Course overview
This third-year course aims to familiarise students with a wide variety of approaches to the practice of creative nonfiction, with particular focus on writing about a range of art forms and writing-as-art. Students will be introduced to various formal approaches to writing creative nonfiction, which may include the essay, cultural reportage, art-critical writing, memoir, lyric essay, and writing for fine art/installation. The course works to develop students’ skills and command of nonfiction forms, as well as their confidence in giving and receiving peer feedback in a creative workshop setting.
- The Essay
- Art Writing
- Writing (as) Art
- Bodies, Minds, Affects
Course learning outcomes
- Analyse creative, critical, and theoretical texts related to various creative nonfiction forms and genres, informed by the global and historical contexts of their production, publication, or dissemination, and presented in scholarly prose.
- Write and revise original creative texts that demonstrate significant levels of clarity, insight, narrative innovation, and sophistication, and which incorporate processes of research, drafting, and revision.
- Reflect critically on their own creative practice, including being able to articulate their intentions, creative decisions, influences, and understanding of how they have grappled with creative or conceptual challenges in their writing.
- Offer sensitive, insightful, and constructive feedback on peer writers' work.
Degree list
The following degrees include this course