Goldsmiths creative writing

An open day view our virtual open programme is designed to meet the needs of committed students who are interested in exploring and exploiting their own possibilities as writers, and in critically examining their own writing. It is unique in combining creative and life writing in a stimulating and enriching examine relevant literary and cultural theory as well as the politics and practicalities of language and writing from the point of view of the tioner-led, the programme offers you the opportunity to work with a range of published writers who visit the college to give readings and lead ng writers have included william fiennes, jackie kay and aminatta forna. Two of our graduates (ross raisin and evie wyld) were recognised in granta's best of young british novelists 2013 e the work of students currently enrolled on the programme in the goldfish online t the you have specific questions about the degree, contact maria are three main components of the masters:Creative and life writing porary contexts for creative and life will be two core modules: a two-term workshop in creative and life writing, and a one-term contemporary contexts for creative and life writing seminar op in creative and life students attend this two and-a-half-hour compulsory workshop – part-time students attend in their first year. In the first term you will be encouraged to experiment with a variety of genres in creative and life writing, and then in the second term to develop your individual interests in poetry, fiction, autobiography and biography, or perhaps a fusion of those term you submit a piece of your own writing together with a critical account of how you have structured and developed it. The workshop also enables you to debate issues raised in the contemporary contexts module in relation to your own porary contexts for creative and life is a two-hour seminar module, made up of informal talks by visiting speakers, followed by a seminar.

These talks might be by practising writers, biographers, critics or philosophers (from both outside and inside goldsmiths). Wide-ranging topics have included: the role of the writer and politics; writing the self; the relationship between contemporary fiction and biography; the relationship between fictional and non-fictional autobiography; writers and their readers; the publishing world; contemporary ideas about language; gender and both the contemporary contexts module and the workshops you will be asked to consider works by significant contemporary writers in relation to your own writing practice. You can choose from a specialist workshop in fiction, poetry or life writing, or an option from the list of ma options offered by ecl including topics such as european avant-garde, postmodernist fiction or re-writing ment is by the submission of four pieces of writing of 5,000 words each – either an essay, or, for workshops, a piece or pieces of creative or life-writing – plus a critical account of how you have structured and developed your work. You will also be assessed on a portfolio (maximum of 20,000 words) containing a piece or pieces of creative or life-writing together with a critical account of how you have structured and developed your work. If you would like an earlier version of the programme specification, please contact the quality note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every h at goldsmiths is ranked:2nd in london for creative writing*.

Classical literature and linguistics, to creative writing and contemporary fiction, we take a critical and creative approach to the a department we’re interested in a field of enquiry that extends from old english to 21st-century literatures in english, french, spanish and italian. So you can study texts and films across a variety of periods and have a dedicated writers’ centre that encourages new writing and stimulates debate about all forms of literature. And we award the annual goldsmiths prize (for “fiction at its most novel”), which brings critically acclaimed writers like ali smith and eimear mcbride to may be one of the largest departments at goldsmiths but that doesn’t mean you won’t get personal support. Learn from our approachable team of academic staff and become part of the student-run english one of the first departments in the uk to offer creative writing, you’ll be part of a hub of literary excellence – our graduates have gone on to win prestigious awards from the orange prize for fiction to the sunday times young writer of the out more about the department of english and comparative literature. I hear the laugh of another girlenter my silent kingdom,i stand my ground, iron your pantsand imagine you’re in grandfather is writing a directoryof corporation rubbish he dies, which he will,i hope i don’t inherit tes of this programme include tom lee, lucy caldwell, ross raisin, amy sackville, rohan kriwaczek, evie wyld, sara grant, naomi foyle, bronia kita, lijia zhang, ashley dartnell and suzanne joinson and the poets emily berry, andy spragg, kate potts, jack underwood, abigail parry, anthony joseph, katrina naomi and matthew them they've won or been shortlisted for awards including the sunday times/efg private bank short story award 2012, the rooney prize for literature 2011, the 2008 and 2011 dylan thomas prize, several eric gregory awards, the sunday times young writer of the year award 2009, the john llewellyn rhys prize 2009 and 2010, the guardian first book award, the new writing ventures prize, and several betty trask graduates have gone on to work in publishing (for example, as senior commissioning editors), journalism, public relations, teaching, advertising, the civil service, business, industry, and the ma will enable you to develop transferable skills, including: enhanced communication and discussion skills in written and oral contexts; the ability to analyse and evaluate different textual materials; the ability to organise information, and to assimilate and evaluate competing out more about employability at is currently working on her third novel, despite not yet having finished the second, in the hope of fooling the ‘difficult second novel’ kita completed her ma in creative writing at goldsmiths in 2006.

She teaches creative writing to children of primary school 's first novel was awarded the john llewellyn rhys prize for the best work of literature by a writer under sackville studied at leeds and oxford before taking an ma in creative writing at goldsmiths in first novel, the still point, was published in january 2010 by portobello books. It’s a thrill seeing young writers i’ve worked with at goldsmiths have their books accepted. Blake has been a professor at goldsmiths since 2003 and is the director of the goldsmiths writers’ ’ve been at goldsmiths for ten years this year. Yes, it will be 10 years in october, but my relationship with goldsmiths goes right back, to when i ran a poetry workshop at the college in my mid-twenties. But you can’t live in a place for long and avoid writing about it, and the river especially has begun to flow into my poems and novels – the thames barrier and the millennium dome have already featured, and the shard will be there in my next book.

I spent 15 years doing a full-time job as a books editor, writing only in spare moments, on the side. I wish i’d put my own writing at the centre of things a little earlier. Teaching writing to others inevitably makes you more aware of what you’re up to in your own work. That thrill hasn’t altogether gone away, to get a finished copy of a new book is always a big moment, but the bigger thrill these days is seeing young writers i’ve worked with at goldsmiths have their books accepted. In you need assistance with your english language, we offer a range of courses that can help prepare you for postgraduate-level apply directly to goldsmiths using our online application submitting your application you’ll need to have:Details of your education history, including the dates of all exams/ email address of your referee who we can request a reference from, or alternatively an electronic copy of your academic reference.

Personal statement – this can either be uploaded as a word document or pdf, or completed see our guidance on writing a postgraduate available, an electronic copy of your educational transcript (this is particularly important if you have studied outside of the uk, but isn’t mandatory). And comparative in literary studies: pathway in comparative literature & pathway of the ma in literary studies will centre on the study of the theory and practice of comparative h and comparative in literary studies: pathway in modern literary pathway of the ma in literary studies enables you to study, principally through its core module theories of literature and culture, a range of theoretical issues, currents and thinkers in literary and cultural theory from the turn of the twentieth century to the present h and comparative in literary studies: pathway in modern pathway of the ma in literary studies focuses especially on twentieth and twenty-first century h and comparative in multilingualism, linguistics & ma in multilingualism, linguistics and education is an applied linguistics programme with an emphasis on diversity, both linguistic and cultural diversity, which also provides a solid understanding of the theoretical and practical issues that arise in multilingual and intercultural educational h and comparative the peoplekeelan"my time at goldsmiths was one of the loveliest of my life"find out 's happening at beginning of the end for thought for the day? Nov 2017, 4:00pm ‐ 6:iths - university of ve writing and art l l contextobject in , catherine and rubin, patricia, ve writing and art full text ct or ve writing and art history considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing. Essays range from the analysis of historical examples of art historical writing that have a creative element to examinations of contemporary modes of creative writing about ments, centres and research units:Edit record (login required). University of london, new cross, london, se14 6nw, one: + 44 (0) 20 7919 7166 / email: gro@ght 2015 goldsmiths, university of a prospectus book an open degree promotes your intellectual curiosity and creativity by combining the study of english literature with the practice of creative writing.

It will develop your analytical and critical abilities as well as your imaginative study ba english with creative writing at goldsmiths? Level of the degree includes a year-long creative writing module that's taught by creative writing practitioners and active researchers, so you'll have access to excellent creative writing modules take the form of workshops that will develop your knowledge, lay the foundations of your creative writing practice, and specialise in prose fiction or 'll be encouraged to interact within a community of writers supportive of the development of your work, and will prepare a portfolio of work in your final 'll also study compulsory and option modules from the wide range offered by the host a programme of guest lectures that has included major names in literature, including alan bennett, germaine greer, and nobel laureates seamus heaney, doris lessing, harold pinter and derek graduates have a good employment record, and have gone on to work in publishing, journalism, pr, teaching, advertising, and the h studies at goldsmiths achieved a high score of 92% for teaching and 88% overall satisfaction in the 2013 national student survey (nss). The you have specific questions about the degree, contact jack level of the degree includes a single year-long creative writing module taught by creative writing practitioners and active researchers. Students will develop critical reading skills, gain a vocabulary for discussing and analyzing literary works, and through a close integration with the pass programme, will build up their academic writing and research skills in a series of short, assessed exercises that will aid in the writing and revision of their course work in the first year and throughout the pal texts might typically include mary shelley's frankenstein, shakespeare's the tempest, seamus heaney's north, and lorca's the house of bernarda tion workshop in creative tion workshop in creative workshop combines the study and practice of poetry and fiction in order to give you the opportunity to explore both genres, to develop your knowledge of form and technique and to lay the foundations of your own creative writing practice. The workshop, led by a creative-writing practitioner, will combine writing exercises with critical analysis of literary works from a broad range of cultures and eras, in addition to providing the opportunity to discuss your own work.

Pass in this module is compulsory for progression to the next uction to literature of the victorian uction to literature of the victorian module is based on writing in britain between 1830 and 1870. Both sections are presented with the support of the department’s creative take one compulsory module:Creative writing workshop (30 credits)after a first term in which you will build on the knowledge and skills, creative and literary, acquired through the foundation workshop by continuing to explore creative writing forms, in the second term you choose between a workshop in prose fiction and a workshop in poetry. You are advised on your choice, and the focus will be increasingly on developing your own body of creative work. The writers of the so-called ‘american renaissance’ – emerson, thoreau, hawthorne, melville and whitman – will be central to the module, as their writings are at the heart of the project of national self invention. Inevitably, the city, with its extraordinary contradictions, was intimately involved with some of the century’s most major literary module focuses on representations of the metropolis by a range of writers living and working in london across the period, and in so doing covers a range of genres (poetry, biography, essay, novel, crime writing) and subjects (everyday life, government, poverty, religion, law, empire).

You study english writing in the 14th and 15th centuries, especially social satire, the comic tale, varieties of romance, and autobiography. Study modernist writing in britain, ireland and internationally from the 1920s, including such works as eliot, 'the waste land'; woolf, 'mrs dalloway'; joyce, 'ulysses'; brecht, 'mother courage'; poems of yeats, auden, stevens and  module constitutes a ‘pre-1800’ choice. Major texts might typically include selections such as the 'anglo-saxon chronicle', 'beowulf', works by king alfred, ælfric, and -victorian english -victorian english  module examines selected literary works across several genres in the period 1901-36, concentrating upon english-based writings in the non-modernist tradition. Restoration literature: an anthology'; behn, 'oroonoko'; defoe, 'robinson crusoe';swift, 'gulliver’s travels'; richardson, 'pamela'; fielding, 'tom jones'; sterne, 'tristram shandy'; and works by burney and ility and romanticism: revolutions in writing and ility and romanticism: revolutions in writing and  module constitutes a ‘pre-1800’ choice. We will mainly look at place, memory, identity, home, diaspora, exile, refugee status, clandestine migration, surveillance, human rights, conflict, resistance, postcolonialism, nationalism, transnationalism, multiculturalism, assimilation dynamics and integration policies, gender, religious diversity and extremism, life-writing, as well as language, translation and the transcultural take one compulsory creative-writing module:Project development (30 credits)this focuses on the development of your own writing skills in the context of a critical awareness of recent writing, recent literary concerns and cultural theory, and knowledge about writing and publishing issues.

You are encouraged to interact within a community of writers supportive of the development of your work, small-group work in the first term leading into one-to-one surgeries to address concerns of writing practice as you prepare your portfolio of work in the second also choose modules (worth a total of 90 credits) from the full range offered by the department. Credit modules may vary from year to year, but recent examples have included:Caribbean women ean women explore representative african-caribbean and indian-caribbean women’s writing – prose and poetry – since the 1960s, with comparative study of black women’s writing in non-caribbean contexts. Ll gain an understanding of some major perspectives in modern narrative writing on the problematics of the great war, with appropriate strategies for analysing and interpreting literary techniques for the exploration of representative themes; it concentrates on ways of remembering and/or historicising the war in narratives published between 1923 and ular attention is paid to the significance of gender and to divergent cultural perspectives in britain, germany, and lios of original creative writing and critical commentaries on your work for each of the workshops, coursework portfolios, long essays, examinations (various timescales and formats). In writing and no element lower than you need assistance with your english language, we offer a range of courses that can help prepare you for degree-level more about our general entrance h at goldsmiths is ranked:2nd in london for creative writing*. This typically involves carrying out required and additional reading, preparing topics for discussion, or producing essays or project emphasis on independent learning is very important at goldsmiths.

You will learn to solve problems, to think critically and creatively, and to communicate with graduates have a good employment record: professions include publishing, journalism, pr, teaching, advertising, civil service, business and industry, european union private sector management and personnel work, and the media. You'll engage with theory and practice in literature and linguistics, and benefit from mutually illuminating critical debates in both h and comparative the peoplelucy"i love the energy and creativity of goldsmiths. Nov 2017, 4:00pm ‐ 6:iths - university of l issue: creative writing and art l l contextobject in , catherine and rubin, patricia, l issue: creative writing and art history,Art history, 34(2). University of london, new cross, london, se14 6nw, one: + 44 (0) 20 7919 7166 / email: gro@ght 2015 goldsmiths, university of an open day view our virtual open inter-relationship between theory, scholarship and the creative process is key to the goldsmiths mphil/phd in creative 'll be expected to combine your own creative writing – whether poetry, fiction or life writing – with research into the genre or area of literature in which you are working, to gain insight into its history and development, and to engage with relevant contemporary might be genre in the more traditional sense, for example satire, fictional autobiography, verse drama, or particular traditions to which you feel your work relates, for example projective verse, postmodernist fiction, or caribbean element of the phd – the critical commentary – will constitute around 30 per cent of the final work; the major part – 70 per cent – will be a creative work of publishable standard: a novel, memoir, book of poems or collection of stories, for ment is by thesis and viva phd students include bernardine evaristo, whose jerwood fiction uncovered-winning book mr loverman was written, in part, at american applicants especially should note that the british system does not include preparatory taught classes or examinations as part of the mphil/phd programme, except for an initial course in research out more about research degrees at t the you have specific questions about the degree, contact maria h at goldsmiths is ranked:2nd in london for creative writing*. The complete university guide subject rankings 2018 **research excellence framework 2014, times higher education research intensity subject rankings ***qs world university rankings by subject ment of english & comparative literature have a wide range of research specialisms; find out more about our staff and their research 'll develop transferable skills, including:Enhanced communication and discussion skills in written and oral ability to analyse and evaluate different textual ability to organise ability to assimilate and evaluate competing out more about employability at ch training ng in research methods and skills is provided both by the department and goldsmiths' graduate school.

The specific training requirements of your project will be assessed, and guidance provided on specialist seminars and conferences to attend, which can be supported where possible by assistance from departmental tly researching representations of koreans in conflict in first generation, second generation and western pak completed her ma in creative and life writing at goldsmiths in a canadian-born korean writer, she has a deep interest in inter-generational and cultural is currently researching representations of koreans in conflict in first generation, second generation and western literature. Other stories have been published in esquire, and broadcast on radio first collection of stories, greenfly, begun on the ma creative and life writing at goldsmiths (2000-2002), was published by harvill secker in 2009. Was awarded the royal society of literature's brookleaze grant to complete his second collection, the stories written during his goldsmiths of two critically acclaimed novels, one of which was chosen as one of the waterstones 11 best debuts of hardach is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, the registrar’s manual for detecting forced marriages, about kurdish refugees, and of love and other wars, about pacifists during world war former was chosen as one of the waterstones 11 best debuts of a journalist, she worked as a correspondent for reuters news agency in tokyo, paris and milan and has written for a number of publications including the atlantic, the guardian and the daily telegraph. She is currently writing a novel about art forgers, german expressionism and nazi-looted more profiles for this should normally have (or expect to be awarded) a taught masters in a relevant subject might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate lent accept a wide range of international qualifications. In you need assistance with your english language, we offer a range of courses that can help prepare you for postgraduate-level apply directly to goldsmiths using our online application submitting your application you'll need to have:Details of your education history, including the dates of all exams/ email address of your referee who we can request a reference from, or alternatively an electronic copy of your academic t details of a second referee.

Personal statement – this can either be uploaded as a word document or pdf, or completed see our guidance on writing a postgraduate available, an electronic copy of your educational transcript (this is particularly important if you have studied outside of the uk, but isn’t mandatory). It may also be possible to arrange an advisory you start at goldsmiths, the actual topic of your research has to be agreed with your proposed supervisor, who will be a member of staff active in your general field of research. If you're applying for funding, you may be subject to an application  department of english and comparative literature sometimes offers fee waivers for this d content ational odation at days, tours and country t support t with student mentary in creative & life programme is designed to meet the needs of committed students who are interested in exploring and exploiting their own possibilities as writers, and in critically examining their own writing. It is unique in combining creative and life writing in a stimulating and enriching h and comparative in literary exciting, intellectually rigorous programme gives you the opportunity to develop the study of literature from a variety of perspectives through a number of flexible h and comparative in literary studies: pathway in american literature & pathway of the ma in literary studies aims to enhance your knowledge and understanding of the literature that has sought to define or has emerged from 'america'. And comparative in literary studies: pathway in comparative literature & pathway of the ma in literary studies will centre on the study of the theory and practice of comparative h and comparative in literary studies: pathway in modern literary pathway of the ma in literary studies enables you to study, principally through its core module theories of literature and culture, a range of theoretical issues, currents and thinkers in literary and cultural theory from the turn of the twentieth century to the present h and comparative in literary studies: pathway in modern pathway of the ma in literary studies focuses especially on twentieth and twenty-first century h and comparative the peoplesally ealesmy year at goldsmiths was a great experience and the ma provided me with enough of a foundation and confidence in sociocultural linguistics to continue on my academic journeyfind out moresally ment of english and comparative 's happening at beginning of the end for thought for the day?