Short Story Writing
Certificate WRI05A
Writing, Editing & Publishing

This course has been developed against the curriculum for arts (professional writing and editing), and includes practical activities and industry relevant projects.

Do you want to explore the senses, move people to tears, make them laugh or just plain entertain? If so, this could be the course for you.

Writing is one of the greatest of all inventions. Through writing our thoughts can last forever. Writing provides us with a way of recording what and who we are, and what and who we have been. It gives and confirms our past, present and our future. Writing presents us with the possibility to make sense of ourselves, and to know and make sense of others.

The wonderful Short Story Writing Course will fill your mind with possibilities. You will learn all about your role as a short story writer, how to comunicate to a reading audience, how to network and present stories to the market. And you will learn about pace, rhythm, tone, transitions, point of view, dialogue, characterisation, use of narrative, setting, story structure and more ...

“Master the form of the short story, and you can write anything.”
Jennifer Dabbs, (Interview - 24 May 1996)

Career opportunities include: Short Story Writer, Professional Writer, Freelance Writer.

Industries include: Independent career as freelance short story writer; or any industry that requires short pieces of writing to be undertaken such as publishing, media, education, government and corporate.