📖Program Curriculum
Workshops
The first workshop module Professional Skills provides intensive group discussion and some plenary lectures You’ll bring short pieces of writing to small workshop classes led by a tutor There are separate groups for prose and poetry You’ll submit a manuscript proposal halfway through the module In trimester two you’ll take a second workshop module in either prose or poetry
Context
Each context module explores connections between your creative writing and the wider world as represented by a theme or genre Seminars are divided between considering set texts and workshopping your creative writing The set texts are examined from the point of view of practical lessons that the writer can learn You’ll take a context module in trimester one and another in trimester two
Manuscript
In trimester three you’ll take 'The Manuscript' taught by means of one-to-one tutorials This is the culmination of the course – the book or substantial part of a book
Course modules
This course includes or offers the following modules Please check the programme document for more information on which modules are core required or optional
Professional Skills
Prose Workshop 2
Poetry Workshop 2
Writing and Gender
Writing and the Environment
Writing with a Poet’s Eye
The Writer and Place
The Short Story
Modernism and Postmodernism
Narrative Non-Fiction
The Love Story
Historical Fiction
Writing Now
The Manuscript
