Description
You've been carrying a manuscript - poetry, novel, script - in your head. This course gives you the opportunity to finally see it finished!
Overview
This is a one-year full time diploma, equivalent to the third year of the degree. If you have experience as a writer, and have completed a significant amount of work towards a major manuscript, this course gives you the opportunity to complete the manuscript to a standard appropriate for submission to a publisher or equivalent. Your manuscript may be fiction, a collection of poetry, stageplay or filmscript. Some non-fiction works are accepted on this course. You participate in regular workshops and also work with a mentor.
What this course covers
- The development of craft and technique within your selected genre
- Strengthening the idea
- Imaginative risk
- The writing process
- Research
- Reading and critique within your selected genre
- Rewriting and editing
- The publishing process
Hours, extra costs, facilities
Poetry option: workshops are held on Wednesday 9.30-12.30 and Thursday 10.00-3.00 at the Porirua Campus.
Script option: workshops are held on Tuesdays 10.00-3.00 at the Wellington Campus.
Novel and Fiction option: Weekend workshops (Saturday and Sunday 9.30-4.00) are held once a month at the Wellington Campus, and students email the tutor each week.
Academic staff
All tutors are experienced practising writers. In addition to the core tutors, you will meet with a number of other practising writers, as guest speakers and mentors.