Module manager: Dr Jess Richards
Email: j.Richards3@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
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This module is not approved as an Elective
This module introduces you to the study of Creative Writing at MA level. You will write regularly and gain practical experience writing fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. You will develop and hone your skills in the ‘creative writing workshop’ where you will receive feedback on your work from your peers and the tutor. You will engage with and discuss key contemporary texts and media ‘as a writer’ and explore key debates in creative writing with a growing awareness of the writer’s relationship to the literary community and industry. You will be able to discern and apply feedback in the development of your own work and demonstrate a reflexive approach to your creative process and to setting, adapting and achieving your writing aims. The module will prepare you to specialise further in advanced option modules and in your Research Project.
Students will develop their creative writing practice through regular writing, including in response to set exercises. The module will have sessions focused on gaining practical experience writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The weekly workshops will be dedicated to giving and receiving feedback on student writing, examining key literary texts that demonstrate relevant genre conventions and innovations, and discussing texts and media that reveal key debates in creative writing, including the relationship of the writer to the literary community and industry.
1. To develop a Master’s level creative writing practice with experience of writing fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction
2. To gain experience of the advanced ‘creative writing workshop’ (giving and receiving feedback) and be able to select and apply that feedback in the development of one’s own writing
3. To develop a practice of ‘reading as a writer’ to identify genre conventions and innovations and key debates in creative writing
4. To gain awareness of the writer's relationship to the literary community and industry
5. To demonstrate a reflexive approach to one’s own writing aims and process
NB: Five (rather than four) learning outcomes can be necessary to teach and effectively assess the discipline of Creative Writing, especially in this core module, which encompasses the practical/creative and the contextual/reflective.
This module introduces you to the study of Creative Writing at MA level, and indicative content includes:
- Reading and discussing salient literary texts and media that demonstrate relevant genre conventions and innovations
- Reading and discussing texts and media that reveal key debates in creative writing, including the relationship of the writer to the literary community and industry
- Regular writing practice in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, with work submitted and read for the ‘Creative Writing Workshop’
- Participation in the ‘Creative Writing Workshop’ in which feedback is given and received in the session
- Set writing exercises
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| Private study hours | 280 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 20 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300 | ||
One unassessed informal presentation and brief extracts of work-in-progress submitted regularly for peer and tutor feedback.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio | A portfolio of prose or poetry or an agreed equivalent for other methods of delivery (if visual/sound/performance/intermedia poetry) | 70 |
| Critique | A critical reflection | 30 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 30/04/2025
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