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Undergraduate Creative Writing Modules

Undergraduate Creative Writing has become firmly established over the last 25 years and Lancaster University introduced one of the first schemes. The importance of the student-generated text is central to our educational aims.

The course stimulates new writing through such strategies as creative workshops, lectures, seminars, workshops given by visiting writers, and regular submissions to seminars. You will be engaged in a critical feedback loop of writing, receiving and giving criticism, and then rewriting. Each new piece of writing invents unique problems and we believe that they should be solved within the context of the author's intention and vision for the work. Rather than teaching orthodoxies of technique we promote heterogeneous practice in a range of literary forms in the belief that the cross-fertilization through discussion of form and language leads to greater autonomy and learning on the part of the student.

For many more examples, see our page on publications by past and present students.

Year 1 Module

  • CREW 103: Introduction to Creative Writing

Year 2 Modules

Year 3 Modules

 

Current Undergraduates

For undergraduate information including:

  • Part I & Part II Handbooks
  • Library resources
  • University links etc

go to resources for current students.

 

 

 

Livi Michael- Royal Literary Fund Fellow

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For help with your academic writing visit our Royal Literary Fund Fellow

 

 

 

 

 

Prospective Students

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Prize Winners and Successful Authors

A significant number of our graduates have gone on to become successful authors. Recent Lancaster writers who have won or been nominated for major prizes include:

  • Ali Shaw (Desmond Elliott Prize
  • Monique Roffey (short-listed for the Orange Prize)
  • Jacob Polley (shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize)
  • Andrew Miller (James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award)
  • Ray Robinson (James Tait Black Memorial Prize).
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