Discipline of English and Creative Writing
School of Humanities
Napier Building Level 7
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 Australia

Phone: +61 8 8313 5130
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Postgraduate Programs
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Faculty Office
Napier Building Undercroft (Ground)
North Terrace Campus
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 Australia

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Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri 9am-5pm
Thurs 11am-5pm

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University Contact Centre
Phone: +61 8 8313 5208
(Country and interstate callers toll free on 1800 061 459)
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Welcome to Creative Writing

The Creative Writing Programs at the University of Adelaide attract students from interstate and overseas who are talented emerging writers, or developing and established writers who wish to write their next work with a mentor or who wish to gain professional qualifications.

These Creative Writing Programs are some of the most dynamic and flexible in the country, enabling students to work alongside writers such Brian Castro, Nick Jose, Jill Jones and Eva Hornung. Visitors to the Programs have included David Malouf, Hazel Rowley, Marina Warner and Murray Bail. In the last three years the Program has produced such prominent writers as: Miguel Syjuco, who won the MAN Asian Prize for his PhD novel Ilustrado, Carol Lefevre (Nights in the Asylum, If You Were Mine), Rachel Hennessy (The Quakers) and Sean Williams (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, #1 New York Times hardcover bestseller list).

The Creative Writing Programs develop skills for more proficient and versatile writers through student-directed learning. As Higher Degree Research candidates, Master of Philosophy and PhD students in Creative Writing will develop their skills as researchers.

As well, the Programs provide opportunities:

for students to experience professional publishing and performance of creative writing through working on publications, through the organisation of reading events, and by attending seminars on professional matters such as editing and copyright
for PhD students to develop teaching/research careers in creative writing by tutoring and presenting seminars.

Master Classes

In July 2011, The J M Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice presented a 4-day series of '4 x 4' Master Classes for Creative Writers. Participants had the rare opportunity to work with four outstanding and award winning writers from the United States and Australia.

Maria Espinosa (USA) - novelist, poet and translator
Maria Tumarkin (Former USSR & AUS) - non-fiction writer, memoirist and essayist.
Peter Goldsworthy (AUS) - novelist, poet, short story writer and librettist
Sean Williams (AUS & USA) - speculative fiction writer and short story writer

For more information of these visiting writers, please click here. CAL Cultural Fund logo

The JMCCP Master Classes are funded by the CAL Cultural Fund

Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership

The University of Adelaide, through the Creative Writing Program, is the host institution for the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership (APWP), which is an international collaboration of universities, literary organizations and individual writers, scholars, and others interested in researching, supporting or otherwise promoting new writing from or about Asia and the Pacific. The Partnership supports diversity of cultural expression and literature that crosses borders. It champions the notion that literature enhances understanding between cultures.

Showcase

Our Showcase page details a selection of publishing, presentations, prizes and awards by the Creative Writing Program's students, alumni and staff.

News and Events

Our News and Events page details recent and forthcoming events associated with the Creative Writing Program as well as the achievements of students, alumni and staff.