Take your creative talent seriously. If you want to live creatively and turn your talent for writing into a career, the Diploma in Writing for Creative Industries is a great way to start. You will exit after one year with the Diploma in Writing for Creative Industries and a range of writing skills that will be transferable to many fields of employment. You will also have spent some time in a work-placement position, so you will have hands on experience of what it is like to be a working writer.

Diploma in Writing for Creative Industries 2012
Programme structure:

• Level 5
• One year, full time
• Nelson campus

Content:

• Writing for new media
• Blogging
• Games writing
• Commercial writing
• Journalism skills
• Publicity and PR writing
• Graphic design
• Marketing the arts
• Academic writing skills
• Poetry
• Fiction writing
• Scriptwriting

After completing the Diploma in Writing for Creative Industries, you’ll have the technical skills to produce arts/media works in your studio area of choice, manage or run an independent writing practice, work in an art/media related business or continue with further study.