The craft of writing develops from a desire to connect with a readership, and that's what this major will help you to achieve. You will work with world-renowned creative practitioners to hone your technique and develop the skills you need to build a portfolio career in the changing publishing landscape. You will master a range of commercial and literary genres including poetry, screen-writing and fiction while building your networks and knowledge of the industry. This major will train you to research effectively and edit judiciously to create compelling, marketable stories that connect with global audiences.

Our students have opportunities to volunteer or gain experience with a range of projects, including AustLit, a resource for Australian literary, print, and narrative cultures, and Corella Press, a UQ run not-for-profit small press committed to making beautiful, collectable editions of recovered nineteenth-century Australian Gothic, mystery, and crime stories. Graduates of the Writing major have found work as professional journalists, teachers, editors, ghost-writers, publishers, science communicators, copywriters, playwrights, corporate communicators, public relations managers, travel writers, arts reviewers, bloggers, columnists, critics, feature writers, fiction writers, poets, publishing coordinators, screen writers, speech writers, and digital content developers. You will also become part of a network of UQ writing alumni that includes prize-winning writers such as Shastra Deo, Nick Earls, Melissa Ashley, and Jack Dann.