School of Creative Communication

This flash animation was Media student Matt Hurst's 2005 Honours project.

FIRST is an anthology of creative writing produced by students at the University of Canberra.

Students have the opportunity to submit creative work for consideration for publication to this anthology each year. Interested students also have the opportunity to work on the small editorial committee alongside teaching staff, experienced in editing and publishing, who act as guides and mentors. In this environment students have the chance of producing a professional anthology of quality work, increasing their skills base and knowledge about the publishing industry.

The University of Canberra has established an agreement with the internationally renowned School of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Celebrated graduates of East Anglia’s Master of Arts in Creative Writing include Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro and novelist Tracey Chevalier. Teachers in the program have included Angela Carter, Rose Tremain and Andrew Motion, current Poet Laureate of Great Britain.

This commercial was made as part of television production 2 in the media production degree.

Immediately after completing my professional writing degree, I took up a position editing government recruitment advertising. Though this paid very well it was slowly but surely turning my brain to mush. I gave it up and went to work at BMA magazine (the local street press) as their Advertising and Marketing Manager. In my time there I was able to introduce a film section and became the film editor. All the while I slowly engineered my working week to involve more writing time.

'The degree is a great starting place' by Jordi Kerr

My current goal is to obtain ongoing employment in the field of scriptwriting.

I completed the Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing at the University of Canberra.

Ingrid Jonach is about to publish her first book The Frank Frankie (Pan Macmillan, July 2007).
You are invited to the launch

Its sequel The Frank Frankie 2 (Pan Macmillan) will be published in July 2008.

'The Yum Cha of writing' by Ingrid Jonach

How has your degree helped you get to where you are now?

Jordi Kerr (graduated 2005) is currently pitching her three X 1 hour tv mini series "Red Sand" at the Conspiracy II Sci-Fi Fiction Convention in Wellington New Zealand .

Jordi won the opportunity to pitch by sending a 25 word pitch to a pre-convention competition and "Red Sand" was one of six hopefuls chosen from Australia and New Zealand.

"Red Sand" is sci-fi drama shot through with comedy, pathos and action.

Sarah Hart

Sarah Hart is one of our creative writing graduates. Hear what she has to say about her degree, how she can 'meet a mean deadline'.

'Writing my way out of a tight situation' by Sarah Hart

Ben Stubbs
Ben Stubbs is a travel writer and scriptwriter and is a tutor in creative writing at the School of Creative Communication.

Read some of his stories ....
'The road to ruins'

'One more bite than he can chew'