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CREW 103: Introduction to Creative Writing

This course seeks to enable your development as a writer through the discussion of core issues in Creative Writing and detailed critical engagement with your own and others' work. Throughout the course, a series of lectures will offer insight into issues such as plot construction, character development, and the use of poetic form. We also value the opportunity to expose students to writers talking about their practice. These lectures are combined with workshops in which new work is developed and refined through a number of different strategies. As well as engaging with exercises set in class, students are expected to use ideas and issues raised to develop their own independent creative work.

Although the content of workshops is outlined here, this should be seen as a guide: whilst ensuring coverage of the syllabus, tutors will tailor their workshops to the nature and interests of the group. The various strands of the course will equip the successful student with a range of skills and knowledge which are essential to a writer's development, necessary for studying Creative Writing at Part 2 (years 2 and 3), and transferable to other academic study and the professional world beyond.

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