Writing Into Practice

The heart of the writer’s life is practice; community is its oxygen. This subject supports Honours students to write and rewrite towards creative projects by introducing practice-based research strategies and community connections that can help sustain a creative practice for life. A team of writing staff will expose students to a rich variety of writing modalities, expertise, lived experiences, and novel frames of reference. They will challenge students to be riskier, think wilder and lean into others’ responses. Students will be asked to listen deeply to their own work, en route to finding their place as a practitioner. Writing Into Practice operates as a series of intensive practicums and seminars, interspersed with non-teaching weeks as interludes for putting learning into practice. Students are encouraged to write together and share work-in-progress, to develop both a tolerance for solitude and strategies for participation in writerly collectives.