This module will develop your craft in the sonic and visual elements of writing with a particular emphasis on visual storytelling, poetics, and scriptwriting. Topics covered may include writing a silent film, song lyrics, contemporary and digital poetry, spoken word, writing for the screen, and ekphrastic writing. Students may specialise in a chosen genre or work flexibly across several genres of imaginative writing.
By the end of the course students should have a greater degree of appreciation for the visual elements of cinema, poetics and storytelling, their sources in both painting and literature, and a greater understanding of the poetics of sound and its interplay with the visual in creative writing.

Portfolio 1: Original Creative work in the form of a complete piece or completed pieces.
Learning Outcomes 1, 3 and 4

Portfolio 2: Original Creative work in the form of a complete piece or completed pieces.
Learning Outcomes 1, 3 and 4

Critical Reflection: Reflection of the creative and editorial processes in relation to the portfolios.
Learning Outcomes 2, 3.

There will be a programme of seminars and/or workshops related to carefully chosen literary and theoretical texts, with individual tutorials available to support your own creative writing. One of the principles underlying this module is the belief that the practice of writing can be assisted by knowledge and understanding of literature from a writerly perspective. Therefore, the process of critical analysis in the programme of workshops will accompany creative writing, reading and evaluations of student work in the sessions. We will consider a number of literary forms, stylistics and techniques as an aid to students' own writing in in a variety of genres and forms.

1. Demonstrate a systematic understanding of key aspects of sonic and visual elements of imaginative writing informed by work at the forefront of creative writing.
Knowledge and understanding.

2. Demonstrate an understanding of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge in relation to the creative process.
Learning.

3. Demonstrate independent learning through exercising initiative, personal responsibility to creative original imaginative writing and to reflect on this creative process critically.
Reflection.

4. Apply the methods and techniques learned to review, consolidate, extend, and apply knowledge and understanding and devise creative and reflective work using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of a discipline.
Application.

Library and VLE

BROWNLOW, K. 1976. The Parade’s Gone By, Berkeley: University of California Press

FUNKHOUSER, C. T., 2007. Prehistoric Digital Poetry, An Archaeology of Forms, 1959–1995, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

KAC, E., (ed.) 1996, ‘New Media Poetry: Poetic Innovation and New Technologies’ in Visible Language Vol. 30, No. 2, Rhode Island School of Design.

MURCH, W. 2001. In The Blink of an Eye, Los Angeles, CA.: Silman-James.

NAJI, J., 2021. Digital Poetry. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

O’CONNOR, T. 2006. Poetic Acts & New Media, Lanham MD: University Press of America.

ONG, W.J. 1989. Orality and Literacy – The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge.

RETTBERG, S., 2019. Electronic Literature. Cambridge: Polity Press.

TABBI, J. 2017. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature. London: Bloomsbury.

TARKOVSKY, A. 2010. Sculpting in Time: Austin: University of Texas Press

TAYLOR, R. (ed.) 2005. The Eisenstein Collection: Sergei Eisenstein, Calcutta: Seagull.

WOOLARD, A.S.T. (2020) The Advanced Rhyming Dictionary: Multisyllabic Rhymes for Rappers and Poets. London, Grosvenor House Publishing.

Song lyrics, Spoken Word, Storytelling, and Cinema focus our creative practice on the sensory aspects of writing, and in this module, you will explore the relationships between the auditory origins of poetry, its visually innovative manifestations, and its recent technological development into digital forms, such as the videopoem. In screenwriting, we will analyse and understand the visual and auditory history and principles of writing film.