Writing
Choose from a range of exciting writing courses. Study writing at our beautiful country park campus with expert staff. All of our tutors are active published writers.
CMW3013 Fantastic London
We will introduce you to some of the best fantasy books set in London and to the writing techniques the authors have used. We’ll be exploring London itself with four walks and four opportunities to taste the food of London.
CMW3014 Playwriting for London
You will have the opportunity to study, create and analyse theatre plays at the same time as relate them to the stages and spaces used for the production of plays in London. Seminars and playwriting workshops will run in conjunction with theatre visits.
ELS3321 Shakespeare and Sexuality
This module studies texts by Shakespeare and contemporary dramatists in the context of Renaissance England, and as manifestations of some important concerns of the culture of the time: masculinity and femininity and sexuality.
ELS3323 Gender and the Postmodern
Gender is a central way in which we think and imagine ourselves. This third level module examines how gender has been configured within twentieth-century literary texts, and the role of writing in producing gendered identities.
SUM0002 Introduction to Creative Writing
This course introduces you to the craft and process of creative writing. The exercises carried out will stimulate skills in characterisation, dialogue, narrative, imagery. By the end of the course you will have developed your own writing voice and produced a selection of prose, fiction and poetry.
