How do creative writers emerge from, work within, speak to and challenge their cultural and creative contexts? How do those contexts shape our creative identity and practice? What are the varied professional practices and communities that form part of a creative writer's work? How do writers engage with a range of media, from broadsheets to podcasts to social platforms? This module will introduce you to a range of creative and critical methodologies and approaches to your own writing that take exchange and conversation, broadly understood, as a starting point, including using interdisciplinary research; intertextual practices such as collage and translation; collaborative and editorial exercises; and reviewing. You will reflect upon and analyse the current literary and publishing landscape, and how your work might respond to it. Your final portfolio of texts may include a range of forms, such as book reviews, manifestoes, and articles, alongside your own poetry, fiction and/or creative non-fiction, and you will be invited to reflect upon the relation between these forms. You will learn professional skills that are essential to the work of a creative writer, and begin to situate your own writing in a 'creative commons’ of shared intellectual resource and exchange.
Private Study: 128
Contact Hours: 22
Total: 150
Main assessment methods
Seminar Participation: 20%
Reflective Journal (1,500 words): 30%
Portfolio (2,000 words or equivalent): 50%
Reassessment methods
Alternative assessment: 100% Coursework (2,000 words).
The University is committed to ensuring that core reading materials are in accessible electronic format in line with the Kent Inclusive Practices.
The most up to date reading list for each module can be found on the university's reading list pages: https://kent.rl.talis.com/index.html.
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Make use of a range of innovative and collaborative creative techniques and methods in the production of creative texts, in a range of forms;
2 Understand the role of the creative writer as editor and critic and the interplay of creative and critical approaches, and produce a range of texts emerging from these perspectives;
3 Begin to understand the role of the creative writer in responding to, interpreting and shaping broader cultural and creative contexts.
The intended generic learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Identify and apply strategies of close reading and writing relevant to the material they encounter;
2 Demonstrate their understanding of a range of creative forms through creative and critical responses;
3 Participate in group discussions through a variety of methods including creative workshops and forums;
4 Begin self-directed research and discuss, evaluate, and creatively deploy secondary critical and theoretical perspectives;
5 Reflect critically on their own creative practice and that of their peers, and understand the choices available to them;
6 Manage their time and workload effectively.
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