The MA in Creative Writing offers students the opportunity to develop postgraduate skills in creative writing within the context of a School of English with a long and distinguished history in creative writing. The programme covers a range of literary forms, including poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction genres. The course develops students’ skills as creative practitioners and explores the history, generic conventions and experimental possibilities of creative literary forms.
The course is structured through a combination of core modules and option modules and culminates in the independent creative writing research project. Total credits required for the programme are 180 credits (3 modules per semester).
Students take the core module Approaches to Creative Writing, which introduces students to the study of creative writing at MA level. They must take at least one of two options titled Writing Prose Fiction and Writing Poetry, which immerse students in the creative practice of these genres and current debates in these fields. Students may further choose from other creative and/or creative-critical options which develop students’ knowledge and practice in specialist forms of creative writing. And/or they may choose optional modules from a range of offerings in the School of English, alongside modules in digital media and performance in the School of Performance and Creative Industries.
The research project, which is the capstone of the programme, includes some plenary lectures in semester 1, once students have been prepared to begin independent research by the core module Approaches to Creative Writing. The research project module, which is the other core module for the programme, continues in semester 2 in the form of individual supervisions under specialist creative writing staff. During the summer students complete this independent project, with the goal of producing a single extended piece of creative writing, or a portfolio of creative writing, which may be developed further for publication. This goal is a key distinctive learning outcome of the programme.
The ‘creative writing workshop’ is at the heart of the pedagogy of the programme and is a distinctive learning and teaching method. The creative workshop embeds principles of the Leeds Curriculum by making students active partners in shaping their own, and their peers’, creative practice.
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL5900M | Approaches to Creative Writing | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5930M | Creative Writing Research Project | 60 | 1 Dec to 30 Sep | PFP |
Basket 1: Candidates will be required to study at least 30 credits from the following optional modules (both may be taken):
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL5910M | Writing Poetry | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5920M | Writing Prose Fiction | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Basket 2: Candidates will be required to study a maximum of 60 credits from the following optional modules coded ENGL5XXM. Please note that this is an indicative module list, and a selection of options is offered each year depending on staff availability:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL5013M | Magic in Fiction Writing (Creative Writing) | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5103M | Global Literature and Terror | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5161M | Language After Empire | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5225M | Children's Literature: Language, Discourse and Education | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5343M | Africas of the Mind | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5346M | So Where do you come from? Selves, Families, Stories | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5540M | Thinking With the Contemporary Novel | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5551M | Yorkshire Literary Landscapes: Writing Places and Identities | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5635M | Imagining Multicultural Britain in the 21st Century | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5665M | The Digital & English Studies | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5666M | Ways of Reading: Novels in the Age of Information Excess | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5700M | Writing, Archives, Race | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5756M | Fictions of Citizenship in Contemporary American Literature | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5817M | Shakespeare's Tyrants | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5837M | Victorian New Media | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5847M | War, Mourning, Memory: 1914-1939 | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5849M | Culture and Anarchy: 1945-1965 | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5851M | The Brontës | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5852M | Language, Society and Fiction | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5854M | Reader, Writer, Text: an introduction to Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5940M | Planetary Aesthetics: Animism, Mimesis and Indigeneity | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5950M | George Orwell: The Politics of Literature | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Subject to approval by the teaching school (by way of application form), if a module from the section immediately above is NOT taken, a maximum of 30 credits may be taken from the approved modules listed below:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PECI5407M | Digital and Intermedial Storytelling | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| PECI5409M | Script Development for Film and Television | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| PECI5411M | Arts Based Practices in Health and Wellbeing | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students may choose option modules from the following list of Medieval Studies modules if they wish (subject to availability):
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDV5100M | Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MEDV5235M | Medieval English | 30 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MEDV5245M | Old Norse | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MEDV5340M | Medieval Bodies | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
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