Creative Writing
Creative Writing is a medium used to communicate, resist, provoke and seek or find understanding. Our research investigates the artistic, historical, cultural and societal impacts of the written word.
Creative Writing at Melbourne
Academic staff in the Creative Writing program are widely published writers, industry professionals, and leading researchers in areas including:
- Fiction, non-fiction and poetry, creative nonfiction
- Contemporary Australian writing and Aboriginal literature
- Writing for screen, theatre, live art, videogames and performance
- Graphic narratives and experimental poetics
- The theory and teaching of creative writing, creativity and composition
Our graduate students and researchers position Creative Writing as political, cultural, and critical discourse. We value working and writing together: generating connection, collaboration, and collegiality.
Our academic staff publish on dynamic and diverse topics including living poetry, video games, storytelling and genre-shifting work.
Featured writing
Our academic staff publish on dynamic and diverse topics including living poetry, video games, storytelling and genre-shifting work.
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Death at the Dog Park
Death at the Dog Park (Glom Press, 2021) – Dr Radha O’Meara, Senior Lecturer and Eloise Grills
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Axiomatic
Axiomatic (Brow Books, 2018) – Dr Maria Tumarkin, Senior Lecturer
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Drawing Sybylla
Drawing Sybylla: The Real and Imagined Lives of Australian (UWA Press, 2017) – Dr Odette Kelada
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Raging Grace
Raging Grace: Australian Writers Speak Out on Disability (Puncher & Wattmann, 2024) - edited by Andy Jackson, Kerri Shying and Esther Ottaway.
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The Djinn Hunters
The Djinn Hunters (Hunter Publishers, 2024) - Nadia Niaz
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Metal Fish, Falling Snow
Metal Fish, Falling Snow (Text Publishing, 2020) - Cath Moore
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But the Girl
But the Girl (Hamish Hamilton, 2023) - Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
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City Knife
City Knife (MidnightSun, 2023) - Rachel Hennessy
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Abandon Every Hope
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead (Upswell, 2023) Hayley Singer
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Going Postal
Going Postal: More than “Yes” Or “No” (Brow Books, 2018) - Quinn Eades and Son Vivienne
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The Thinking Woman
The Thinking Woman (UNSW Press, 2019) - Julienne van Loon
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Floundering
Floundering (Text Publishing, 2012) - Romy Ash
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Late Bloomer
Late Bloomer: How and Austism Diagnosis Changed my Life (Hardie Grant, 2021) - Clem Bastow
Featured research
Our research engages with a wide audience through industry and community partnerships, and is supported by a range of funding sources, including the Australian Research Council (ARC).
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Australasian Association of Writing Programs’ 30th Annual Conference
Call for Abstracts
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Contemporary Australian Comics 1980-2020: A New History
An ARC Linkage project mapping the contemporary history and cultural impact of comics as a narrative art form in Australia.
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Accessible City
A disability-led videogame project that imagines new models of inclusive city design.
Study with us
Develop your expertise in Creative Writing through our undergraduate, higher degree and other programs.
Learn more about applying for high degree programs, including Graduate research and Graduate coursework, in which students participate in writing, publication, thesis and seminar programs designed to foster creative and critical debate.
Undergraduate
Graduate coursework
- Graduate Certificate in Arts
- Graduate Diploma in Arts
- Graduate Certificate in Arts (Advanced)
- Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced)
- Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing
Graduate research
Meet our Creative Writing staff
Academic staff in the Creative Writing program are leading teachers, researchers and industry professionals, with expertise across fiction, creative non-fiction, screenwriting, graphic novels, critical scholarly work and beyond.