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Unlock your imagination

Unlock your imagination, expand your creative thinking and polish your writing.

Inspiration, communication and vocation are at the heart of Massey’s exciting BA (Creative Writing). It offers you the chance to develop your writing so that it’s pitch-perfect for a variety of audiences. You’ll enhance your critical thinking and master a wide range of transferrable communication skills while pursuing your own creative vision.

Choose your canvas

Creative writing offers you flexibility in writing original work in a variety of genres. Learn to write fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, travel writing, and scripts for the stage and screen.

Learn from published authors

Our award-winning teachers are internationally acclaimed writers in their own right. They teach from their own first-hand experience in moving from idea to page, polishing their work and sending it off to be published or performed.

Get real

Your third year has a vocational focus. You’ll develop your writing in a genre of your choice and learn how to submit it for publishing. You’ll also have the opportunity to gain hands-on editing and publishing experience, or facilitate a creative writing arts project in your local community.

Get published

Students who have taken our creative writing courses have gone on to publish poems, stories, essays and books as well as winning some of New Zealand’s top writing prizes.

Careers

A Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) is one of the most creative and enriching degrees you can do. Employers seek out BA students for their lateral and analytical thinking, communication skills and creative ability.

There are various possibilities for creative writing graduates, including:

• Writing for television, magazines, blogs or the book-publishing industry
• Corporate or non-profit freelance writing
• Creative arts project coordination
• Inter-arts collaboration for arts festivals
• Writing for public relations
• Creative writing in advertising
• Teaching
• Performance-related writing and production
• Writing and advising on Government policy
• Writing for social media

Major Requirements

The Creative Writing major in the Bachelor of Arts consists of 135 credits.