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Module

SEL8712 : Creative Writing: Workshop 1

  • Offered for Year: 2025/26
  • Module Leader(s): Professor Alex Pheby
  • Co-Module Leader: Professor Sinéad Morrissey
  • 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 2 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 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 cover different fields of writing. Students will be allocated to the seminar group that reflects their preference.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion1179:40179:40N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesSmall group teaching102:0020:00Small group teaching
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesDrop-in/surgery10:200:20One-to-one
Total200:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Through close reading, discussion, writing exercises, and feedback received in workshops, lectures and tutorials, 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.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Portfolio2A100A 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