Master of Creative Writing students participate in 24 masterclasses with some of the most accomplished tertiary-based creative writing teachers in the country. These two-hour workshop/seminars are held weekly during the semester, onsite at the Centre for Creative Writing. At the heart of the Master of Creative Writing is a primary creative work (or ‘thesis’). Students also develop an accompanying exegesis, a short piece of written and/or multimedia work that frames your creative project as research. The submitted work will consist of a (approximately) 40,000-60,000 creative work and a (approximately) 5,000 word exegesis. For genres like poetry or graphic novels the word limit requirements are reduced because of the compressed nature of the medium.

Four-year bachelor’s degree or Bachelor’s degree with honours or Bachelor’s degree and one year of advanced study; Proof of English proficiency; Special admission (bachelor’s degree and creative work equivalent to one year of advanced study); Exceptional admission (for established practitioners with a substantial body of creative work); Portfolio of creative writing (20 pages of original work for the page, screen or multimedia); May be required to submit evidence of ability to study at postgraduate level, and attend a selection interview