Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT University is a comprehensive trade school for writers and editors. PWE is dynamic, inspiring and industry-connected.
Our Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing (PWE) is recognised as one of the premier writing programs in Australia and provides excellent training for a wide range of editing and publishing roles. Our writing teachers are published authors who know their craft intimately and have a passion for nurturing newer writers. Editing teachers have strong industry credentials too; they teach
22/02/2025
Just stumbled across this and loved it so thought you might too. PWE legend Yannick Thoraval
Anti-ode to the nineties - Overland literary journal To ‘us’, the white, suburban, middle-class, western youth of that era – the mascots of Generation X – the nineties felt like a letdown, a second-rate Elvis impersonation of the 1960s, a commercial pastiche of its iconoclasm.
22/02/2025
Hey, this is what we like to see! PWE legend Rachel Matthews - Author !!
22/02/2025
sister program RMIT Professional Screenwriting legend Kath Dolheguy!!
🎭 The Arts is a tough gig for everyone. How does class control who has access? Talented Melbourne writer, screen producer, playwright and RMIT Professional Writing and Editing lecturer Kath Dolheguy celebrates the triumph of creatives from working class backgrounds, in these insightful, honest and entertaining conversations. Don't miss Melbourne writers Trish Bolton and Danielle Binks❤️
See on IG for all app links. 🔗
Readings Jacinta di Mase Management
13/02/2025
PWE is big fans of Kill Your Darlings (KYD). It's a great online journal based in Melbourne where heaps of graduates have worked. KYD has just announced their inaugural Flash Fiction Prize.
They welcome submissions of previously unpublished stories, between 750–1000 words. Submissions are open now, and close midnight Sunday 23 March 2025. Judged by KYD editor Suzy Garcia and publishing director and CEO Rebecca Starford, the winner will receive $1000, and three runners-up will receive $500. All winning pieces will be published online at Kill Your Darlings.
https://killyourdarlings.submittable.com/submit/320666/kyd-flash-fiction-prize-2025
Please note: You must be a KYD current member to submit your work to this prize. If you are not in a financial position to become a member, do still check out their website and consider joining their free newsletter.
Kill Your Darlings - KYD Flash Fiction Prize 2025 We’re excited to launch a new Flash Fiction Prize! We welcome submissions of previously unpublished stories, between 750–1000 words. Submissions close midnight Sunday 23 March 2025. Judged by KYD editor Suzy Garcia and KYD publishing director Rebecca Starford, the winner of the prize will receiv...
09/02/2025
Wonderful PWE teacher Anna Snoekstra has a new novel coming out in May. It's called 'The ones we love' and is available for pre-order! Anna's 3 previous novels have been published in over twenty countries and sixteen languages and we can't wait to read this one.
The Ones We Love Something is going on behind closed doors... Meet the Jansen family:Since the weekend of the party – the one twenty-two year old Liv can’t remember, the one that left her covered in bruises – she’s been locked out of her bedroom by a padlock. Her parents are behaving oddly and her best frien...
28/01/2025
PWE legend Rachel Matthews - Author!
is coming to Canberra thanks to Marion Writers!
Harry Hartog Bookseller in Canberra are all about connection, creativity, and a shared love of stories—whatever form they take.
Come along to their The Australian National University location for a 90-minute workshop where we’ll strip away the pressure, toss out the rules, and have some fun with storytelling.
🎉 Whether you’re a seasoned writer or just a curious reader looking to give it a go, this is your space to start something new and see where it takes you.
🌟 Limited spots available - grab your ticket 👉 https://events.humanitix.com/readers-are-writers-workshop
Let’s write, laugh, and create together.
No experience needed, just bring yourself and an open mind. Can’t wait to see you there! ❤️
Transit Lounge Publishing RMIT Professional Writing and Editing
26/01/2025
a few pwe legends here!
💥Excited to join this brilliant line-up of authors at Ginsights 2025, in partnership with the Canberra Writers Festival,Paperchain Bookstore and Marion Writers!
I’ll be kicking things off on February 6th, with a fun conversation with the wonderful Susan Helyar, about lifelong challenges in a techno world of love and loss, isolation and the super-power of humour. There’s even an optional writing task for those ready to swap their complimentary Mandarin gin for a pen!
Hosted at the Big River Distilling Co., I hope to see you there ❤️
To attend: https://bigriverdistilling.com.au/products/ginsights-author-event
2025 guest authors are: Maura Pierlot - Author & Playwright Ashley Kalagian Blunt Natasha Lester - Author Andra Putnis - Writer Lucy Treloar Author Kaaron Warren Colly Campbell - Writer
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20/01/2025
Micros submit by Jan 26
Issue 4 Submission Call – THE HOOGHLY REVIEW Updates Issue 4 Submission Call 16 January 2025 We are looking for Poetry, Micro Prose, Flash Fiction, Flash CNF, Short Fiction, Short CNF, Novel Excerpts, Plays, Scripts, Art, Photography, Mixed Media, Cartoons, Comics, and Graphic Narratives. For details on submission periods (yes, they vary accor...
PWE legend, radio star Rachel Matthews - Author
cripes
15/01/2025
https://www.mascarareview.com/submissions-open-for-disability-anthology/
Submit your creative nonfiction writing, poetry, short stories, and new experimental work to an anthology of creative writing by disabled and neurodivergent writers to be edited by Mascara Literary Review and published by NewSouth Publishing focussing on the perspectives and voices of First Nations and CaLD, disabled writers.
The call out is open to diverse styles within the genre, including new experimental writing alongside established creative non-fiction and consideration of theoretical essays. All contributions will be paid $500 and the deadline is 31 March, 2025.
The Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing (PWE) at RMIT University is recognised as one of the premier writing programs in Australia and provides excellent training for a wide range of editing and publishing roles. Testimony to this, the teaching team won the 2017 RMIT Vice-chancellor’s Distinguished TeachingAward.
PWE is dynamic, inspiring and industry-connected. You are taught by published authors who know their craft intimately and have a passion for nurturing newer writers. Your editing teachers have strong industry credentials; they’ll teach you the essentials, and support you to cut your teeth on real-world publishing projects. You’ll also meet prominent and innovative players in Melbourne’s vibrant publishing scene who visit PWE to share their expertise and knowledge of a fast-changing industry.
The student cohort is wonderfully diverse. While their skills, life experience and interests vary, they share a love of reading, writing and creating. Of making and sharing their work and ideas. And this is where community starts.
This is an intensive but flexible program, with weekly seminars and 4-hour classes for up to four subjects in 16-week semesters. You can complete in two years of full time study, or work at your own pace as a part-time student. Recognition of prior learning is also available.
At this trade school for writers and editors, you’ll learn by doing. Your fiction and nonfiction writing, with an eye to publication, will be complemented by skills in editing, professional writing and digital technologies. You’ll leave ready to build a sustainable freelance practice or in-house career in writing, editing or publishing.
Professional Writing and Editing is also offered at diploma level as a specially designed business writing and workplace communications program. This attracts a broad range of students, often mature age, who want to up-skill in this field, gain a qualification, move into communications or editing roles, or start their own freelance businesses.
Relevant links
Official RMIT page for the Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/levels-of-study/undergraduate-study/associate-degrees/ad016
Visible Ink is an extra-curricula project, where every year students form a publishing collective to produce an anthology of new writing.
http://visibleinkanthology.com/
https://www.facebook.com/visibleinkanthology
Cardigan Street – stories from RMIT’s professional Writing and Editing program. This online magazine was created by the 2014 Magazine Writing and editing class using Medium, and now features a range of student nonfiction work, including a link to the Creative Hive site produced by our Creating Digital Content students.
https://medium.com/cardigan-street
