Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing)

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Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing)

Queensland University of Technology

Australia, Brisbane

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Queensland University of Technology

Australia , Brisbane

Key Facts

Program Level

Bachelor

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Course Code

116102H

Campuses

Kelvin Grove

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake Deadlines28-Feb-2026

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Duration 3 year(s)

Tuition Fee

AUD 39,800 / per year

Next Intake 28-Feb-2026

Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing)

About

Highlights

Develop practical skills working creatively on writing novels, poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction, memoir, and genre fiction.
Learn from highly experienced and published authors, scholars, and experts in creative writing.
Gain opportunities for exposure with internships at writers' festivals, literary events, publishing houses, and public readings.
Unique course structure allows you to engage in major transdisciplinary projects with creatives from other fields to develop transferable skills across a range of industries.
Flexibility to design your creative writing degree to suit you with a choice of a second major or combination of other creative field majors, minors and course units across multiple subjects or consider one of our double degrees.

Writing is more central to our culture than ever before. The communication revolution demands written content - on the page, on the screen, and in new and evolving forms and spaces. Writers, storytellers and experts with nuanced and creative language are needed to provoke, entertain and connect to audiences in expanding ways. QUT offers the largest and most comprehensive undergraduate writing course in Queensland with the broadest range of units on offer.

This course will give you insight into the national contexts into which your writing will enter as well as the debates and ideas that are enlivening and challenging the ways in which writers create.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Minimum English language requirements

We accept English language proficiency scores from the following tests undertaken in a secure test centre. Tests must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement.

English Test	Overall	Listening	Reading	Writing	Speaking
IELTS Academic / One Skill Retake	6.5	6	6	6	6
Cambridge English Score You must share your results with QUT through the Candidate Results Online website.	176	169	169	169	169
PTE Academic	58	50	50	50	50
TOEFL iBT	79	16	16	21	18

Don't have the English language score you need? We can help!

We offer English language programs to improve your English and help you gain entry to this course.

When you apply for this course, we will recommend which English course you should enrol in.

Career

Careers and outcomes

With advanced writing and communication capabilities as well as analytic and editorial experience, the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) degree will open many career doors. These rare, real-world skills that are keenly sought by employers to work as fiction writers, editors, embedded creatives in technical and corporate contexts, technical writers, script writers, reviewers, travel writers, feature writers, journalists, publishers, media workers, policy workers, government employees and teachers.

Graduates with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) degree find success working in the publishing and screen industries, advertising and public relations agencies, magazines, newspapers, digital content providers, government and large corporations all require specialist writers with a flair for language.

If teaching is your ambition, this course can be also followed with a graduate-entry teacher education Master of Teaching course, which enables you to become a qualified teacher. Check the entry requirements for specific teaching courses.

Pathways also exist to prepare you for further study including research.