Cirrus@Austlit

Outcomes: Students are able to write compelling and well-developed poetry or fiction; work constructively together to respond to one another's poetry or fiction in a workshop situation; understand some aspects of the deployment of personal experience and imaginative artifice in the creation of poetry and fiction; understand and, if appropriate, work with the literary techniques which are exemplified and explained in the unit reader and textbook; and understand certain aspects of the process of publishing in Australia at present.

Content: This unit of study in the writer's craft stimulates and guides students' creative writing, while emphasising the disciplined, professional nature of literary work and alerting students to contemporary literary forms and language.

Students attend workshops in the genre of their choicepoetry or fiction. Lectures and workshops consider a mixture of received literature and students' own works and deal with institutional issues such as copyright and equity as they affect writers.