Master of Arts in Literature and Creative Writing

The Writing and Research Centre at Western Sydney University offers a challenging, rigorous programwork and project-based Master’s degree, combining criticism and creative work and leading to a Master of Arts in Literature and Creative Writing. The centre is unique in Australia in the way it combines scholarship, authorship and expertise in publishing. The Centre includes some of Australia’s most celebrated writers (such as the novelists Felicity Castagna, George Haddad, Luke Carman, Mette Jakobsen and Alexis Wright) and widely published literary scholars and critics with international reputations (such as Anthony Uhlmann, Ben Etherington, Lorraine Sim and James Gourley). Western Sydney University is ranked above world standard in both the study of literature and creative arts practice. The Centre houses the highly decorated literary press Giramondo Publishing, and the pre-eminent literary review site in Australia, The Sydney Review of Books. With outstanding resources, the University is able to offer multifaceted understanding of literature and writing. The Centre is a world leader in the field of practice-led research and research-led practice, and this carries with it our philosophy of deepening the understanding of both critical and creative practice by linking critical and creative thinking. In short, the Centre is one of the best places in Australia to either become a writer or to think in a critical and scholarly way about writing.