Writing and Publishing

RMIT Writing and Publishing participants for DISRUPT

Writing and Publishing at RMIT embeds industry in all its programs, with innovative on the job learning for students. The discipline is dedicated to the application and theory of writing, editing and publishing. Engagement with a range of cultural partners also provides a rich program of public projects and events.

Located in the heart of literary Melbourne, Writing and Publishing works with industry partners to offer fellowships and work integrated learning opportunities for creative writing, publishing and editing students. RMIT students move from in house publications and events to external festivals and job opportunities. RMIT offers degrees in Professional Writing and Editing, Creative Writing and Writing and Publishing, while Bowen Street Press (BSP) is an independent, student-led publishing house working out of RMIT’s city campus. BSP studios also partner with a number of resident industry partners including Rabbit Poetry Journal and The Garret Podcast.

During the Emerging Writers' Festival a cross-disciplinary team of RMIT students, writers, editors and designers collaborated to produce a dynamic daily newspaper, The Gazette. A 2019 partnered project between Melbourne Writers Festival and the Intercultural Collaborations studio as part of the Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing), featured RMIT students performing alongside emerging literary voices from Singapore.

Dr Vicki Couzens, VC Indigenous Research Fellow at RMIT sharing her language inheritance story at public event series Present Tense. Dr Vicki Couzens, VC Indigenous Research Fellow at RMIT sharing her language inheritance story at public event series Present Tense.
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Partnered projects with industry

Close industry partnerships showcase co-curated public events and offer dynamic work integrated learning opportunities for students.

Engagement program

Alongside teaching and research, the Writing and Publishing discipline offers a rich engagement program.

Applied Creative Writing

Asia Pacific Engagement

Bowen Street Press

Mccraith House and Urban Writing House

Industry Engagement

Writing and publishing news

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.