School of English
Module manager: Sarah K. Perry
Email: S.K.Perry@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2026/27
| ENGL2070 | Developing Creative Writing |
ENGL2070 Developing Creative Writing
This module is not approved as a discovery module
Developing Creative Writing in Poetry offers a module for students to engage in the practice and consideration of creative writing, with a focus on poetry. Through engagement with the creative processes and research frameworks of contemporary poets, and the development of a poetry portfolio in a workshop setting, students grow their writing, research, and editing skills. Through ‘Reading like a Writer’ and building an analytical understanding of their own place in the contemporary literary landscape, students develop, and then draw on personalised reading lists to place their own writing choices in context.
Developing Creative Writing in Poetry is designed to extend the writing and feedback practices embedded through Developing Creative Writing in Prose, but with a focus on poetry. Weekly ‘writers’ workshops’ offer peer and tutor feedback, and support you to develop your project reading list with tutor-input. Poet-led masterclasses serve to introduce you to multiple approaches to writing poetry and reading as a writer, with different themes and techniques approached each week. This module continues to provide you with the ongoing guidance that will help you develop your creative writing projects. You will continue to read widely together, and your conversations about such literature will also be related with growing depth to your own independent projects. You will undertake writing activities, and receive constructive feedback from your peers and tutor on your new and maturing plans to allow you to revise and develop them still further. Assessment on the course will be based on the creative elements you produce as well as analysis of your creative choices and of the literary context of your work.
On successful completion of the module students will be able to:
LO1. Creatively apply the defining characteristics of a chosen creative genre to produce original, high-quality creative writing.
LO2. Analyse your creative process by reflecting on feedback and revising work to improve clarity, coherence, and artistic impact.
LO3. Contextualize your writing within contemporary literary, cultural, and socio-historical frameworks, demonstrating informed creative choices.
LO4. Use research effectively to support and enrich creative writing.
SLO1. Manage their time and initiative to complete multiple interconnected tasks towards a portfolio.
SLO2. Locate and evaluate appropriate sources with which to inform and reflect on creative choices.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| Seminar | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Private study hours | 170 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 30 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Formative feedback will be available in the weekly seminars where students “workshop” their creative writing as a group with input from the module staff and/or fellow students. At each of the Masterclasses, students will undertake work in relation to set tasks. They will develop their critical and creative frameworks by co-creating reading lists with their module tutor, as the semester progresses.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Portfolio of creative and analytical writing | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
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Last updated: 30/04/2026
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