Editing Workbook, 1,000 (not including drafts) (20%) [5, 4]
Process Journal, 2,000 Words (20%) [1, 2, 4]
Portfolio, 5,000 words (60%) [2, 3, 6]

This module will enable you to produce (a) sustained piece(s) of creative writing (either a complete piece of work, or the beginnings of a longer work). You will be involved in online group workshops throughout the semester, which will enable you receive feedback on your writing practice and comment editorially on the work of other students. A series of group discussions will help to stimulate ideas and offer guidance in matters of design and structure, and will provide opportunities for you to present your work.
This process will include writing short, constructive discussion-board posts on other students' drafts. You will be provided with detailed feedback both from the workshops and from your personal supervisor, who will be a member of staff from English and Creative Writing.

This is an opportunity to transition from shorter to longer or sustained work under the supervision of supportive and expert practitioners.

1. Analyse and document your own creative process, aesthetic influences, form, techniques and stylistic approach to form a critical awareness of your practice
Analysis

2. Demonstrate knowledge of contemporary writing in your chosen genre or style and develop an advanced appreciation of formal techniques and imaginative expression in creative writing.
Knowledge & Understanding

3. Compose a portfolio of original, completed creative writing.
Communication

4. Reflect on your craft from initial idea to finished draft noting revisions, editorial practice.
Reflection

5. Participate in group editorial discussion and apply editorial practices and conventions to your own writing.
Application

6. Present a creative portfolio which address a clear research question which includes appropriate research and bibliographic skills.
Enquiry

You will learn through peer online discussion and individual supervision, which will be supported by guided reading (short stories, poems, novels, plays) and learning materials (craft lectures, exercises, discussion questions).

Access to Library and IT facilities, especially the printed journals collection and JSTOR archive, the MLA database, Box of Broadcasts, the Oxford Online Reference Collection, Blackboard.

Recommended Reading

Fiction

Booker, C. (2016). ˜The seven basic plots. 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury.
Capote, T. (2002). A Capote reader. 1st ed. London: Penguin.
Faber, M. (2014). The Fahrenheit twins. 1st ed. [Place of publication not identified]: HarperCollins.
Gilchrist, E. (1991). In the land of dreamy dreams. 1st ed. Faber Paperbacks.
Handke, P. (1986). The left-handed woman. 1st ed. London: Methuen.
King, S. (2014). On writing. 1st ed. New York: Scribner.
Mackay, S. (1994). Collected short stories. 1st ed. London, England: Penguin Books.
McEwan, I. (1998) Amsterdam, London: Cape.
McKee, R. (2012) Dialogue: The art of verbal action for page, stage, and screen, NY: Twelve.
McKee, R. (1997). Story. 1st ed. New York: Regan Books.
Morley, D. and Neilsen, P. (2012). The Cambridge companion to creative writing. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Murdoch, I. (1989). The black prince. 1st ed. London: Theatreprint.
Nabokov, V. (2012). Pale fire. 1st ed. London [etc.]: Penguin.
Naylor, G. (1982). The Women of Brewster Place. 1st ed. NY: Viking.


Poetry

Bachelard, G. et al., 2014. The poetics of space, New York: Penguin Books.
Bergvall, C. (2011). Meddle english. 1st ed. Callicoon, NY: Nightboat Books.
Bo¨k, C. (2011). Eunoia. 1st ed. New York: Coach House Books.
Hoover, P. (2013). Postmodern American poetry. 1st ed. New York [u.a.]: Norton.
Oswald, A. (2016). Falling Awake. 1st ed. NY: W.W. Norton.
Perloff, M., 2005. The poetics of indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
Perloff, M. (2012). Unoriginal Genius. 1st ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Rankine, C. (2014). Citizen. 1st ed. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press.
Rothenberg, J., Joris, P. and Robinson, J. (1995). Poems for the Millennium. 1st & 2nd editions. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press.


Screenwriting

Campbell, J. (1972) The Hero with a Thousand Faces , Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
Cartmell, D. & Whelehan, I. (1999) Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text , London: Routledge.
Goldman, W. (2001) Which Lie Did I Tell? , London: Bloomsbury.
Hutcheon, L. (2006) A Theory of Adaptation , London: Routledge.
Rabiger, M. (2003) Directing – film technique and aesthetics, London: Focal Press.
Stam, R. (2004) and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation , London: Blackwell.
Tierno, M. (2002) Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters: Storytelling Secrets from the Greatest Mind in Western Civilisation , NY: Hyperion.
Wood, J. (2009) How Fiction Works, London: Vintage.