Professional Writing and Editing

Courses

Our School offers both Certificate IV Professional Writing and Editing (21674VIC) and the Diploma of Professional Writing & Editing (21675VIC).
Mandatory subjects include Editing, Computer Skills and Industry Overview.
Electives include:

• Fiction writing
• Non-fiction writing
• Poetry
• Screenwriting
• Myths and symbols
• Corporate writing
• Writing for radio
• Photography for writers
• Desktop publishing
• Writing for children and young adults.

Projects

We are continuing to focus on project work, to enable our students to get experience in presenting their writing to the world. For example, we produce recordings for VU Radio; write plays for Sunshine Community Theatre’s season of Virgin Flights; produce a yearly anthology of student work; write, edit and produce a professional magazine Lizard; and perform poetry, comedy and fiction readings at our annual Students’ Night.

Our subjects are delivered in face-to-face classroom sessions, in which students learn principles of writing and then apply them to their own writing practice, whether this is in their playscripts, news reports and feature articles, novel chapters or poems. Students also learn about the publishing industry and skills required in a whole range of writing workplaces.

Online study

From 2008, some subjects will be offered for on-line study. Stay in touch with Subjects on our web site for more information over coming months.