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Creative Writing for Publication

Level 7
NUI Certificate
Courses

Introduction The course develops edit and critiquing skills,

This course will give participants a practical
grounding in the writing of fiction and creative
non-fiction for publication. The course allows
students to work with professional writers who
will act in a mentoring capacity. The practical
emphasis will help students to progress
towards producing work of publishable
standard and marketing it.
Course Aims
•• To develop creative writing skills.
•• To cultivate a disciplined approach to
writing.
•• To develop students’ skills in critically
assessing their own and others’ work.
•• To provide an understanding of the
economics and structure of the publishing
industry.
which inform writing. Beginners will be helped
with guidelines on how to do this and
encouragement will be stressed. Students
support one another’s writing.
Assessment Procedures
A piece of creative work will be required for
each writing module (short story, novel
excerpt, non-fiction)
Publishing Industry Awareness: students will
prepare a publisher submission for a body of
work in one of the above genres.
Course Duration
100 hours part-time over one year. This
course will be offered over 10 weekends
(Saturday & Sunday) from September to May.

Content Fee €1,100

Module 1: Writing: Creative Non-fiction
Module 2: Publishing Industry Awareness How to apply
Module 3: Writing: Short Story Please return the application form (at the back
Module 4: Writing: the Novel of this prospectus) and €100 deposit to
Kilkenny Campus (NUI Maynooth),
Admission College Road, Kilkenny by the appropriate
Applicants must be 23 or over, and have the closing date.
capacity to complete a course at this level.
Participants are asked to submit a short piece
of no more than 100 words on why they want
to do this course.

In order to facilitate the better organisation of

workshop time, please indicate also on your
application whether you are (a) a beginner in
terms of creative writing; whether you have (b)
previously attended creative writing workshops
and (c) whether you have had work published.