Creative Writing MA

Course

In Uxbridge

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    Uxbridge

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    September

About the Course MA Creative Writing at Brunel University London is designed for writers who want to express their creativity in a number of forms – novels, film scripts, poems, journalism – rather than specialise in only one. The Creative

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Location

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Uxbridge (Middlesex)
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Kingston Lane, UB8 3PH

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

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Subjects

  • Teaching
  • University
  • Poems
  • Full Time
  • Poetry
  • Design
  • Creative Writing
  • Screenwriting
  • Project
  • Writing

Course programme

Course Content

The MA consists of compulsory modules, a typical selection can be found below. Modules can vary from year to year, but these offer a good idea of what we teach.

Full-time route

Term 1

  • Elements of Writing: Fiction
  • Creativity

Term 2

  • Feature and Screenwriting
  • Writers at Work

Term 3/Summer Vacation (until the end of September)

  • Independent Writing Project

Part-time route

  • Term 1: Elements of Writing: Fiction
  • Term 2: Feature and Screenwriting
  • Term 4: Creativity
  • Term 5: Writers at Work
  • Term 6/Summer Holiday (until the end of September): Independent Writing Project

Module descriptions

Creativity (30 credits) explores the ways in which theory can illuminate what goes on in your mind and on the page when you are writing creatively or professionally and how that writing will be received by readers and by society at large. It also looks at how to be more creative in your approach to writing by considering everything from the choice of individual words right up to the overarching structure of a complete text.

Elements of Writing: Fiction (30 credits) investigates essential literary techniques, which are then discussed in seminars, revolving around exemplary novels, and practiced by means of workshopped exercises.

Feature and Screenwriting (30 credits) analyses the main strategies and conventions of feature and screenwriting and then practices them with workshopped exercises. Students choose to taker either the feature or the screenwriting strand.

Writers at Work (30 credits) is a career-focused module, which considers the teaching of creative writing in schools, universities and community environments, arts administration and artistic support initiatives. It will therefore look at what methods are used in the teaching of creative writingat how community writers’ groups and reading groups operateat how to organise literary festivals, poetry events, and writing competitionsat how to establish a career in the arts industryat how project design works and artistic projects get to be funded.

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Typical Dissertations

The opening chapters of a novela collection of short storiesa playa film, TV or radio scripta volume of poemsa portfolio of articlesa memoirtravel writing.

Additional information

Special Features

MA Creating Writing students are taught by some of the most talented, original, exciting and experienced writers publishing in the industry today. Brunel’s .

The broad range of forms, techniques and strategies taught on the MA Creative Writing gives you the opportunity to experiment and discover which suits you best. If you are already specialising in a particular area of writing, it will underpin your expertise by equipping you with a varied knowledge of other methods.

Creative Writing MA

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