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you encounter any broken links in these pages or would like to
add a website for consideration, please contact helen.whitehead@ntu.ac.uk
and mention trAced in your subject line.
Comprehensive listings are maintained by the British Council for
creative
courses and postgraduate
study .
 The
trAce Online Writing School
is now open with tutor-led online courses available in subjects
from fiction, screenwriting and poetry to writing for children,
Flash poetry, hypertext and new media writing.
Arvon Foundation
The Arvon Foundation was founded in 1968 and its writing courses
have, since then, gained it a matchless reputation. It runs courses
for anyone over the age of 16 who wants to write. Courses last
for four and a half days, are tutored by two professional writers
and are for up to sixteen students. They cover many disciplines
including, poetry, fiction, stage drama, and writing for TV and
radio. Some grants are available towards the cost of fees for
those on low incomes, the unemployed, students and pensioners.
The foundation has three centres: Lumb Bank in Hebden Bridge,
West Yorkshire; Moniack Mhor in Inverness-shire; and Totleigh
Barton in Devon.
Associated Writing Programs
With 290 colleges among its members the AWP mission is to "foster
literary talent" and "advocate the teaching of the craft of writing".
Enrolment offers you a copy of the AWP Chronicle, published
six times a year, and a job placement service. Although this is
probably the largest organisation dealing with the teaching of
writing in the world it should be noted that the flavour is distinctly
American.
Bath Spa University College:
MA in Creative Writing
This course aims to make students better writers, and to improve
their chances of publication. Working with peers and tutors who
are established and working authors, students are encouraged to
create a significant body of writing. Workshops allow experimentation
in genre, form and literary approaches. "In the last two years,
one former student has received a prestigious Gregory Award for
new poetry, one has been given a contract for three novels by
Fourth Estate, one has been offered a contract for a novel by
Picador, and several have had work read or performed on BBC national
radio."
Falmouth College
Of Arts: Postgraduate Diploma In Professional Writing
Cornwall's Falmouth College of Arts is famed for its methods of
teaching of traditional media subjects and equipping students
for careers as practitioners. It's not resting on its laurels,
though. This course takes as its starting point the fact that
the demands on professional writers has changed enormously over
the last few years. It covers the use of multimedia, Web design,
image editing, and page lay-out that any jobbing writer has eventually
to get to grips with. There is still space within the course to
look at literary writing, screen writing and so forth. Students
are expected to produce and maintain the award-winning Webzine
Writers' Bloc.
The Greek
Experience
The remote Greek island of Kythira is the setting for a series
of creative writing courses that focus on techniques for novel
and short-story writing. Tutors have included: Louis de Bernieres,
Helen Carey, Matthew Kneale and Rhona Martin.
Indian King Arts
Centre
Situated in Camelford, on Britain's north Cornish coast, this
community arts centre runs exhibitions, workshops and events such
as literary readings. A year-round series of residential writing
courses is held covering poetry, drama and fiction. The centre
also houses a library of literary journals and a collection of
almost 1,000 poetry books.
Nottingham Trent University:
MA Writing
This course concentrates on the development of students' own writing
- autobiography, biography, features, fiction, poetry, and travel.
It is taught through a combination of lectures and practical writing
workshops, and features regular contributions from practising
authors, critics and editors. In addition, trAce invites collaboration
from students interested in examining the active relationship
between writing and the internet.
Sheffield
Hallam University: MA Writing
This MA in Writing is modular, which gives a degree of flexibility
within limits for those combining studying with work. The focus
of the course which "aims to enhance skills in writing, literary
editing and teaching writing in the classroom" is largely determined
by the interests of students and can include components from elsewhere
in the School of Cultural Studies. It looks at the business as
well as the craft of writing.
Skyros
With centres in Greece and the Caribbean, Skyros is an established
'alternative holiday' company that offers residential writing
courses from May to October. Tutors have included, among others,
Rachel Billington, Andrew Davies, Nell Dunn, D M Thomas, and Sue
Townsend.
University
of East Anglia: Postgraduate Creative Writing Degrees
The MA in Creative Writing in the School of American Studies is
aimed at practising authors or those already writing seriously
who want to broaden the range of their work. Fiction, poetry and
scriptwriting are options. Theory as well as practical aspects
of writing are covered. Selection is by interview and submission
of a portfolio of work. A PhD in Creative and Critical Writing
is also offered, this involves an original and substantial piece
of work written specifically for the degree, whether novel, play
or screenplay, plus a critical analysis of the text and its relationship
to the genre it represents.
University of Edinburgh: Centre for
Continuing Education
The Centre aims to serve as a link between the University and
the wider community. Through its Open Studies and International
Summer Courses it offers a range of creative writing classes ranging
from nine-week workshop-based courses on various aspects of writing
that run through the year, to a series of intensive practical
one- or two-week courses usually scheduled for the summer.
University of Lancaster: Postgraduate
Creative Writing Degrees
An MA in Creative Writing on a full or part-time basis is on offer
at Lancaster university. For those who cannot attend the traditional
twice weekly workshop sessions, a distance-learning version of
the taught degree is also available either via traditional correspondence
methods or computer conferencing. The course is pitched at writers
already capable of producing published work. An annual workshop
on getting published is attended by representatives of publishing
houses. The university has also been taking on research students
in the field since the early 1990s. Applications from suitably
qualified writers with ideas suitable for MPhil/PhD research projects
are invited: "The completed thesis should be a sustained piece
of creative writing, of volume, length and publishable standard,
accompanied by commentary, criticism and appropriate references.
Only published writers or students with the highest level of commitment
and competence should apply."
University
of Manchester: MA Novel Writing
The Department of English and American Studies offers a taught
MA in Novel Writing consisting of a series of seminars and workshops
that run for one year. The following year is spent producing a
completed novel which, along with essays and a portfolio, forms
the basis for the final degree assessment.
Warwick
Writing Programme
Warwick university runs a degree course in English Literature
and Creative Writing and an MA in Writing. Visiting authors giving
talks/readings include: Martin Amis, Andrew Davies, Maggie Gee,
Hanif Kureishi, and Esther Freud. The aim of the programme is
to "encourage good reading as well as writing, to develop sound
expository skills, and to bridge 'academic' and 'creative' approaches
to literature in a fully integrated curriculum."
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