Adventures in fiction writing

Overview

What you will study

Each week of the Adventures in fiction writing course offered by University of Cambridge has a theme which relates to an area of literary production which writers can tap as a resource for their own writing. Tutor videos will encourage students to explore the theme through structured reading, discussion and writing prompts. Students will be encouraged from the beginning to engage with classmates. There will be a wide range of writing exercises offered each week – students are completely free to engage with as many or as few as they wish, and are only required to self-select one of their own pieces of writing each week to post in the ‘Gallery’ forum. The tutor will respond to this piece. This is to encourage students to try a variety of approaches with no pressure and decide themselves which piece arrives at the most successful outcome, and which would most benefit from feedback. It also enables students with minimum time available to complete only one exercise a week if they wish, whereas those with more time/energy/motivation will have a rich array of opportunities to explore their creativity.