Creative Writing

Our foundation workshop is a transformative experience for anyone who writes at work. In 1 day, you’ll learn a set of practical, plain-language techniques to craft compelling, reader-friendly, and persuasive documents — from short emails to strategic reports, and everything in between.

Two groups of ten students form close supportive units, each working with a tutor. Writers work with prose and poetry. They critique each other’s work. They are exposed to other writers and the writing world, listen to guest speakers and are introduced to a range of good writing by their tutor.

The Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy Course gives you all the writing techniques required to write credible, compelling speculative fiction. Practise your skills in 12 writing assignments, with feedback on each from award-winning author, Sonny Whitelaw.

Improve your reading, writing and spelling for employment or further study with this free daytime or evening course. Please note that you must be a fluent speaker of English to attend this course. Enrolments may be accepted after the start date, if places are still available.

Whether you want to write the great Kiwi novel or write children tales, there are some fundamental building blocks that all aspiring writers need to know. Come along to learn the fundamentals of plotting, writing great characters and some of the essential nuts and bolts of creative writing.