
• Accommodation in Germany for Students
• Free Education in Germany

Country Guides

• Study in UK
• Study in Canada
• Study in USA
• Study in Australia
• SOP Samples for Canada Student Visa
• US F1 Visa Guide for Aspirants

Exams Guides

• Duolingo Test Pattern

Recommended Reads

• Fully Funded Masters Guide
• SOP Samples For Australia
• Scholarships for Canada
• Data Science Guide
• SOP for MS in Computer Science
• Study Abroad Exams
• Alumni Connect
• Booster Program
• Scholarship

GPA CALCULATOR Convert percentage marks to GPA effortlessly with our calculator!

Expense calculator plan your study abroad expenses with our comprehensive calculator, ielts band calculator estimate your ielts band score with our accurate calculator, education loan calculator discover your eligible loan amount limit with our education calculator, university partner explore growth and opportunities with our university partnership, accommodation discover your perfect study abroad accommodation here, experience-center discover our offline centers for a personalized experience, our offices visit us for expert study abroad counseling..

• 18002102030

• Master of Creative Writing at Macquarie University

Sydney, Australia Duration : 1 Year

Expenses aud inr, intake sessions, eligibility criteria.

• Exam Accepted

Similar Courses View All

Master of Arts Research Training

Monash university , australia, intake session.

Bachelor of Music (Classical Voice) (Honours)

The university of adelaide , australia.

Bachelor of Music (Jazz Performance) (Honours)

Courses in macquarie university.

• Graduate Diploma of Environment
• Master of Business Analytics and Master of Information Systems Management
• Master of Environment
• Master of Commerce
• Master of Actuarial Practice
• Graduate Certificate of TESOL
• Master of Media and Communications
• Master of Chiropractic
• Master of Conservation Biology
• Master of Criminology
• Graduate Diploma of Management
• Master of Clinical Audiology
• Graduate Diploma of Conservation Biology
• Master of Counter Terrorism and Master of Intelligence
• Master of International Relations
• Master of Applied Statistics
• Master of International Trade and Commerce Law
• Master of Banking and Finance
• Master of Creative Industries
• Master of Business Administration

Master of Creative Writing in Australia

• Bachelor of Visual Arts
• Master of Theatre (Directing)
• Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science
• Bachelor of Music/ Bachelor of Media (Public Relation & Advertising)
• Graduate Certificate in Music
• Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
• Master of Fine Arts (research)
• Master of Music (Performance Studies)
• Bachelor of Communication (Writing and Publishing) / Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation
• Bachelor of Creative Arts - Bachelor of Arts

Top Specialization in Australia

• MS in Pharmacy in Australia
• MS in Information Technology in Australia
• MS in Supply Chain Management in Australia
• MS in Computer Science in Australia
• MS in Business Analytics in Australia
• MS in Cyber Security in Australia
• MS in Civil Engineering in Australia
• MS in Data Science in Australia
• MS in Biotechnology in Australia
• MS in Mechanical Engineering in Australia
• MS in Construction Management in Australia
• MS in Data Analytics in Australia
• MS in Electrical Engineering in Australia
• MS in Structural Engineering in Australia
• MS in Project Management in Australia
• Bachelors in Nursing in Australia
• Bachelors in Information Technology in Australia
• Bachelors in Hotel Management in Australia
• Bachelors in Computer Science in Australia
• Bachelors in Hospitality Management in Australia
• Bachelors in Psychology in Australia
• Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering in Australia
• Bachelors in Pediatrics in Australia
• Bachelors in Psychology and Psychotherapy in Australia
• Bachelors in Psychiatry in Australia
• Bachelors in Plastic Surgery in Australia
• Bachelors in Physiology and Physiotherapy in Australia
• Bachelors in Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation in Australia
• Bachelors in Pharmacy in Australia
• Bachelors in Pulmonology in Australia

TRENDING SEARCHES

Popular courses, highest paying, editor's pick, more courses, rapidly growing.

• Bachelors in Mathematics at University of South Australia
• Bachelors in Management at The University of Notre Dame Australia
• BA in Media at UTS
• BS in Technology at UTS
• Bachelors in Management at University of Southern Queensland
• Bachelors in Mathematics at The University of Queensland Australia
• Bachelors in Management at Kaplan Business School Australia
• Bachelors in Management at Murdoch University
• Masters in Agriculture at University of Tasmania
• Masters in Animation at UTS
• MS in Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
• MS in Management at Carnegie Mellon University
• Bachelors in Management at Australian National Institute of Management and Commerce
• Diploma in Psychiatry at University of Sydney
• Bachelors in Management at RMIT University
• BA in Sustainable Development at Murdoch University
• BA in Social Work at University of Sydney
• BS in Teaching at UTS
• Diploma in Science at University of Sydney
• Diploma in Science at The University of Melbourne
• BS in Psychology at University of Canberra
• BS in Technology at University of Tasmania
• Masters in Veterinary Science at The University of Melbourne
• Bachelors in Sports at Edith Cowan University
• Bachelors in Fashion at Flinders University
• BS in Veterinary at Murdoch University
• Masters in Bioinformatics at Deakin University
• Bachelors in Philosophy at Australian National University
• Diploma in Science at James Cook University Brisbane
• Diploma in Science at Deakin University
• Masters in Public Relations at The University of New South Wales
• Bachelors in Criminal Justice at The University of New South Wales
• Diploma in Science at UTS
• Diploma in Science at The University of New South Wales
• Bachelors in Criminal Justice at The University of Queensland Australia
• Masters in Microbiology at RMIT University
• Bachelors in Philosophy at University of Western Australia
• BS in Teaching at Queensland University of Technology
• Masters in Quantitative Finance at UTS
• Bachelors in Philosophy at Monash University
• BS in Sports at Edith Cowan University
• Diploma in Information System at University of Southern Queensland
• Bachelors in Sports at Bond University
• Diploma in Science at The University of Queensland Australia
• Masters in Bioinformatics at University of South Australia
• Bachelors in Criminal Justice at Swinburne University of Technology
• Bachelors in Sociology at University of Wollongong, Australia
• Masters in Bioinformatics at La Trobe University
• BA in Law at James Cook University Brisbane
• Diploma in Science at Queensland University of Technology
• Bachelors in Sports at Australian Catholic University ACU
• Bachelors in Software Engineering at Torrens University Australia
• Bachelors in Philosophy at La Trobe University
• Bachelors in Marketing at University of Wollongong, Australia
• Bachelors in Software Engineering at University of Canberra
• Bachelors in Marketing at Torrens University Australia
• BA in Law at University of Wollongong, Australia
• Bachelors in Criminal Justice at Griffith University
• Bachelors in Marketing at International College of Management, Sydney
• Bachelors in Media at RMIT University
• Bachelors in Media at La Trobe University
• Bachelors in Media at Monash University
• Bachelors in Media at Swinburne University of Technology
• Bachelors in Sports at University of New England
• Bachelors in Media at UTS
• Masters in Environmental Science and Management at University of New England
• BA in Technology at UTS
• MEng in Mechanical Engineering at The University of New South Wales
• Bachelors in Media at Macquarie University
• BS in Law at UTS
• Study Abroad
• Universities

All information provided on this page is for general use and upGrad Abroad is not responsible for any errors or omissions. The Universities involved in this Program are accredited/recognized in the countries where they are established. Relevant terms and conditions apply. Any action taken upon the information found on this website is strictly at your own risk.

Call us to clear your doubts at:

• Grievance Redressal
• Terms of Use
• Privacy Policy
• Report a Vulnerability
• University Partner
• Accommodation
• IELTS Band Calculator
• Download Study Abroad App
• Education Loan Calculator
• upGrad Abroad Office
• Expense Calculator
• Knowledge Base
• Business Partner

Top Destinations

Masters programs.

• MBA in Germany, IU
• MIM in Germany, IU
• MS in CS in Germany, IU
• MS in Data Analytics in USA, Clark University
• MS in Project Management in USA, Clark University
• MS in IT in USA, Clark University
• MS in Data Analytics & Visualization in USA, Yeshiva University
• MS in Artificial Intelligence in USA, Yeshiva University
• MS in Cybersecurity, Yeshiva University

Study Abroad Important Blogs

• Cost of Study:
• Cost of Studying in Canada
• Cost of Studying in Ireland
• Cost of Studying in Australia
• Cost of living:
• Cost of living in UK
• Cost of living in Australia
• Cost of living in Germany
• Cost of living in Ireland
• Cost of living in Canada
• Cost of Living in Singapore
• Cost of Living in Netherlands
• Career Opportunities:
• Career Opportunities in Australia
• Career Opportunities in Germany
• Job Opportunities in After MS in Canada
• Job Opportunities After MBA in Australia
• Job Opportunities After MS in UK
• IELTS Exam Resources:
• IELTS Registration
• Academic IELTS
• IELTS Band Score
• IELTS Writing Task 2
• IELTS Slot Booking
• IELTS Band Score Chart
• IELTS Score for UK
• IELTS Score for USA
• Validity of IELTS Score
• IELTS Speaking Topics
• IELTS Reading Tips
• How to Prepare for IELTS at Home Without Coaching
• IELTS Preparation Books
• Types of IELTS Exam
• IELTS Academic vs General
• IELTS Exam Fee
• IELTS Exam Pattern
• IELTS Results
• IELTS Essay
• IELTS Exam Dates
• Top Streams:
• Fashion Designing Courses in Australia
• Accounting Courses in Canada
• Management Courses in Canada

• News and articles
• Find us Find nearest IDP offices IDP Australia IDP Bahrain IDP Bangladesh IDP Cambodia IDP Canada IDP China IDP Egypt IDP Ghana IDP Hong Kong IDP India IDP Indonesia IDP Iran IDP Jordan IDP Kenya IDP Korea IDP Kuwait IDP Lebanon IDP Malaysia IDP Mauritius IDP Middle East IDP Nepal IDP New Zealand IDP Nigeria IDP Oman IDP Pakistan IDP Philippines IDP Saudi Arabia IDP Singapore IDP Sri Lanka IDP Taiwan IDP Thailand IDP Turkey IDP UAE IDP Vietnam IDP Corporate
• Where we operate
• Africa IDP Egypt IDP Ghana IDP Kenya IDP Nigeria
• Europe IDP Turkey
• Middle East IDP Bahrain IDP Iran IDP Jordan IDP Kuwait IDP Lebanon IDP Middle East IDP Oman IDP Pakistan IDP Saudi Arabia IDP UAE
• North America IDP Canada
• North Asia IDP Hong Kong IDP Korea IDP Taiwan
• Oceania IDP Australia IDP New Zealand
• South Asia IDP Bangladesh IDP India IDP Mauritius IDP Nepal IDP Sri Lanka
• South East Asia IDP Cambodia IDP Indonesia IDP Malaysia IDP Philippines IDP Singapore IDP Thailand IDP Vietnam
• New Zealand
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Courses by subject
• Scholarships
• Vocational (VET)
• University Preparation
• Undergraduate
• Postgraduate and Masters
• History of IDP
• Frequently asked Questions
• Arrival services
• Money transfer
• Student health cover
• Student banking
• Accommodation
• Find nearest IDP offices
• IDP Australia
• IDP Bahrain
• IDP Bangladesh
• IDP Cambodia
• IDP Hong Kong
• IDP Indonesia
• IDP Lebanon
• IDP Malaysia
• IDP Mauritius
• IDP Middle East
• IDP New Zealand
• IDP Nigeria
• IDP Pakistan
• IDP Philippines
• IDP Saudi Arabia
• IDP Singapore
• IDP Sri Lanka
• IDP Thailand
• IDP Vietnam
• IDP Corporate
• IDP Education /
• Colleges and Universities /
• Australia /
• Macquarie University /
• Master of Creative Writing ...
• Macquarie University

Master of Creative Writing (1 year)

At macquarie university.

Qualification

• Masters Degree (Coursework)

Next intake

17 February 2025

Entry Score

About the course

Creative writing expressing yourself with flair and accuracy is a key skill for life and most professions. If you love writing and reading literature and want to challenge yourself to develop your craft and technique, a degree in creative writing is your pathway to mastering effective non-fiction and creative writing. In the Master of Creative Writing, youll undertake intensive practical workshops across a range of genres, including young adult fiction, creative non-fiction, short story, novella, novel and poetry. And youll create, workshop and develop your writing with peers and our expert teachers. Learn from high-calibre teachers Be taught by published writers and teachers who are winners of university teaching awards. Apply your skills in a professional context Add value to your writing through a suite of editing and publishing units, and undertake professional projects. Take part in weekly creative writing workshops Benefit from peer feedback and discussion, and create an e-portfolio of your work. Continue to work full-time while you study Study on campus or online or a combination of both and effectively manage your studies and work or family commitments.

• Scholarships View all scholarships
• Internships

Start dates and prices

Course fees are indicative and should be used as a guide. to get an accurate price.

Duration: 1 Year (s)

Fees: AUD 41400

How to apply

Entry requirements for macquarie university, application deadline.

The application deadline isn't available Speak to an IDP counsellor for more detailed information

Further information

If you aren't eligible for the above entry requirements, you might ant to explore pathway options at Macquarie University . If you want to find out more, speak to our counsellors.

Career outcomes

Pathway options to study at this institution

Reviews and rankings

The world ranking.

180 th / 1250

What our students think

We’ve haven’t received any reviews for this institution yet.

CIRCOS_CODE : 099160K

More about Macquarie University

Calculate your cost of living in

Recommended for you

• Scholarship
• Masters Degree (Research)
• Kuching , Australia
• Next intake:12/2024
• Entry Score: IELTS 6.5
• MYR36080 (2024)
• THE World Ranking:351
• Springfield , Australia
• Next intake:05/2025
• AUD33600 (2024)
• THE World Ranking:251
• Graduate Diploma
• Online , Australia
• Next intake:03/2025
• AUD33800 (2024)
• THE World Ranking:201
• Melbourne , Australia
• AUD33280 (2024)
• THE World Ranking:180
• Sydney , Australia
• Next intake:07/2024
• Entry Score: IELTS 7.0
• AUD41400 (2024)
• Next intake:02/2025
• AUD37900 (2024)
• THE World Ranking:84
• Next intake:09/2024
• AUD31976 (2024)
• AUD39360 (2024)

Your action plan

Shortlist your courses.

Choose the best three courses you’re most likely to pursue.

Check your eligibility

Get an instant in-principle offer for courses with the IDP FastLane tag.

Apply through IDP Live

Fill out the form once and use it to apply to multiple courses.

How does IDP FastLane work?

With the FastLane 'Offer in Principle', you'll know in minutes if you'll be accepted!

Select an institution and course

Create your academic profile

Submit your application for an 'Offer in Principle'

Your chosen institution(s) will send you a decision in minutes!

Get ready to apply with an expert counsellor

Master of Creative Writing (OUA)

80 credit points.

Skip to Content

Current Students

Interested in more? Search Courses

• Search Input Submit Search

Admission Steps

Professional writing - professional creative nonfiction writing - ma, admission requirements.

Terms and Deadlines

Degree and GPA Requirements

Additional Standards for Non-Native English Speakers

Additional standards for international applicants.

For the 2025-2026 academic year

See 2024-2025 requirements instead

Fall 2025 quarter (beginning in September)

Final submission deadline: August 1, 2025

International submission deadline: May 5, 2025

Winter 2026 quarter (beginning in January)

Final submission deadline: November 21, 2025

International submission deadline: September 8, 2025

Spring 2026 quarter (beginning in March)

Final submission deadline: February 13, 2026

International submission deadline: December 8, 2025

Summer 2026 quarter (beginning in June)

Final submission deadline: May 1, 2026

International submission deadline: February 23, 2026

Final submission deadline: Applicants cannot submit applications after the final submission deadline.

Degrees and GPA Requirements

Bachelors degree: All graduate applicants must hold an earned baccalaureate from a regionally accredited college or university or the recognized equivalent from an international institution.

University GPA requirement: The minimum grade point average for admission consideration for graduate study at the University of Denver must meet one of the following criteria:

A cumulative 2.5 on a 4.0 scale for the baccalaureate degree.

A cumulative 2.5 on a 4.0 scale for the last 60 semester credits or 90 quarter credits (approximately two years of work) for the baccalaureate degree.

An earned master’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited institution or the recognized equivalent from an international institution supersedes the minimum GPA requirement for the baccalaureate.

A cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for all graduate coursework completed for applicants who have not earned a master’s degree or higher.

Official scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), International English Language Testing System (IELTS), C1 Advanced or Duolingo English Test are required of all graduate applicants, regardless of citizenship status, whose native language is not English or who have been educated in countries where English is not the native language. Your TOEFL/IELTS/C1 Advanced/Duolingo English Test scores are valid for two years from the test date.

The minimum TOEFL/IELTS/C1 Advanced/Duolingo English Test score requirements for this degree program are:

Minimum TOEFL Score (Internet-based test): 80 with minimum of 20 on each subscore

Minimum IELTS Score: 6.5 with minimum of 6.0 on each band score

Minimum C1 Advanced Score: 176

Minimum Duolingo English Test Score: 115 with individual subscore minimum of 105 for Literacy, Comprehension, and Conversation and minimum subscore of 95 for Production.

Additional Information:

Read the English Language Proficiency policy for more details.

Read the Required Tests for GTA Eligibility policy for more details.

Per Student & Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) regulation, international applicants must meet all standards for admission before an I-20 or DS-2019 is issued, [per U.S. Federal Register: 8 CFR § 214.3(k)] or is academically eligible for admission and is admitted [per 22 C.F.R. §62]. Read the Additional Standards For International Applicants policy for more details.

Application Materials

Transcripts, letters of recommendation.

Required Essays and Statements

Writing Sample

We require a scanned copy of your transcripts from every college or university you have attended. Scanned copies must be clearly legible and sized to print on standard 8½-by-11-inch paper. Transcripts that do not show degrees awarded must also be accompanied by a scanned copy of the diploma or degree certificate. If your academic transcripts were issued in a language other than English, both the original documents and certified English translations are required.

Transcripts and proof of degree documents for postsecondary degrees earned from institutions outside of the United States will be released to a third-party international credential evaluator to assess U.S. education system equivalencies. Beginning July 2023, a non-refundable fee for this service will be required before the application is processed.

Upon admission to the University of Denver, official transcripts will be required from each institution attended.

Recommendations are optional and not required as part of admission materials. The admission committee reserves the right to request recommendations when reviewing an admission application.

Essays and Statements

Personal statement instructions.

At University College, we strive to foster a collaborative and engaging learning environment that emphasizes the practical application of knowledge and supports self-directed, motivated learners. Our programs are designed to build upon the unique background and experiences of adult learners.   A personal statement (two pages double-spaced, 450-500 words) written in your own words and unique voice, without the help of AI-based assistance, is required and should be submitted via the application status page. In your personal statement please answer the following questions: 1. How does your chosen program/concentration align with your personal and professional goals? 2. In what ways will your work experiences, professional background, previous education, or other lived experiences enable you to contribute to an engaging learning environment?

Résumé Instructions

The résumé (or C.V.) should include work experience, research, and/or volunteer work.

Writing Sample Instructions

The Master of Arts in Professional Creative Writing requires a sample of your creative writing, preferably in the genre of the concentration to which you are applying. The sample may comprise 2-3 double-spaced pages of prose (fiction or creative nonfiction), 30-40 single- or double-spaced lines of poetry, or 1-2 single-spaced pages of dramatic writing (monologue, play, or screenplay).

Start the Application

Online Application

Financial Aid Information

Start your application.

Your submitted materials will be reviewed once all materials and application fees have been received.

Our program can only consider your application for admission if our Office of Graduate Education has received all your online materials and supplemental materials by our application deadline.

Application Fee: $75.00 Application Fee

International Degree Evaluation Fee: $50.00 Evaluation Fee for degrees (bachelor's or higher) earned from institutions outside the United States.

Applicants should complete their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by February 15. Visit the Office of Financial Aid for additional information.

• Stories of Impact
• Gift Announcements
• Featured Series
• Donor Recognition
• Giving Home
• Give Now 

Podcast: Wolfpack Writing With Belle Boggs

On the Season 4 premiere of the NC State Philanthropy Podcast, we’re joined by Belle Boggs — a professor of English in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University Faculty Scholar and former director of NC State’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program — to discuss how private support powers that program forward.

Creative writing at NC State is a two-year program consisting of workshops, interdisciplinary coursework and a final thesis of literary work. Our faculty poets and writers provide students with one-on-one attention, for a strong, supportive start to a creative life in words. The program is a small one, accepting about a dozen students each year, with six or seven students in fiction and another six or seven in poetry. It offers full funding in the form of a graduate teaching assistantship to all eligible admitted applicants.

Private support enables the program to go above and beyond what state funding provides, as this interview highlights, with the results helping NC State students as well as others across the state through outreach efforts. An especially transformative, $1 million gift to support creative writing was made in 2021 by the Tony Brown family — the largest gift ever received by a humanities department at NC State and one of the largest funded endowments in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

To learn more about NC State’s MFA in Creative Writing program and how you can be part of it — as a student or as a donor — please visit go.ncsu.edu/mfa . To hear even more stories of Wolfpack success, please subscribe to the NC State Philanthropy Podcast today through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean or Stitcher. Be sure to leave a comment and rating as well to let us know how we’re doing!

Theme Music ( 00:01 ):

Please listen carefully.

Taylor Pardue ( 00:07 ):

Welcome to the NC State Philanthropy Podcast, telling the world how we Think and Do through the support of our friends, alumni and more. I’m your host, Taylor Pardue.

On our season 4 premiere, we’re joined by Belle Boggs, the former director of NC State’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, to discuss how private support helps power it forward.

Thanks so much for joining us today, Belle. To kick things off, just tell listeners a little bit about yourself and what brought you to NC State.

Belle Boggs ( 00:50 ):

Thanks, Taylor, for having me. So, I am a fiction and non-fiction writer, and I have lived in North Carolina … I’m originally from Virginia, moved all over, but moved to North Carolina in 2005, so I’ve lived in North Carolina a while and have been at NC State since 2014. My teaching trajectory, it’s a little different from some of my colleagues, but it’s not that unusual for a creative writer. After my MFA program, I was living in New York City, and I joined a program called the New York City Teaching Fellows, and I taught in public schools in Brooklyn, and I continued doing that when we moved to North Carolina. I’ve taught everything from kindergarten through elementary, middle, high school, GED and in community-based programs, and now I teach graduate students and undergraduates here at State, so I’ve been here 10 years. I love it. I’m a huge Wolfpack fan. My daughters and I have season tickets.

My family and I have season tickets to the women’s basketball games, and my daughters both want to go to State, which I think is adorable. And so, yeah, those are some of the things that brought me here. I taught in a variety of capacities but was publishing and had not imagined that I would necessarily teach at the university level because I was not willing to move out of the state. After I moved to North Carolina, I quickly found that it was my home and [got] involved in some community things and just really loved the landscape here. I live near the Haw River, and I love it, and I got very lucky that I was a visitor and then was lucky to be hired into the English department here, and I’ve been able to work with some extraordinary students, extraordinary colleagues and really wonderful supporters of our program.

Taylor Pardue ( 03:01 ):

Tell us a little bit about your work with the creative writing program, yes, over the years.

Belle Boggs ( 03:06 ):

Well, so, I teach fiction, nonfiction, creative nonfiction and some intro classes. I teach an intro class that is wonderful and has students coming from around the campus to take it. It’s an intro to creative writing class, and that is a training class for our graduate students who also teach the undergraduate 200-level creative nonfiction, intro to creative writing, intro to fiction, intro to poetry. And, so, I get to teach things across a wide array of creative writing, and then I work with graduate students, and these are students who come to us from all over the country, all over the world. We have, very often have international students coming to study with us, and that is really enriching to our program and to the perspectives that our students are able to have, our North Carolina-based students, because we do have students who come directly from NC State into our graduate program, and so they then get to be exposed to people who are from Bangladesh or from England or from Nigeria, and this is just really enriching to their practice.

And then those students get to study with all of our wonderful faculty, the students who are coming from other countries working with the graduate students. I’ll meet some later today who we recruited back in the winter. Now they’re here, and they’re going to be thinking about what novels, what books of poetry, what essays they’re going to write while they’re here at State, and we’ll be working with ’em. They each get to work with all of the faculty that we have, but then we have really phenomenal faculty here and they get to study literature and they get to study outside of creative writing if they want, but then they also, in their second year, work very intensively with one faculty member in their genre. So, for me, that would be a fiction writer, and we work through the novel, the collection of stories that they’re going to produce by the end of their second year, which is also quite amazing that they produce a whole book of fiction or poetry by the end of two years with us where they’re also working very hard as teachers, too.

Taylor Pardue ( 05:39 ):

Do you feel like having lived multiple places across the country, taught in so many different ranges of ages, do you think that’s really helped you meet with these students where they’re coming from their different backgrounds and made for a better experience for you as well as for them?

Belle Boggs ( 05:54 ):

I hope so. I mean, for me, I see the teaching of creative writing, it is something that anyone can benefit from. Of course, our students are choosing to make this their career, and so they are incredibly talented, driven, ambitious. They’re going to write books. You don’t have to be someone who has the ambition to write a whole book in order to benefit from classes and education and creative writing. Tapping into that part of you that is creative, fanciful, truth-telling, experimental — maybe you came from this really small town that you really want to tell other people about, or you lived in this very particular neighborhood and in a city and you want to tell people about that, or you traveled and you want to turn that into a short story or a poem. That experience is something that our students, while teaching here and while teaching very serious undergraduate students, also can use in other ways. So, they can use it if they choose to teach in high school for a while after they graduate or an elementary school for a while after they graduate or if they choose to teach in the community.

This past year, we had students working with me in a class called Teaching Artists Practicum, and we were exploring the different ways that creative writing practitioners, creative writers can go out into the community and find places where their needs … so, community centers, libraries, teen programs at libraries or high school programs, and they can go in and teach creative writing as kind of extracurricular, but also as this enhancing art form that helps those writers. I really think being a creative writer and working in creative writing can just help you become a more self-aware person in general. And so, that was our experience in this past fall. We worked with students at Oberlin Library. We worked with students at Jordan High School in Durham, and we were with three different groups of students, and they were all … some were adults, some were teens who go to, by choice, a library program, and some were high school students where we were just busting into their class.

And in each situation, the students, the graduate and undergraduate students that I worked with, had developed classes, lessons that were specifically geared to that audience, and they worked with the students, and they got to see how, “Oh, OK, this lesson, I’m going to change it a little bit next time, or I’m going to enhance it by adding this.” They could actually read more poems in a class, or they could, they were going to benefit from having music in the class, they’re going to benefit from having some other kind of art form connected to what they’re doing. And then we actually produce an anthology at the end of that, which is really great. It’s in multiple languages, and it’s artwork, and it is the product of … and it also includes reflections and description of the lessons that the students taught. And it is a product of that time and those spaces and the thinking that the graduate and undergraduate NC State students did as they thought through, “OK, when a creative writer goes to teach in the community, what are the steps? What are they thinking about? How can they be useful?”

And so, that’s, I think, one of the ways that I am a little bit different than some, or that’s just something that I bring that is particularly … a particular passion of mine is going into those community spaces where there might not have been a visiting writer, and you can be that visiting writer. For me, as a student, I grew up in a very rural part of Virginia, and we didn’t have a library in my county. We did not have a bookstore in my county. We did not have writers coming to visit. And I remember every extracurricular arts-based thing that my elementary, middle school did — every one of them, and high school, too, because it was so valuable to me. And I know that there are so many other writers and teachers who will say the same thing. They were in a school that didn’t … creative writing wasn’t a big part of what they did, but then they remember when they got to do it.

Taylor Pardue ( 10:45 ):

Obviously, sounds like outreach is a huge part of this program. I’m sure it differs between poetry, nonfiction, fiction, but, if there is a typical pathway through the curriculum and everything, what does the typical two years look like for a student?

Belle Boggs ( 10:58 ):

Oh, that’s a great question. I don’t think there is a typical two years. I mean, there are some things that are the same and that our students in fiction and poetry … so, most of our students will come through the program and they’ll write some nonfiction and some creative nonfiction because they’ll take Elaine Orr’s memoir class, or they’ll take a personal essay class with me, or they’ll take a class with LaTanya McQueen that ask them to write craft essays, for example. So, they will have that experience, but they’re studying fiction and poetry, and they will teach either creative writing, or they’ll teach first-year writing, which also has some creative elements to it, but they don’t teach in their second year. In their first year, they’re training to teach. So, they are learning pedagogy, they’re practicing, they’re engaging with students in one way or another in a very structured way.

And then they also, along the way, may have some other opportunities to work with, for example, honors students. We have a great relationship with the honors program, and so, sometimes our students will be invited to lead small discussion groups. They might lead small discussion groups at Oberlin Library because they’re invited to do that. That’s actually something that we were invited to do with teen writers again this fall. So, they may do that in their first or their second year, but they don’t have primary responsibility for teaching a class until their second year. And they’re taking classes, of course, they’re taking workshop classes, they’re taking literature classes. They’re taking craft classes. And if they have a particular interest in something outside of the English department, they may take a class there, too. And then in their second year, they’re continuing to take classes. They’re really working on their books and they’re teaching.

So, the second year gets really intense because you are in charge of your own classroom. You’re the instructor of record with a group of bright and expectant undergraduates, and then you’re also working really hard on your own book, and you’re also taking classes still. And you might also be applying for fellowships and applying for creative writing, teaching jobs and other kinds of opportunities. Some of our students go on to do Fulbrights, they go on to right after graduation. Some of them go on to do fellowships, residential or otherwise; some of them go right into teaching. Occasionally, they’ll come right into teaching at NC State. And so, we still get to see them, which is awesome, but they’re starting to think about that path also. So, the second year is really busy.

Taylor Pardue ( 13:35 ):

It sounds like it, yeah. What role does philanthropy play in all of this? It sounds like there are so many different giving opportunities.

Belle Boggs ( 13:41 ):

Exactly. So, philanthropic giving has played a huge impact on what we’re able to do in our program. And I didn’t talk about one of the things that we do, and so this is a good opportunity to do that. We also run a reading series, so we offer to the whole university as well as the community, because all of our events are free and open to the public, we offer between six and eight readings a year with incredible writers. We’ve had Percival Everett; we’ve had Sharon Olds; we’ve had Billy Collins before I was here. We have amazing new writers sometimes who graduated from our own program, like Tyree Daye or Sarah Grunder Ruiz, who still teaches in our first-year writing program and is [a] phenomenally productive writer. And Tyree is an incredibly talented poet as well who teaches at [the University of North] Carolina.

So, those opportunities don’t come for free, right? They’re free to the audience, but we believe very strongly in paying artists for their work and expertise. And, of course, we have to get them here, the reading series that we have. And we also run two contests that are connected to a fall reading and a spring reading; that takes money. And for many years we’ve been supported by, for a while it was annual gifts from the Brown family, and the Brown family very generously made a transformative gift to us. I believe it was in 2020. I mean, I remember where I was when I got the news. It’s such a powerful experience. I mean, it does a few things, right? First of all, you know, “Oh, OK, we’re going to be able to continue doing all of the things that we know are really valuable for the community, for the university and for our graduate students.” And then you think, “Oh, this also means that someone believes that we’re doing a good job.”

And you have that wind at your back, that vote of confidence that what you’re doing matters and that what you’re doing is valuable, and that is incredibly joyous. And so, the Brown family’s gift has helped us do everything from when I’ve mentioned that program that we did at Oberlin and Jordan High School. We produced anthologies and printed them, and we could not have done that without the gift from the Brown family. So, we were able to use Brown family funds to pay for those anthologies. They weren’t that expensive, they turned out beautiful, but it’s difficult to pay for things like that when all of the university funding that you have really needs to go to things like graduate student stipends. And we have other gifts. The … Jane Craven, who is a graduate of our program and also an incredible poet, she noticed that the students really benefited from travel and from travel to conferences, particularly the AWP [Association of Writers and Writing Programs] Conference, which is the major conference in our field, and it’s expensive to travel, so it’s very hard to do it as a graduate student.

And so, she and her husband gave a gift that is specifically designed to help support students when they travel. And so, we’re able to combine that with money that comes to us from the graduate school and sometimes from the English department to all the students who want to go to AWP every year or want to go to a conference every year and say, “OK, we can give you this amount of money to help you with your journey.” And so, maybe we can’t pay for all of that, but we get as close as we can. And so, another gift would also … when you give a gift, you can say, “Oh, I really want it to go to travel.” Or you could make it open-ended and say, “I want this to just support this program” and what you see as valuable. And that can go to everything from funding students to do things here on campus, like special programming connected to a reading that we have.

If we want to connect with honors or something like that, we can pay the students a stipend to run these, or an honorarium, I should say, to run these small groups. Or we can support students when they’re doing internships. We believe very strongly, in the same way that we believe in paying artists, we believe that our artists, our writers should be paid when they go to do things like internships at presses, which we have a lot of here in this area as well. But a lot of times presses can’t afford to pay their interns, so we can chip in and we can provide — a lot of times we just pay the whole internship for our students to go and get that experience. And so, that makes them better on the job market when they leave. It lets them know if this is something that they want to move into.

And then it helps the community, too, right? Because generally they’re doing something, they’re always doing something in the arts, something that supports writers and supports our literary culture. And so, we feel so grateful to the philanthropists who give to us in every way that we are donated to, makes a big difference to us. So, it’s all big ways. We’ve had faculty members — Wilton Barnhart made a gift to us years ago, and it continues to fund things like this contest that we run that is open and free for anyone in North Carolina. We have a … so, everyone should know, I don’t know what the dates are yet, but there’s a fall fiction contest and a spring poetry contest, and therefore, anyone in the state of North Carolina who has not published a book, and you just send in your stories. And we have one, a longer story contest, a shorter story contest, and then we have poetry contest in the spring, and those are judged by readers who are coming to campus — really esteemed writers. I think we have Annette Clapsaddle is judging the fall fiction contest this year. And this is a way for us to engage with the whole state.

Taylor Pardue ( 19:59 ):

I think these are great examples of … we always tell people we’re so appreciative of what the state of North Carolina does for us as a state university, but I think a lot of times when the public hears “state university,” they think that the state of North Carolina pays for everything. And while they give a[n] excellent foundation for us, funding these programs that go above and beyond — these different learning opportunities, these outreach programs — that comes a lot of times from philanthropy and from outside donors and just help us really make, like Chancellor Woodson says, a good university an extraordinary one.

Belle Boggs ( 20:34 ):

Oh, exactly. And the reading series is just such a great example of that. There are things that we can pay for with state funds, and there are things we cannot pay for with state funds. We can’t use state funds, necessarily, to host students and a visiting writer for dinner necessarily. But when we have these discretionary funds, we can do that. And the opportunity for a graduate student to go to dinner with an incredible writer that they have loved and read for years, it’s just something, right? To go to dinner with Ada Limón, our poet laureate who read here a few years ago; that’s an unforgettable, career-changing experience. But then for Ada Limón to come and read to [a] large group of listeners in Tally and have people from the community who’ve loved her work, have people from other parts of the university who’ve loved her work, have our own students from the English department and our graduate students. That’s bringing a lot of people together. That kind of opportunity is created by people like Tony Brown.

Taylor Pardue ( 21:57 ):

The student outreaches to the public schools — I really feel like that gets at the heart of being a land-grant university so much. So many times, I feel like when people hear “land grant,” they think of agriculture, probably first and foremost, or STEM fields, something along those lines. But really, like you said, going to visit these schools, maybe that’s the first time a student has ever met a writer or a writer in training, and to really be able to reach them is just as important as anything. To reach out and to really let the public see the benefit of NC State and the work that we do here.

Belle Boggs ( 22:30 ):

Oh, absolutely. And when we were working with Jessica Odom’s English, sheltered English IV class — so, this is a class at Jordan High School that’s taught in English to students where English is a second or sometimes a third language for them. And these students were so welcoming to us when we came into their space that, after we’d been there for a couple of weeks, we said, “We need to be reciprocal, and we should invite them to our space.” And so, we had not planned this at the beginning of our project there, but we worked with Transportation, we worked with the Libraries, we worked with Communications, and then the English and creative writing department to bring them to campus. They brought, rode a school bus to campus, and we met them at Tally, took them on a tour of the university. So, they got to see the university. Took them to Hill Library, where we had projected their poetry and their artwork on … it’s an exhibition room where you see the projection in 360 degrees.

And so, we had a display of their work set to music there, and they were not expecting that, and they were just blown away. Their teacher … people were crying. It was really powerful. And then we went after that, we had lunch outside, just like a student would, just like a college student right? They had Chick-fil-A, and then we walked, because this was a walking tour of campus. Oh, we also went to the Belltower, and they loved that. After we’d done our big tour and had lunch and seen the work at the library, we went to Clark Labs and the greenhouses there. We went into the greenhouses. It was a chilly day. We went inside. Of course, in a greenhouse, the air is warm and kind of humid. And we explored the greenhouses, looked at the plants, and they did a poetry prompt given by one of the graduate students, and they sat in the greenhouses and they wrote a poem.

And these are not students who, necessarily, at the beginning of the process with us, if you’d said, “OK, just sit down in this 10-minute window and write a poem.” We might’ve said, “What do I write about? I don’t know.” But they all had words and poems and expressions and ideas on the tips of their tongues, and they just went right to it in their notebooks. And many of them were the NC State notebooks that we’d brought to them at the beginning, the little red with a wolf logo on the front. It was a really special experience. And I think that is my dream: doing more things like that, where it’s not just we go into the community, but we also bring the whole community to our beautiful and really important campus. We’re really interesting. Things are happening all the time, and they get to see themselves on campus as a community member, but also maybe as a student, too. And they get to see what college students do, what graduate students do, what professors do, what scientists do, what engineers do. And I think that is really inspiring and what I would love, love, love to do more of with our program.

Taylor Pardue ( 25:55 ):

And there’s no telling how many of those students that we impact end up enrolling here and applying and coming to NC State and bringing it full circle.

Belle Boggs ( 26:03 ):

Exactly. I know we got some Wolfpack fans from that time.

Taylor Pardue ( 26:08 ):

You mentioned wants for the future and things like that. What’s the future look like for you? You have an interesting new role coming up, and then for the future of the program, too.

Belle Boggs ( 26:17 ):

Sure. So, I was director of the program for six years, and next year, this academic year, I’ll be on fellowship at the National Humanities Center, which is not far from here. So, I’ll still be able to come to campus for basketball games and readings as needed, but I will be spending most of my time working on a book called “Big Yellow Bus: The Essential American History of a Disappearing Public Good.” And it’s a book that tells the story of American education through the transportation system. So, it’s about school buses and school transportation and how they have played a role in access in consolidation of schools from our tiny one-room schoolhouses to our bigger schools now. But also the history of racism and segregation and resistance to a shared public good, a truly shared public good that is a mark on our history, but is one that people need to know, so they also understand why it’s so important.

And in the context of today, where we have school bus drivers working so hard to fight for better pay and reasonable hours and accommodations and things like that. And having to fight in general for resources for our public schools is hugely important. And so, that’s what I’m writing about next year. It is a nonfiction book that is immersive and will have its kind of critical creative side as well. And I’m sure I’ll write some short stories, as I always do. And yeah, I’m just really looking forward to it. My daughter and I, she’s 10 and is … one of the experiences that she had as … comes to campus with me on occasion. And she also went to those greenhouses and also got to meet scientists and cool people at NC State around the time that she was getting interested in houseplants. And so, she and I have cowritten a book called “Plant Pets,” which is about houseplants.

It’s the first book for kids about houseplants. It has a lot of great interviews with scientists and NC State-trained scientists and veterinarians, because, of course, you have to keep your pets safe when you’re choosing houseplants. And that’s coming out with Story Press on the 27th of August, so it comes out pretty soon. We actually have an event here with Friends of the Libraries in September. Those are things going on in my life. I’m really excited about the new students that we have. I’m sad that I’m not working with them this year, but I know that I’ll see them because I’ll take them to basketball games and I’ll see them at readings. I’ll see them today, and I’ll read their work, right, because that’s the other thing that I did not emphasize, but being a writer, it’s really, it’s this great career because you can do it all your life.

It’s not like being a gymnast, which is also awesome, but there’s a date of expiration there where you’re not going to be doing those flips anymore. But writing, you just hopefully just continue to get better at it as you go. And it is a long path to … it can be a long path to first-book publication, but it isn’t always a long path. And we have students who graduate here, like the talented Sarah Grunder Ruiz, who will publish right out of the gate, or like Tyree Daye, will publish books right out of the gate. And then we also have students who are publishing in important journals and winning important contests. And so, we’re reading their work while they’re here as graduate students, and we’re also working very hard to teach them the practice of both protecting your time, spending the time that you need to get the work where you need it to be, but also when you’re ready, putting the work out there and trying for that hard-to-reach fellowship or that dream publication. So, we try to work on the professional side of things, too, with our writers while they’re here.

Taylor Pardue ( 30:40 ):

Both of those books sound so interesting. I’m looking forward to those coming out.

Belle Boggs ( 30:43 ):

Oh, thank you.

Taylor Pardue ( 30:44 ):

Thank you so much for joining us today, and all the best in this new role, but looking forward to seeing you on campus again, too, for the basketball games and things like that. Glad you’re going to be able to still be in the community.

Belle Boggs ( 30:52 ):

Oh, definitely. For sure. Yeah. I’m very excited.

Taylor Pardue ( 31:01 ):

To learn more about the MFA in Creative Writing program, please visit go.ncsu.edu/mfa . To hear even more stories of Wolfpack success, please subscribe to the NC State Philanthropy Podcast today through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean or Stitcher. Be sure to leave a comment and rating as well to let us know how we’re doing. Thanks for listening, and as always, go Pack.

• College of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Program Support

More From Giving News

Podcast: Scholarships and Financial Aid With Krista Ringler 

Podcast: Wolfpack Philanthropy With Gayle Lanier 

Podcast: Goodnight Grad James B. Robertson 

Explore 30   results by leading Australian Universities

• Postgraduate remove postgraduate
• Creative writing remove creative writing
• Macquarie University remove macquarie university
• Masters Degree remove masters degree

Course results for Macquarie University Postgraduate Creative writing Degrees

0 Saved degrees (to compare save at least 2)

Master of Creative Writing

Postgraduate | MAQ-MCW-MAS

Elevate your writing to a professional level

Enrich your writing with academic perspectives. From print to digital, you’ll cover all the genres. Explore creative non-fiction and feature writing. Develop your manuscript. Edit. Revise. Give and receive feedback. Write with peers under expert guidance.

Need help choosing a course?

Find a time that suits you for a free 1:1 consultation with a student advisor.

Keep track of your favourites

Create a free account or sign in to:

• Save your favourite courses
• Access your saved courses on any device
• Compare your saved courses using our compare tool

Create an account

Already have an account?

• See all results

Master of Research (Arts)

CRICOS CODE: 087959C

Ask a question

If you’d like to know more about studying at Macquarie University, we’d love to hear from you.

Submit an enquiry

We’ll find the answer and email you back.

Call one of our course specialists

Monday to Friday: 9am - 5pm AEDT

View our campus

Check our calendar for up-to-date times.

Related courses

Master of research (business and economics).

Full time: 2 years

In person, on campus

Master of Research (Medicine, Health and Human Sciences)

Master of research (science and engineering), build a double degree.

Explore your options and complete two degrees in less time.