
Diploma in Creative Writing (Level 6)
Whangārei, New Zealand
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
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EARLIEST START DATE
Mar 2025
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
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Introduction
Explore a genre of choice, compose original text, examine and identify the business skills necessary for a self-employed writer.Unleash your potential! The diploma will consolidate your understanding of genres and guide you to write for different audiences as you work on novels, scripts, collections, or non-fiction texts.
You will also learn about writing for online outlets, how to hone your editing skills and how to self-publish.This diploma has a team of specialist tutors who cover a range of genres.
The team includes: children's writer Justine Baddeley; poet Dr Briar Wood (whose collectionRāwāhiwas shortlisted for the 2018 Ockham NZ Book Awards); award-winning scriptwriter Lisette d Jeong; IML graduate and short story writer Gerard O'Brien; prose writer, artist and poet Ruby Porter (2017 winner of the Wallace Foundation Short Fiction Award, and inaugural winner of the 2018 Michael Gifkins Prize); andleading freelance editor Lesley Marshall.