Module manager: Chad Campbell
Email: C.Campbell1@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
Students will have an interest in developing a variety of creative writing skills and techniques in the context of developing their own work.
This module is approved as a discovery module
The creative writing workshop brings writers together to develop their creativity and writing with the support and guidance of a professional writer. The tutor will set reading and writing exercises that focus on different craft techniques each week, to enable you develop your writing skills. You will be guided in thinking about writing as a practice and process and learn to build your own sustainable writing practice. We will focus on short story / prose, poetry, and script, but you will be free to choose your favourite form for your final assignment. The tutor will lead workshop discussions and develop your capacity to give, receive and act upon constructive feedback. The module is assessed wholly by your creative coursework and critical commentary (a short essay highlighting what you have learnt across the module). The module requires your regular participation in individual writing exercises and small group discussions of your own and your fellow writers’ work-in-progress. For further information contact Chad Campbell C.Campbell1@leeds.ac.uk
On completion of the module, students will be equipped to originate, extend and complete ideas for free-standing pieces of creative writing. They will be able to demonstrate an understanding of and make an informed choice from the range of options available to writers when constructing creative work. They will understand and apply the workshop method of developing work-in-progress to their own and group members' writing.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Identify, explore, and write within the parameters of a given form/style and apply these parameters in relation to specific creative goals;
2. Identify their own emerging style and preferences in writing;
3. Situate their work within the wider context of prior and current work that is similar to their own;
4. Develop the ability to critically access and comment on the work of their peers and established authors;
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
5. The ability to think and write critically and creatively.
As part of this module, students will develop a range of digital literacy skills. Further details are provided in the Minerva area.
Student-produced writing is at the core of this module. The tutor will introduce activities designed to catalyse students as creative writers. You will have the opportunity to explore your motives for writing and to experiment with a range of styles, forms and approaches. The course also requires you to take responsibility for your learning by engaging in flipped classroom activities each week. This will enable you to generate a wide range of original writing, leading you to develop your voice as a writer. The course will explore aspects of structure, form and aesthetic effect. You will be introduced to and supported in workshop methods, whereby individual work is circulated for group comment and criticism.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop | 11 | 2 | 22 |
| Independent online learning hours | 11 | ||
| Private study hours | 167 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 22 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Independent online learning
A minimum of one-hour engaged online learning activity each week (11-hours)
Private Study Hours
Reading: 57
Writing: 70 hours
Research: 40
Throughout the module, there will be at least three opportunities for in-depth peer feedback on your creative writing. You are also expected to submit half a draft of your creative work and contextual commentary for written feedback from your tutor on the date specified in the Minerva area, approximately Week 6 or 7 of the semester. This feedback will assist you when producing both parts of your assignment. There will be an opportunity to discuss this with your tutor in Week 8 or 9. Verbal feedback will be provided within sessions.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Creative Work + contextual commentary | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Example of creative work developed from coursework, e.g. either prose: 3000 words; or poetry: 150 lines; or script: 20-minutes; or other to be negotiated with the tutor; or an appropriate combination of two or more of these, plus 1000- word contextual commentary.
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 08/05/2025
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