Creative Writing in Literary Contexts
Price
£250
Duration
5 Weeks
About the Course
The course will enhance your awareness of advanced writing contexts and introduce techniques for drafting, editing, and preparing work for submission. It explores creative writing through short fiction, poetry, and life writing, linking your practice closely to reading and examining the reader's role in the writing process.
Learning Outcomes
By completing the course, you will:
Develop skills for drafting, editing, and revising creative work.
Understand key differences between short fiction, poetry, and life writing.
Engage with texts as both reader and writer.
Produce polished short fiction, poetry, and life writing.
Independently develop a creative project with feedback.
Reflect critically on your writing progress and identify future directions.
Reading
During the course we will be considering the following authors:
Lydia Davis
Sharon Olds
Mimi Khalvati
Anand Sharma
John Connell
James Wood
Julia Bell
Mary Karr
Mark Strand
Jeffrey Wainwright
Your Instructor
Dr. Helen Forrester
Dr. Helen Forrester is an accomplished writer and lecturer in Creative Writing at a UK university. She holds a PhD in Contemporary Literature and has over a decade of experience teaching creative and life writing. Helen’s work spans short fiction, poetry, and memoir, with her stories appearing in literary journals such as Granta and The London Review of Books.