The Writer's Reader : A Guide to Writing Fiction and Poetry
Brenda Walker
(editor),
Sydney
:
Halstead Press
,
2002
Z961277
2002
anthology
criticism
(taught in 16 units)
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this unit students should be able to:
1. develop a piece of creative writing from its inception as idea, through the process of drafting to its completion;
2. write an original creative work suitable for submission to publishers and/or entry in literary competitions;
3. discern and discuss technical elements at work in selected creative texts.
UNIT CONTENT
1. Study selected short fiction, extracts from longer fiction, poetry and prose-poetry which demonstrate particular formal, structural, linguistic and technical concerns.
2. Write short fiction, poetry, prose-poetry and/or performance pieces which demonstrate skills gained through workshops conducted for this unit;
3. Peer-workshopping of students' creative writing with the aim of assisting in its consolidation and development.
Creative project 2 - 40%
Journal - 20%
Workshop participation - 10%
Dessaix, R. (1996). Night letters: a journey through Switzerland and Italy. Sydney, NSW: Macmillan.
Hrabal, B. (2001). Too loud a solitude. trans. by Michael Henry Heim. London, UK: Abacus.
Leonard, J. (Ed.) (1998). New music: an anthology of contemporary Australian poetry. NSW, Aust.: Five Islands Press.
Mailer, N. (2003). The spooky art: some thoughts on writing. London, UK: Little, Brown.
Meriwether, J. B. (Ed.) (2004). William Faulkner: essays, speeches and public letters. NY, USA: The Modern Library.
Moorhouse, F. (Ed.) (2004). Best Australian stories 2004. Melbourne, Vic.: Black Inc.
Winterson, J. (1996). Art objects: essays on ecstasy and effrontery. London, UK: Vintage.
Woolfe, S. and Grenville, K. (2001). Making stories: how ten Australian novels were written. St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin.
