Course Modules

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

This module explores the challenges made by women’s writing, both critical and creative, to established authority over the past two centuries.

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

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

This module will enable you to develop a variety of sophisticated traditional poetic forms and to develop experimental free verse poems within a reflective contemporary poetic practice.