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This module introduces you to the versatile genre of creative non-fiction, in which writers employ skills transported from fiction to lend dramatic complexity to factual narratives. Using autobiographical material as a base, you will generate dramatic scenes on a variety […]
Creative Non-Fiction: Starting From The Self Read More
This module explores the history and forms of visual storytelling and integrates the study of visual writing theory and practice, as you consider the narrative techniques and structures of miniseries, anime and manga.
From Manga to Witch-Maidens: Storytelling in Visual Culture Read More
This module introduces you to the practice of writing poetry. You will focus on working in a variety of forms and voices, which explore imaginative territories and poetic processes.
Introduction to Writing Poetry Read More
On this module you will build upon techniques for concrete imagery; writerly research; notebook gatherings; reflections on developing creative work. Students will encounter a variety of forms and voices in a range of examples from traditional and contemporary sources in
Introduction to Writing Short Fiction Read More
This module introduces you to the contemporary cultural landscape by exploring recent literary texts and transformations of the literary (film, graphic novels, digital texts, gamification, etc.). Tracing multiple forms of ‘writing’ and ‘reading’, you will gain the capacity to engage
Literature Now: Reading and Writing the Present Moment Read More
The module will train your observation skills. You will learn to apply the world around you to inform your creative processes. You will also learn the value of the ‘concrete’ as opposed to the ‘abstract’ and discover how the ordinary
Source and Exploration Read More
This module introduces you to the fundamental skills of creative writing through engagement with the writer’s notebook and a variety of sources, from both personal experience and in the locality. The module will focus on the training of the eye
The Writer’s Notebook: Source and Reflection Read More
This module explores the challenges made by women’s writing, both critical and creative, to established authority over the past two centuries.
Agents of Change: Women’s Writing in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Read More
This module introduces you to the versatile genre of creative non-fiction, in which writers employ skills transported from fiction to lend dramatic complexity to factual narratives. Using autobiographical material as a base, you will generate dramatic scenes on a variety
Creative Non-Fiction: Writing Lives Read More
You will examine and experiment as writers in three genres: travel writing ‘the new nature writing’ psychogeography. Assessment Over the course of the module, you will undertake three assignments, one in each genre. In so doing, you will develop a
Creative Writing Non-Fiction: Writing Place Read More
