General
The course is designed to offer students the opportunity to develop their creativity and practical literary skills in a highly supportive, constructive learning environment. It also introduces students to some of the key processes and challenges involved in publishing creative written work, whether poetry or prose.
The teaching process consists of regular, carefully targeted critical advice and guidance from the class tutor and peer evaluation from class members in a workshop environment. Examples of writing by both recognised authors and class members will be used to stimulate both the appreciation and practical application of the basic principles of effective creative writing.
AIMS
- to provide an understanding of the processes of creativity and of the development of an original conception into a completed literary artefact
- to enhance students’ understanding and appreciation of literature through practical engagement with the demands of formal control, coherence and aesthetic impact
- to provide students with techniques for developing or extending their own creativity and practical literary competence
- to enable students to compare their own work with works by recognised and established writers
- students will be encouraged to write about themes connected with medicine, health, illness, disability, birth and death, and in this way will address key themes of the experience of medicine from the points of view of medical professionals and patients
This course is capped at 12 students
Course Coordinator: Helen Lynch h.lynch@abdn.ac.uk