NOTTINGHAM CREATIVE WRITING HUB
at Nottingham Trent University
Welcome to the Nottingham Creative Writing Hub at NTU
Nottingham Creative Writing Hub is the central place for writers at Nottingham Trent University, including Creative Writing students and staff, and is hosted by the Department of English, Linguistics and Philosophy.
Ntu is the home of dynamic and long-established undergraduate and postgraduate courses in creative writing, with a very exciting and thriving community of writers. here you will find links to our courses, member profiles, and information about events, awards and publications..
NTU’s School of Arts and Humanities has some of the finest writers in the country on its staff, in fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, creative non-fiction, and other genres. Many of our members are also academic and press critics. Our students often do extraordinary things. This is a great place to find out about what these writers do, what they’re up to, and how you can get involved. We believe in community and communication, the principles of open inquiry, and great writing – wherever it comes from.
NTU’s School of Arts and Humanities is also home to the Centre for Research in Literature, Linguistics and Culture . Most of our staff and PGR members are also members of this Research Centre, and the points of connection are multiple and varied. We urge you to check that out too.
If you are a Hub member, or are in any way affiliated with our activities, and wish to have an article considered for publication on the Nottingham Creative Writing Hub blog, please contact the Hub Convener Rory Waterman (contact details linked under ‘Members’).
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Study options.
- International
What will I learn?
Develop career-based skills in journalism, social media and content creation, earning both a university degree in Media Studies with an Option in Creative Writing, and a college diploma in Journalism/Mass Media – all in just four years.
This integrated degree and diploma program offered by Trent University Durham GTA and Durham College gets students career-ready with practical media production experience gained in college, and crucial critical thinking and writing skills developed in university. Through an emphasis on hands-on learning, you’ll gain new confidence building a strong portfolio of work that will help launch your future journalism, broadcasting and media.
Resume Boosters:
- Gain valuable work experience with a seven week field placement, working with top media outlets such as the Toronto Star, CBC, CTV News, and Metroland
- Sharpen your skills participating in non-fiction and creative writing workshops
- Build a portfolio of work in Durham College’s "working newsroom," where you'll explore and create content for all media platforms
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
- Content Creator
- Social Media Manager
- Media Relations Specialist
- Communication Officer
- Broadcaster
- Investigative Reporter
- PR Professional
- Website Developer
- Digital Media Strategist
Which department am I in?
Full time (15 credits typically completed over three years).
Please check with institution
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution
September 2024, January 2025
1600 West Bank Drive,
PETERBOROUGH,
Ontario (ON),
K9L 0G2, Canada
Entry requirements
For international students.
Ontario Secondary School Requirements:
Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) A minimum of six Grade 124U or 4M courses, including program specific prerequisites A minimum 70% overall final average ENG 4U with a minimum of 60%
English Language Proficiency Tests:
- TOEFL: minimum score of 86 IBT with a minimum writing score of 20.
- IELTS: minimum score of 6.5, with no band below 6.0
- CAEL: minimum score of 60
- Cambridge B2 First, C1 Advanced/C2 Proficiency (Certificate of Advanced English): 176, with no sub-score below 169
- Pearson PTE Academic: minimum score of 59.
- The Duolingo English Test score of 115
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
About Trent University
With a focus on interactive learning, Trent University has been ranked the best undergraduate university in Ontario for ten years running.
- #1 university in Canada for scholarships and bursaries
- 96% of graduates employed within two years
- International students from 79 countries
- State-of-the-art campuses close to nature and cities
Creative Writing BA (Hons)
- Level(s) of Study: Undergraduate
- Typical Offer: 104 - 112 UCAS tariff points
- UCAS Code(s): W800
- Start Date(s): September 2024
- Duration: Three years full-time, four to seven years part-time
- Study Mode(s): Full-time / Part-time
- Campus: City Campus
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Introduction:
This practice-based and industry-focused course – one of the ten best in the UK according to The Times Good University Guide 2024 – will introduce you to the intricacies of writing, including plot, characterisation and narrative study, and will equip you with work-ready skills for the many writing and writing-related industries.
You will develop your skills and talent as a writer through dynamic workshops, exercises and work-like projects involving writing, editing, publishing and pitching, all supplemented by the study of English.
Working alongside a range of highly-accomplished, widely-published professionals, including prize-winning, internationally-recognised authors, poets and screenwriters with real expertise in teaching, you will study at the heart of an active writing community, central to this UNESCO City of Literature. You will also learn how to give and receive critical input from tutors who will support and encourage you to follow your writerly instincts, to experiment, and to develop wide-ranging and highly applicable skills. Exciting, targeted optional modules enable you to pursue your interests.
Our keen focus on developing your employability skillset will ensure you are also extremely well placed to succeed in a wide range of careers.
Develop your creative and professional writing across a wide range of genres, working with highly active, multiple-award-winning expert writer-tutors. See our staff profiles below!
Undertake hands-on roles in creative project management and development, preparing you for work in and beyond the writing and arts industries, developing creative solutions to global problems.
- Develop confidence in your communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
- Undertake study abroad, if you would like to, with one of our international partners across the world.
Starting in September 2024, the School of Arts and Humanities, which includes this course, will move to our City Campus. The course itself will remain the same, with no changes to its content.
If you've already applied for this course, you should have received an email explaining how this move might impact you.
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What you’ll study
With guidance from experts, and as part of a thriving writing and literary community, you will experiment with writing in a wide variety of genres, including fiction, poetry, children’s and young adult fiction, writing for stage and screen, and writing for and with digital technologies. You will also gain valuable hands-on industry experience, and develop a detailed, first-hand knowledge of publishing and the literary industries. Ultimately, you will focus on your chosen specialisations, and further develop your craft and industry skills, equipping yourself fully for life beyond the course.
During the first year, you will study four core modules which focus on developing your own writing and reading skills, while introducing you practically and actively to a wide range of exciting genres and possibilities. In the second year, you will pursue your individual interests through a range of optional modules. There is also an opportunity to spend the second half of the second year on international exchange at one of our partner universities, if you wish to do so. In your final year, with close supervision, you’ll undertake a major project on a topic of your choice, as well as studying optional modules focused on refining your writerly and employability skills. Our course is developed with the utmost care, to allow you to explore enjoyable and exciting pursuits that will develop your writing and writing industry skillset, and your preparedness for graduate employment.
Beginning Writing: The Writing World
This module is designed to help you discover and develop your writing passions. Learn about, and tackle, the core elements of writing fiction, poetry, plays, and screenplays. Hone your skills in areas such as narrative structure, characterisation, dialogue, editing and revision, while learning from an exciting and diverse range of genres and styles of writing.
Writing, Editing and Publishing in a Sustainable World
Your introduction to the varied world of publishing, editing and writing for publication! You will be introduced to the skills required for editing fiction, non-fiction, poetry and scripts, in relation to your own writing and that of other practitioners – both fellow students and published authors.
Writing in a UNESCO City of Literature
Engage with the work undertaken by Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, as well as with the wider network of UNESCO Creative Cities, connecting with partner organisations in the creative and cultural industries. You will have opportunities on this module to develop work to submit for publishing consideration by Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, and can opt to write creatively, journalistically or critically.
Literary Pasts, Presents and Futures
Good writers are good readers! Study key authors and literary genres from the past and present, and consider where the literary world is heading now. Consider how texts ‘speak’ to one another across the ages, building a critical understanding of literary heritage, developments and innovations that will inspire your writing.
The Book Group
Explore four texts in depth, spending three weeks on each. This innovative module is designed to introduce you to ‘reading around the text', meaning you will also consider the historical and cultural contexts to excellent writing.
Ways of Reading
This module introduces you to the many different ways in which you might read and interpret texts. You will explore critical approaches to literature, and the different 'lenses' through which it might be read, considering questions related to authorship, publication and form, along with questions relating to writing and interpretation, around issues such as gender, race and the environment. This will encourage you to question what it means to read texts from particular perspectives, what assumptions we make as we read, the relationship between a text and the world, and even what it means to be human.
Core modules
Magazine publishing: concept to dissemination.
Learn about magazine publishing through the ages, the contemporary publishing industry, and the means of producing and disseminating literary publications. Working in a small team, you will collaboratively develop your own literary/cultural magazine, producing and commissioning professional content, and considering everything from commissioning and layout to publication, lunch and dissemination.
Advanced fiction and its Contexts
Further develop your skills at both writing and interpreting fiction. You will consider exciting fiction in various genres, from across the English-speaking world, and will write and edit your own fiction and analysis, refining your craft and style. You will also learn about related aspects of the publishing world.
Digital Storytelling
This module will enable you to become confident in presenting your writing online through hypertext, audio and visual means, and provides opportunities to explore how digital technologies can be used within your creative practice. It will provide you with opportunities to explore how digital technologies can be used within your creative practice, and will also provide you with a digital portfolio to show future employers. Through analysing case studies, digital platforms, and your own work, you will be able to critically reflect on the most appropriate medium for your creative practice.
Optional modules
Pathway 1: extended work-like experience.
Get the experience you need for after you graduate, and really understand how the things you study translate into the world of work with a work placement. Your highly experienced Employability Team will help you find a placement to suit your career goals from our huge network of companies, charities, institutions, and beyond.
Pathway 2: An international exchange
Travel the world, meet new friends, and have experiences you will remember for the rest of your life.
Our flexible curriculum has been designed to allow some amazing opportunities for you. Your second year of study is divided into two semesters, giving you the opportunity to take part in an international exchange. You could study with one of international exchange partners in Australia, Europe, USA, Canada, Thailand and many, many more.
Our dedicated team will support you in finding and arranging a suitable exchange. And don't worry about the cost, they will help you apply for any grants or loans you may need, as no one should miss out on the chance to broaden their horizons.
Pathway 3: Taught pathway:
Working with scripts.
Develop your scriptwriting skills, whether for screen, stage, radio, or podcast. Learn about the working environment in which scripts are commissioned, written and produced, and develop important, exciting hands-on skills and experience.
Contemporary Working-Class Writing
What characterises ‘working-class writing’? How has the working class in Britain been represented in literature since 1950? Is there still a class structure in Britain and have circumstances been changing for the better? The texts on this module consider a variety of forms including novels, plays, short stories, poetry and non-fiction to develop an informed understanding of the intersections between social class and gender, sexuality, ethnicity and place. You will gain an understanding of modern and contemporary social and cultural history, and heritage and develop the ability to critically analyse topical debates about class in Britain.
Poetry and its Contexts
This module will introduce you to advanced poetry writing. By engaging with the work of five modern poets, from across the English-speaking world, you will study poetry with a broad range of concerns and in a broad range of styles, and write your own, developing your skill and craft and learning about the markets for poetry.
Creative Writing Major Project
This module provides an exciting opportunity to develop your own long-form creative project, which may be a feature-length play/screenplay, piece of fiction, collection of poems or short stories, or something else entirely, with expert supervision from a specialist in your chosen genre.
The Freelancer
Enhance your employability by developing your own personal and professional portfolio. You will work to develop your professional skills in a working environment by completing twelve hours of targeted freelance activity, which you will reflect on in a portfolio.
Optional modules - choose three from:
Poetry and the planet.
This option module considers how contemporary writers think through the relationship between the human and the more-than-human world. You will discuss topics including climate change, environmental justice, species extinction and indigenous knowledge in order to understand how the arts and humanities can help us to engage with modern challenges. Incorporating writing workshops and a field trip, students will have the opportunity to respond creatively and critically using a range of print-based and digital media.
Writing for Magazines: Regional, National and International Contexts
How do freelance writers carve out a niche in magazines and other publications? How are such working relationships built and maintained? This module will introduce you to writing for a wide range of local, national and international magazines, both creatively and critically. You will study the differences, where they exist, between print and digital publication, and write and pitch a range of articles in different styles.
Collaboration and Performance
Collaboration can be vital to working as a writer, and in many other fields of employment. It can also teach you many valuable work and life skills. On this optional module you will examine collaborative writing projects, and then work in small teams, in a writers’ room environment, to develop your own project. You will then advertise it, and perform it for an audience.
Creative Writing in the Community
Develop your theoretical and practical understanding of applying creative writing and workshopping in community settings. This module prepares you for public speaking and developing and running projects, within and beyond creative writing.
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I’ve found it a great joy to be able to get to know my tutors over the course of my degree. They’re helpful and insightful, I feel that if I had any issues or questions, they wouldn’t hesitate to lend a hand where they could.
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Prerequisite: Students must contact [email protected] for details; also requires permission of the instructor and 1.0 credit from ENGL 2851H, 2853H, 2855H, 2859H, 3851H, 3853H, 3855H, or 4851H. As a complement to your studies in creative writing, we recommend you study English literature from as wide a range of periods and places as possible.
Students who have fulfilled the requirements for an Honours or General degree in any subject may graduate with an Option in Creative Writing if they have successfully completed 4.0 credits from the following courses, including courses from at least two different departments: CAST-INDG-GESO 2485H. CUST 2526H.
Memoir writing, storytelling and novel writing workshops and drop-ins take place at various times throughout the year at the public library. Most sessions are free, and some even come with coffee to help you through your writer's block! The library also periodically hosts popular and local authors for readings and book signings.
The balance of completing creative writing exercises and having a dialogue and discussion was perfect, and I was always inspired every week. I met a group of lovely like-minded writers and plan on staying in contact to follow each other's writing journeys. Creative Writing for Beginners student
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