TOP 10 CREATIVE WRITING COURSES IN NEW ZEALAND

Creative Writers is a course for those students who love writing. It is a course for creating stories, and understanding how we tell them through a range of forms, including short stories, speeches and scripts.

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.

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.

This course will cover the tools writers use to write fiction, in either long or short form. We will begin by developing a character to be central to a piece of fiction. From there we will go on to workshop story, tone and setting.

Get your creativity flowing by exploring some of the star forms of creative writing, focusing each week on a different area of fiction or creative non-fiction.

This course provides a thorough grounding in the skills, techniques and tricks a writer needs to transform ideas and material into art. Guided exercises will develop students' perception, observation and research skills.

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.

Come join us  for a fun two-day summer course where we’ll be exploring creative writing and creative play in a fun, supportive environment! Aimed at 8-11 year olds, this course will explore writing in response to prompts, generating stories and character and following your creativity!

Poet and best selling author Dominic Hoey is running a one day creative writing workshop at The AMP building. Entitled ‘Learn To Write Good’, the workshops covers the fundamentals of creative writing and is open to everyone from poets to song writers  to novelists.

Are you interested in poetry? This course will take you through varied forms of writing poetry and introduce you to the Aotearoa/New Zealand poetry community. By the end of the course, you'll have explored different ways of seeing, created a portfolio of your own work