Overview
It is particularly suited to Summer School students looking to develop their creative voice independently and alongside their existing critical writing skills. It teaches students to explore distinct narrative and/or poetic voices and techniques and issue as well as learn from peer-feedback in workshop environments.
What makes great storytelling now, and what makes new narrative or poetic voices so distinctive? What is challenging about writing creatively in the present moment, and how do we understand what constitutes a story or a poetic form in our own writing?
This Creative Writing Now course from Queen Mary University of London draws on a range contemporary literature in English, and will give students the freedom and the tools to experiment with fiction, nonfiction or poetry, and to shape their own creative voices in the process. Using a combination of writing workshops and seminar-style discussion, we will address the ways contemporary literature reckons with a world in flux (BLM, #MeToo, climate change) and invents new, experimental ways to move beyond the boundaries of literary form. Writers we will look at include Claudia Rankine, Ocean Vuong, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Patricia Lockwood, Sheila Heti, Diane Williams, Gwendoline Riley, and Natasha Brown.
Course aims
This course aims to:
- to give students the opportunity to explore the relationships between contemporary literary forms and the content, subject matter or issues that may be addressed by different and overlapping approaches or genres.
- to explore with students a range of international contemporary literature, in the fields of poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
- to provide students with a supportive framework in which to develop their own literary practice, and make judgments about subject matter and form.
- to give students a critical context for their work and encourage them to reflect on its relationship with the contemporary.
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You will gain:- a knowledge of narrative technique
- a critical and practical understanding of imagery, structure, and form in relation to prose fiction, nonfiction, and/or poetry
- an understanding of the contexts of writing in prose fiction, nonfiction, and poetry today
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Duration
- Full-time
- 22 days
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Other requirements
General requirements
To join our Summer School, you should have completed a minimum of two semesters’ study at your home institution.
We welcome Summer School students from around the world. We accept a range of qualifications:- if your home institution uses the four-point Grade Point Average (GPA) scale, we usually require a 3.0 GPA
- if your home institution uses the letter scale, you will need to have a B+
- We welcome international qualifications and we consider every application individually on its academic merit.
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International
2415 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2415 GBP for the full programme during 22 days. -
National
2415 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2415 GBP for the full programme during 22 days.
- One Session £2415
- Both Sessions £4588
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