Creative Writing (Online Distance Learning) (Taught)

If you're a talented and ambitious writer looking to develop your craft and take your writing to the next level, Glasgow's renowned Creative Writing MLitt is ideal. Develop your writing practice wherever you are in the world by gaining creative and critical skills on this exciting and supportive online course.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

• Our MLitt in Creative Writing is delivered within a clear three-part structure, focused on creative, critical and editorial skills.

• Our Creative Writing programme has gained an excellent reputation with writers, agents and publishers. The University's writing courses are among the most challenging and popular in the UK.

• These courses have helped launch the careers of an impressive list of acclaimed authors including, but not limited to: Anne Donovan, Helen Sedgwick, Kirsty Logan, Jen Hadfield, JL Williams, Louise Welsh, Zoe Strachan, Elizabeth Reeder and many others.

• You'll be taught by successful and well-regarded writers who specialise across diverse genres. We are happy to supervise students working in established genres but just as keen to see students mix genres or create new forms. In addition, you'll be able to tap into the University's strong network of literary agents and publishers, as well as an impressive list of published alumni.

• This online programme is 1 year full time. If you are already working full time or have family commitments, the course can also be completed on a part-time flexible study basis over 2 years.

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

The full-time programme consists of the following courses. The part-time programme consists of the same courses split over two years.

Semester 1
Creative Writing: Craft and Experimentation 1 (DL)
Creative Writing: Editing and Publication 1 (DL)
Creative Writing Workshop 1 (DLearning)

Semester 2
Creative Writing Workshop 2 (DLearning)
Two optional courses should be taken. Typically, this would be the following two courses:

Creative Writing: Craft and Experimentation 2 (DL)
Creative Writing: Editing and Publication 2 (DL)
However, any suitable 20 credit Level 5 (SCQF level 11) online distance learning course offered by the college may be taken, subject to availability and agreement with the convenor.

Summer Semester
Creative Writing Portfolio (PGT) (DLearning)

Programme outcomes

• Experiment with a range of voices, techniques and genres and consider major creative and editorial engagements

• Develop a critical understanding of a diverse creative, theoretic and critical texts

• Develop editorial skills

• Gain an understanding of literary techniques and ideas

• Access the work and thought of a wide range of literary artists

• Produce extended portfolios of creative and editorial work

• Understand the writing context (audience, publishing in all its forms, the legal framework, modes of transmission)

• Become disciplined in writing regularly in a stimulating workshop and tutorial environment in which writing skills can be acquired, discussed and honed

• Be part of a stimulating and critical peer group that reads, engages with, and appraises one others work

• Understand the means of literary transmission and how these means affect your own work

• Meet, hear and talk to professional writers and individuals from publishing and other transmission industries

• Display an understanding of the mechanisms (historical and contemporary) of literary textual transmission and other forms of transmission (including performance) in their various technological, commercial and artistic aspects