Fast-track your degree using prior learning
18 months | 7 units
Course overview
We have crafted an inspiring and intuitive Master of Creative Writing to nurture our writers and fuel their creativity.
Through immersive learning experiences, our graduates undergo significant professional development to emerge as confident and well-rounded writers, ready to make their mark in a range of creative pursuits.
Why study a Master of Creative Writing with ECU Online?
Taught by top industry experts
Contemporary skill development
Publication-ready work
What you will study
The Master of Creative Writing consists of 10 units.
Students completing the 10-unit master’s will complete all below units, whereas students eligible to fast-track their master’s degree will complete only seven units (see entry criteria).
For more information and learning outcomes of each unit, download your course guide below.
- Writing Fiction
This unit introduces the fundamentals of writing fiction through reading a range of short stories. - Writing Realities
This unit explores writing based on actual events, including history, biography, true crime and stories of place and family. - Writing for Performance
This unit introduces skills for writing drama or monologue for performance. - Writing and Audience
This unit cultivates a writer's understanding of their work with consideration of genre and readership, including online audiences. - Editing and Publishing
This unit explores the business of writing, editing, and publishing, including processes and workflow for professional editing, seeking publication, and presenting the professional author platform.
- Writing for the Planet’s Future
This unit takes an ecocritical approach to writing about place and environment in the production of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. - Writing and Empathy
This unit explores the core practice of writing and embodiment - including writing about love and characters outside our own viewpoint. - Writing Fiction that Scares and Unsettles
This unit explores the darker aspects of fiction including genres such as horror and gothic, as well as thematic concerns like violence, trauma and conflict.
- Writing Project Research and Development
In this unit students initiate, plan, and develop a writing project which is of a significant scope. - Writing Project Resolve and Reflect
In this unit students continue and complete the project initiated in the first Writing Project unit and create a podcast to get a feel for presenting their work to a future audience.
Course information
Admission requirements
To gain entry to the online Master of Creative Writing, applicants must have:
- A bachelor’s degree in any discipline; or
- Equivalent prior learning, including at least five years of relevant professional experience; or
- Students must submit a full-length publication (book), or a portfolio of creative works published in literary journals, online or in print. For example, short stories or essays or poems which constitute the equivalent of a full-length publication, or minimum 40,000 words of prose/100 pages of poetry. This excludes all self-published works.
Pathway to further study
Remain flexible while you pursue your postgraduate degree with our gateway qualifications. If you need to exit early, you could still receive a Graduate Certificate of Creative Writing after completing your first three units.
Graduate Certificate
3 units
or continue studying
Graduate Diploma
+3 units
(6 units total)
Master's Degree
+ 4 units
(10 units total)
Or
Master's (Fast-Track)
+ 1 unit
(7 units total)
Still have questions?
Download a course guide or speak with a Student Enrolment Advisor. Our team can assist you with:
- Eligibility & enrolment enquiries
- Course duration & fees
- Flexible entry & study pathways
- How online study will fit with your schedule
