Short Story Writing
Certificate WRI05A
Writing, Editing & Publishing
Learning Method: Correspondence with online support

This wonderful professional Short Story Writing Course provides a comprehensive learning experience. It is packed with practical real-life activities and you will have real writing projects to undertake. In addition, you can access the online activities in the eLearning Centre to further practise and test your knowledge and skills. And you can talk with other students from all over the country in the Student Forum.

Materials: Your course includes College folder and student case, unless you are undertaking your course online, all modules (tutorials and assignment projects), textbooks, learning tools, tutor feedback and marking, College support, progressive Transcripts of Study, Graduate Awards and final Academic Transcripts, access to the eCampus, eNews, Student ID Pass, and access to educational discounts.

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)