SEL8709 : Creative Writing: Craft
- Offered for Year: 2025/26
- Module Leader(s): Professor Sinéad Morrissey
- Co-Module Leader: Professor Lars Iyer, Mr Andrew Thompson
- Owning School: English Lit, Language & Linguistics
- Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters
Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.
| Semester 1 Credit Value: | 20 |
| ECTS Credits: | 10.0 |
| European Credit Transfer System | |
Aims
To extend and nuance the range of skills and subject matter of students writing creatively and to encourage formal and thematic experimentation, while allowing students the framework in which to reflect critically and creatively, and culturally on their own and other people’s writing.
Outline Of Syllabus
Over the course of taught sessions and scheduled individual tutorials, students will look at a range of literary devices in order to develop their understanding of the tools and resources available to them as writers. Students will explore potential sources and resources, experiment with a variety of dictions and registers, and have the chance to move towards developing their work in response to seminars, tutorials, and independent study and practice.
The module will usually cover the following fields of writing: poetry, prose fiction, theatre script. Students will be allocated the relevant seminar group.
Teaching Methods
Teaching Activities
| Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Small group teaching | 10 | 2:00 | 20:00 | Students will be allocated to the seminar group relevant to their area of study |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Drop-in/surgery | 1 | 0:20 | 0:20 | One-to-one |
| Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 179:40 | 179:40 | N/A |
| Total | 200:00 |
Teaching Rationale And Relationship
Through close reading, discussion, writing exercises, and feedback, students will apply their knowledge of a range of forms, techniques and thematic concerns to their own writing practice. They will incorporate the skills of revision, self-evaluation, and selection into the preparation of their final creative portfolio.
Through workshops and exercises, students will become familiar with a range of creative techniques.
Assessment Methods
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Other Assessment
| Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio | 1 | A | 100 | A mixed portfolio of creative and essayistic work. The submission should not normally exceed 4000 words. |
Assessment Rationale And Relationship
Students demonstrate acquisition of knowledge and skills, and further demonstrate their understanding of their own creative practice, through the submitted portfolio of creative and essayistic work.
Reading Lists
Timetable
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- SEL8709's Timetable