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BA (Hons) Creative Writing and English Literature

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Course Overview

The writer's world has never been more diverse, exciting, and collaborative than it is today. UEA – which became the first UK university to teach creative writing over 50 years ago – has played a major role in shaping this world. Since then, countless writers have emerged from our seminars and workshops and made a lasting impact on the field of contemporary literature. Are you ready to join them?   

As a student of Creative Writing and English Literature, you'll hone your writing skills while exploring literatures from a host of genres, countries, and periods. You’ll take the same creative writing workshops as our English Literature with Creative Writing students. In addition, you'll dive into modules that will take your writing practice out of the classroom and into the working writer's world. Through seminars, workshops, and placements, you'll develop skills across disciplines and media, in community engagement, and in publishing and presenting your own work. In other words, you’ll be primed to enter a writer's world that is collaborative, thrillingly diverse, and endlessly exciting

‘To write is to practice, with particular intensity and attentiveness, the art of reading.’ So wrote Susan Sontag. In a similar way, at UEA we believe that good readers make good writers. It’s for this reason that we combine the study of Creative Writing with the study of Literature at all levels of our degree programmes. In this way, your creative and literary training go hand-in-hand. 

In addition to the creative writing workshops offered by our pioneering and world-famous English Literature with Creative Writing degree, this course offers you a suite of modules designed to help you enter the working writer's world once you graduate. You’ll become familiar with collaborative practice, working with makers and thinkers in other disciplines. On our innovative creative non-fiction module, you’ll experience writing in real-world contexts and learn how to make that world your subject. As your degree reaches its climax, you’ll learn how to produce, publish and perform your work to a professional standard.  

All along, you’ll be studying at a university rich in famous alumni, including Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Forward Prize winner Mona Arshi, and Nobel Prize winner Sir Kazuo Ishiguro. You’ll draw inspiration from this lineage, while working closely with our many practicing novelists, scriptwriters, poets in seminars and workshops. 

In your study of English literature, you’ll discover a wealth of writers from the classical past right up to poets and novelists writing now. You might explore diverse literary traditions from across the globe, and you’ll tackle a heady mix of genres, which currently range from the gothic to contemporary fiction, crime writing to children’s literature, early modern women’s writing to modern Japanese fiction.  

Whichever modules you choose to study, you’ll be taught by our world-leading writers and critics. UEA’s School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing is famous for innovation in teaching and for cutting-edge research – that’s why in the most recent Times Higher Education Analysis (REF2021), UEA was ranked 19th in the UK for the quality of its research in English Language and Literature. 

When you’re not in the classroom, you’ll be able to explore the glories of Norwich, an extraordinary place in which to be a writer. Not only is it jaw-droppingly beautiful; it’s also England’s first UNESCO City of Literature – awarded in recognition of the city’s vivid literary heritage and vibrant contemporary writing scene – and home to the National Centre for Writing . You’ll immerse yourself in this community, perhaps sharing your work with a packed audience of students and professional writers at our UEA Live: New Writing series, or attending literary festival events with internationally renowned figures.  

We say that UEA is the place where literature lives – when you join the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing , you’ll join a unique and supportive community of critics, writers, and drama practitioners, who bring literature to life every day.  It’s a pretty good place to be, and you can find out more about the activities in our School by following us on Instagram . 

Placement Year and Study Abroad

You have the option to apply to study abroad for one semester of your second year. Study abroad is a wonderfully enriching life experience – you will develop confidence and adaptability, and will have the chance to deepen your understanding of writing while learning about another culture. At UEA, you’ll be surrounded by the many students we welcome from around the world to study with us.  

For further details, visit the  Study Abroad section  of our website.  

Study and Modules

During your first year, you’ll take three bespoke Creative Writing modules, in which you’ll develop your range of skills as a writer. The first semester is all about cultivating your craft, testing out the possibilities of different forms and techniques, pushing your boundaries as a writer, and using writing exercises to help you generate material. In the second semester, you will experiment with avant-garde techniques and engage with genre, while developing the ability to critically reflect on your own creative practice. 

You’ll also explore writing as a collaborative practice, working with UEA students from other disciplines – which might include media, or medicine, or environmental science – to broaden your scope as a writer, working on new forms for new audiences. At the same time, you’ll improve your skills as a close reader of literary texts and begin to get to grips with the span of English Literature in core literature-based modules. This is the start of the exciting interplay between reading and writing which you’ll draw upon throughout your degree. 

Compulsory Modules

Creative writing: beginnings, creative writing: experiments with genre, new forms: writing in collaboration, reading literature in history, reading now, slow reading.

Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.

Teaching and Learning

Teaching 

Nurtured by our world-leading creative writing tutors (in seminars of around 15 people), you'll start to get to grips with creative writing's fundamentals, including strategies for creating character, writing dialogue, determining mood, and maintaining atmosphere. You'll be mentored as you collaborate with students in other disciplines – your first taste of the contemporary working writer's world. Lectures on literature will surprise you with new ideas, and seminar discussions led by your tutor will shape your thinking about what you've read that week. You'll meet your academic adviser who'll support you through your whole degree with everything from choice of modules to launching your career.  

Independent Learning 

You’ll spend time on your own writing and your collaborative projects. You'll throw yourself into the whirlwind of extra-curricular creative writing events and activities. You'll read some extraordinary books, with a framework of guided tasks to help you get the most out of them, and discover a wealth of new resources in the library. By the end of this year, you'll be equipped with the fundamental skills necessary for your creative and literary journey. 

Assessment  

Throughout your degree, all modules in Creative Writing and in English Literature have no exams – we believe that the best way to express your thoughts about literature and to show off your creative development is through carefully crafted pieces of written coursework. On the creative side, you'll start by writing your own prose and poetry, developing fundamental skills in drafting, keeping a writer's notebook, and submitting to deadlines, before embarking on more experimental exercises. You'll produce work collaboratively  and reflect on the collaboration process, developing a critical awareness of your creative practice. In your studies of literature, you'll develop renewed enthusiasm for writing academic essays, and express your thinking in a diverse variety of forms, from reviews to personal reflective writing.  

Feedback 

You'll receive feedback on your writing (creative and critical) from your tutors (e.g. in one-to-one tutorials) and your peers. Feedback on assessed work will be returned within 20 working days (after it has been carefully marked and moderated). As your first year does not count toward your overall degree result, it's a great time to experiment and take risks.  

You’ll begin to focus your creative writing on particular forms, choosing from prose, poetry, and scriptwriting modules. You’ll share your writing with your peers and with a published author in our creative writing workshops, receiving feedback and learning how to give constructive criticism to your peers, too. You might also take a module in creative non-fiction, which will develop your skills in life writing and hybrid forms, working both in the classroom and through a short placement that will give you direct experience of writing in the world.  

As a literary critic, you will be able to choose from all the available literature modules, gaining a grounding in a variety of literary periods and traditions. You might also choose to experiment with our innovative creative-critical modules, where the reading and writing of literature go hand-in-hand. Over the course of this year, you’ll take a module on Shakespeare or an historical period of English literature from before 1789.

Optional A Modules

Victorian writing, european literature, critical theory and practice, contemporary fiction, literature studies semester abroad (spring), medieval writing: quest, fable and romance (pre-1789), shakespeare (pre-1789), romantic transformations: 1740-1830, early modern writing 1600-1740: the making of english literature (pre-1789), optional b modules, reading and writing in elizabethan england (pre-1789), making it public: publishing, audience, & creative enterprise, literature and philosophy, reading and writing contemporary poetry, the writing of history, transatlantic literatures, the writing of journalism (aut), the short story (aut), lgbt and beyond: sexual cultures, queer identities, and the politics of desire, arts and humanities placement module, optional c modules, writing in the world: placements, podcasts, creative nonfiction, scriptwriting: tv/film, creative writing: prose fiction (spr), scriptwriting: stage/audio, creative writing: prose fiction (aut), creative writing: poetry (aut), scriptwriting: screen and stage.

Teaching  

Your creative work will now be taken to the next level through the 'workshopping' process (pioneered in the UK by UEA), where you'll get feedback on your writing from your peers under the direction of one of our creative writing tutors, and learn the art of offering constructive critique to your fellow writers. You might bring your writing into the wider world through a placement with an organisation or community group, supported by our creative writing team. Lectures and seminars will immerse you in particular eras of literature, and you may also take seminars in more vocational subjects like journalism or publishing (using our state-of-the-art Media Suite).  

Independent Learning  

You'll deepen your confidence in the craft of creative writing, gain real-world experience of the demands and exhilarating rewards of collaborating with others, continue to enrich your writing through the study of literature, and finish the year with a real sense of how your degree might open out into future careers.

You'll continue to submit 100%  coursework for all your creative writing and literature modules. Your creative writing will flourish as you produce more substantial pieces of prose (a 1250-word short story or longer 2000-word narrative), portfolios of poetry, or scripts for stage or screen (20-30 minutes in length), and write reflective pieces to understand better your own creative processes. Your writing will be energised by encounters with real-life subjects as you experience the writer’s world first-hand, and you'll write reflectively about the ethics and complexities of drawing on real life subjects. You'll continue to hone your critical essay writing, and you might experiment with 'creative criticism', for instance by writing a short story which reveals your critical understanding of that form.  

Feedback  

You'll continue to have the support and feedback of all your tutors, and your creative work will be deepened by your immersion in the workshop environment, where you receive feedback from your peers and learn to give feedback on their work, an enormously valuable skill in many careers.

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In your final-year creative writing modules you will focus intensively on your own practice. You’ll take a workshop, modelled on our world-famous Creative Writing MA. This will give you the chance to further develop your work in a particular form: prose, poetry, or scriptwriting. You’ll also have the chance to write a creative writing dissertation, in which you produce a substantial piece of poetry, prose or script, with one-to-one support from a tutor. Or you can choose a module in which you will be able to publish your own book  and develop skills in performing your own work for an audience. On the literature side, you’ll choose from a dazzling array of specialist modules organised into two option ranges – currently we offer topics covering everything from the global Middle Ages to contemporary children’s literature. 

CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE

Creative writing dissertation (aut), writing television drama, publication, production, performance, creative writing dissertation (spr), creative writing: scriptwriting, creative writing: prose (aut), shakespeare's dramatic worlds (pre-1789), the business of books (pre-1789), literature dissertation: post-1789 (spr), women's writing in early-modern britain: the emergence of female authorship (pre-1789), reading modern japanese fiction: translation and canonisation, literature dissertation: post-1789 (aut), nervous narratives, literature dissertation: (pre-1789) (aut), monsters, marvels and creative medieval heritage (pre-1789), the birth of the gothic: romance, revolution, empire, banned books, literature dissertation: (pre-1789) (spr), ghosts, haunting and spectrality, the art of murder, children's literature, imaginary endings: british fiction and the apocalypse, mythos: rewriting the classics (pre-1789), feminist writing, culture and performance, the art of emotion: literature, writing and feeling.

Your immersion in the writer's world culminates as you're mentored through the intensive editorial and revision process needed to ensure your work meets industry standards for publication or performance. You might take a three-hour workshop led by a member of our creative writing team, or choose to work one-on-one with a creative writing tutor to produce a substantial creative dissertation. Either way, you’ll be writing with confidence and a real sense of your writerly identity. Alongside this, you'll have the chance to explore cutting-edge literary topics in real depth, in three-hour seminars taught by specialists passionate about their subject.   

You'll work with increasing confidence and independence as a literary critic, and you'll have the option to bring together all your experience as a creative writer to complete the year (and the degree) with a tangible product of everything you've been learning – your own book and recorded performance piece.

You'll continue to be assessed by 100%  coursework. You'll have the option to take a module in which you turn your work into a book and performance piece that meets industry standards, and which is a full reflection of the writer you have become. You can also choose to participate in another workshop or to embark on a creative dissertation (6000 words writing / 2000 words reflection), the culmination of your achievements as a writer. Alongside your creative work, you'll have the chance to produce in-depth explorations of literature (3500-5000 words), and if you wish, you might continue to experiment with the forms in which you express your ideas about literary texts, writing Shakespearean sonnets or experimenting with the new boundary-defying genre of ‘auto-fiction’. 

You will continue to receive in-depth written and oral feedback, from both tutors and peers, in both workshops and one-on-one supervisions. All the feedback you've received will enable you to graduate with highly developed transferable skills in writing across a host of forms and for an array of audiences, together with an ability to give sensitive but incisive critique of others' work. 

Entry Requirements

A Level - ABB (subject specific requirements apply)

BTEC L3 Extended Diploma - DDM (subject specific requirements apply)

UEA are committed to ensuring that Higher Education is accessible to all, regardless of their background or experiences. One of the ways we do this is through our contextual admissions schemes.  

You are required to have Mathematics and English Language at a minimum of Grade C or Grade 4 or above at GCSE.

Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):  

IELTS: 6.5 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components) 

We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review  our English Language Equivalencies  for a list of example qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement. 

Test dates should be within two years of the course start date. 

If you do not yet meet the English language requirements for this course, INTO UEA offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study:  

Pre-sessional English at INTO UEA   

Academic English at INTO UEA   

Most applicants will not be called for an interview and a decision will be made via UCAS Track. However, for some applicants an interview will be requested. Where an interview is required the Admissions Service will contact you directly to arrange a time.  

We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year.  We believe that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry on your UCAS application.  

This course is open to UK and International applicants. The annual intake is in September each year.    

Additional Information or Requirements

Extended Diploma: DDD plus A in English Literature including English Literature or one of the subjects listed: English Language and Literature, English Language, History, Ancient History, History of Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Classical Civilisation, Classical Studies, Politics, Government and Politics, Sociology, Drama, Theatre Studies, Film Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Media Studies, Psychology or Law.

Diploma: DD plus A in English Literature or one of the subjects listed: English Language and Literature, English Language, History, Ancient History, History of Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Classical Civilisation, Classical Studies, Politics, Government and Politics, Sociology, Drama, Theatre Studies, Film Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Media Studies, Psychology or Law.

Extended Certificate: D plus AA to include one of the subjects listed: English Literature, English Language and Literature, English Language, History, Ancient History, History of Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Classical Civilisation, Classical Studies, Politics, Government and Politics, Sociology, Drama, Theatre Studies, Film Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Media Studies, Psychology or Law.

Special Entry Requirements

Candidates who are shortlisted will be asked to provide a sample of their creative writing:  we ask for around 5-7 pages of work, which can be on any subject and in any genre of the candidate's choice. Most choose to send poetry, prose, or a mixture of the two.

If you do not meet the academic requirements for direct entry, you may be interested in one of our  Foundation Year programmes such as - 

https://www.uea.ac.uk/course/undergraduate/ba-english-literature-with-a-foundation-year

We welcome and value a wide range of alternative qualifications.  If you have a qualification which is not listed here, or are taking a combination of qualifications, please contact us via Admissions Enquiries . 

International Requirements

We accept many international qualifications for entry to this course. View our International Students pages for specific information about your country. 

INTO University of East Anglia 

If you do not meet the academic and/or English language requirements for direct entry our partner, INTO UEA offers progression on to this undergraduate degree upon successful completion of a preparation programme. Depending on your interests, and your qualifications you can take a variety of routes to this degree: 

International Foundation in Business, Economics, Society and Culture (for Year 1 entry to UEA) 

International Foundation in Humanities and Law (for Year 1 entry to UEA)

Admissions Policy

Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all undergraduate applicants.  

Fees and Funding

Tuition Fees   

View our information for Tuition Fees .  

Scholarships and Bursaries  

We are committed to ensuring that costs do not act as a barrier to those aspiring to come to a world leading university and have developed a funding package to reward those with excellent qualifications and assist those from lower income backgrounds. View our range of Scholarships for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates. 

Course Related Costs

Please see Additional Course Fees for details of course-related costs. 

How to Apply

Apply for this course through the  Universities and Colleges Admissions Services (UCAS) , using UCAS Hub.  

UCAS Hub is a secure online application system that allows you to apply for full-time undergraduate courses at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom. 

Your application does not have to be completed all at once.  Register or sign in to UCAS  to get started.  

Once you submit your completed application, UCAS will process it and send it to your chosen universities and colleges. 

The Institution code for the University of East Anglia is  E14 . 

View our guide to applying through UCAS for useful tips, key dates and further information: 

How to apply through UCAS  

Employability

After the course.

You will be a first-rate writer and an advanced critical thinker with an independent cast of mind; you’ll know how to manage your time, how to work collaboratively, and how to operate as a writer in the world of work. With the support of our Careers Service throughout your degree, you’ll have honed your CV and sought out internships. You’ll have attended Working with Words, an annual event in which you get to meet UEA alumni working in the creative industries. You might have got involved with the UEA Publishing Project, or its student arm,   Egg Box , or undertaken independent research in UEA’s British Archive of Contemporary Writing . In an increasingly text-based world, these skills and experiences are highly valued by employers.    

You could go on to work as a prose fiction or non-fiction writer, poet or scriptwriter, or go into many careers in arts, media, publishing, politics, charities and NGOs, teaching, or the commercial sector.  You’ll also be well placed to study for a postgraduate degree, including one of our world-famous Creative Writing MAs. Regardless of the direction you choose, you will be superbly placed to start writing your own story. 

A degree at UEA will prepare you for a wide variety of careers. We've been ranked 1st for Job Prospects by StudentCrowd in 2022.

Examples of careers you could enter include:  

Freelance writer   

Scriptwriter  

Publishing   

Community and Arts-related Projects 

Marketing  

Communication and PR  

Discover more on our Careers webpages . 

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University of east anglia uea: creative writing scriptwriting.

Prepare for a career writing for theatre, radio, film, or television with an MA that allows you to explore and produce dramatic writing across the media.

You’ll study both the theory and practice of dramatic writing, addressing contemporary dramaturgical debates, analysing written and performance texts, and experimenting with a range of techniques in original writing. You’ll develop your skills in constructive criticism and the creative editing of your peers’ writing, creating a supportive writers’ network in the process.

You’ll be taught by renowned practitioners and visiting specialists through seminars, presentations, screenings, workshops, readings, and performance visits. All with the rigour and professional insight that are the hallmark of our creative writing teaching.

About This Course

The scriptwriting strand of our world-renowned MA Creative Writing has three core modules.

Firstly, Dramaturgy, in which you’ll study the core conventions of drama as explored from Aristotle to McKee and as embodied in a range of plays, films, and TV programmes, from Antigone to I May Destroy You.

You’ll also take part in the Scriptwriting workshop, building upon your study of dramaturgical theory, where each week you’ll benefit from the scrutiny and feedback of your fellow writers and workshop leaders, such as the renowned scriptwriters Steve Waters, Timberlake Wertenbaker, James McDermott, Ben Musgrave, and Sian Evans. You’ll incorporate this theory into your own writing practice in weekly creative development workshops, completing scriptwriting and planning exercises. Over the course of the workshop, you and your fellow writers will bring your exercises to the group for discussion and evaluation.

You’ll then go on to study the Process module, where you will explore the differing contexts of scriptwriting across media and develop a script for your choice of medium, building an idea from concept to realisation and exploring the modes of script development that are common practice for working writers.

Over the summer, you’ll also write a dissertation, under the supervision of a member of our faculty.

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PGT Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age Module (IIH), 25-26 February

Justine Mann contributed to a lecture on the digital preservation of cultural heritage collections. The students were introduced to the British Archive for Contemporary Writing and our research into the challenges of capturing and preserving the creative process in the archives of fiction writers who work in a hybrid print/digital environment. The session drew particular attention to the difficulty of preserving proprietary formats, drawing on a case study which examines Charlie Higson’s use of the popular scriptwriting software, Final Draft . The students will return to BACW in Week 12, for a session on digital exhibitions which will provide hands on experience in the use of the Omeka software used to build our Suffragette Stories exhibition. 22 attendees

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As part of their creative writing module, students explored digitised extracts from the Sara Taylor Archive to review the redrafting and editing process behind the writing of several chapters of her acclaimed debut novel, The Shore . Multiple workshops. 45 attendees.

Snoo Wilson Prize for Scriptwriting , (online event) 23 February

This annual award honours scriptwriting students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level whose work shows particular promise and is true to the spirit of inventiveness in Snoo's work. The 2020/21 awards were judged by Professor Timberlake Wertenbaker and Professor Richard Hand and the evening, held via Zoom for the first time, was chaired by Professor Steve Waters. We were delighted to welcome Snoo Wilson’s family to the event and to hear closing remarks from Ann McFerran, Snoo’s widow, a former Time Out theatre critic. Current UEA Drama students read extracts of each of the shortlisted plays. A brief introduction to Snoo Wilson’s archive and the British Archive for Contemporary Writing was given by Justine Mann. 70 attendees.

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In their visit to the Archives they looked back to our pre-history - a time when the site was a much loved  golf course; they gained a sense of the architect’s vision through early development plans; and saw photos of the site under construction, of quirky happenings, and the impassioned protests in the 60s and 70s. Attendees: 20 New Forms: Writing in Collaboration, LDC (UG) 14 February Week 3 saw an exciting new teaching session in the reading room. Forty students came to view the archive of poet and artist Jay Bernard. The archive contains stunning visual material and shows Bernard’s work as firmly rooted in archival research. Students were invited to return in small groups to view other archive collections and be inspired, producing their own collaborative creative pieces grounded in their archival experience. Attendees: 40 Doing History, HIS (UG) 26-28 February (7 sessions) Undergraduate history students were introduced to the Kenney Papers, the archive of two working class suffragettes. As one of our visitors noted: "You can’t learn how important sources are without experiencing it”. Attendees: 57 Sara Taylor’s Creative Process The Shore, LDC (UG) 4 March Always a favourite session with the archive, seeing talented, emerging creative writers examine the creative process of author and UEA graduate Sara Taylor. The group examine three drafts of a short story which becomes a chapter in the novel 'The Shore'. The group visit the original archive material to see the visual mapping done by Taylor in creating the world of her characters from family trees to storyline mapping. Attendees: 27 Cultural Heritage and Archiving in the Digital Age, AMA (PGT) 5 March A behind the scenes tour and hands on experience of archival digitisation make this session a morning of cultural heritage experience which adds value to our collections every time it runs. Students create digital surrogates of archives from 1917 and add accompanying metadata using Dublin Core metadata standards. Practice is the best way to understand why planning, structure and careful decision-making lie at the heart of archival best practice. Attendees: 6 Digital Humanities Theory and Practice, AMA (UG) 6 March Students of the digital humanities wrestled with identifying obsolete media from the Archive’s store. From floppy discs to VHS, from magnetic tape to mini discs the session looked at identifying and salvaging information from these problematic formats and the way that impacts cultural heritage practice. Attendees: 18 Digital Archives, PPD (PGR), 19 March With Grant Young (Academic Engagement Librarian). Research students encounter digital archives in many different ways during their research journey. From seeking sources to creating new data sets, an understanding of what drives the creation of digital archives can help make sense of what’s available and what isn’t. Examining barriers to digitisation and questions of provenance, description and access, this session helps students navigate the world of digital archives, its limitations and possibilities. Attendees: 3 Product and Process in Translation, LDC (PGT), 21 March Translation students came to examine Tom Phillips’ 'A Humument: a Treated Victorian Novel'. The students also looked at poetry ‘word art’ by Anthony Vahni Capildeo a writer and nonfiction author whose archive is deposited at UEA as part of the Uncollected Poets project of 2022-2023. Attendees: 10 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Special Collections event to occasion the arrival of Anna Sewell’s ‘Black Beauty’, 28 February This new special edition, signed by Her Majesty Queen Camilla, is a collaboration between Red Wings Horse Sanctuary and UEA Publishing Project. The Archives exhibited treasures relating to Women Who Changed the World (suffragette archives of Annie and Jessie Kenney; Doris Lessing Archive; Joelle Taylor Archive, Sara Maguire Archive and Patricia Crampton Archive). Our special guests included an inscribed first edition of Black Beauty from Norfolk Libraries Heritage Centre, kindly loaned for the occasion. Redwings is the custodian of Anna Sewell House, the birthplace of the author.   History Special Subject, 12 March With Hugh Doherty (Lecturer in Medieval History). Attendees: 13 The Roman Empire: Citizens, Slaves and Imperial Families, 21 March In this session undergraduate students are introduced to the UEA Archives and Special Collections through the ‘second Roman treasure’ of UEA. Students are led from the time of the Roman Empire to the present day at UEA Library through the exploration of our precious 15th century manuscript of Cicero’s Philippica. Attendees: 33 ENQUIRIES - TOPICS AND THEMES  BACW COLLECTIONS DORIS LESSING correspondence TASH AW novels and the creative process W.G. SEBALD recorded interviews OTHER COLLECTIONS JOHN HILL ARCHIVE coastal flooding KENNEY PAPERS diary of a 1917 trip to Russia PRITCHARD PAPERS Mansfield Forbes (historian) UEA COLLECTION Horsham residences; small bands and the local music scene ZUCKERMAN ARCHIVE Central Advisory Council for Science and Technology; Operation Overlord; Aurelio Peccei (Italian industrialist and philanthropist) STATISTICS - VISITS & ENQUIRIES Archives: 369 (46 remote): UEA 309; UK 41; Int’l 19 Special Collection titles consulted: 24 Microfilm: 2 ...

Imagine being 21 and your first professional job is document translator at the Nuremberg trials. That was Patricia Crampton in 1947. What followed was infinitely more joyous and playful....

KEY HIGHLIGHTS ARCHIVE LED TEACHING SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ENQUIRIES - TOPICS AND THEMES  STATISTICS - VISITS AND ENQUIRIES   KEY HIGHLIGHTS Uncollected Poets, The Enterprise Centre 22 November On 22 November 2023 we celebrated the launch of an inspiring new poetry archive with contributions from four wonderful voices in contemporary poetry: Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Jay Bernard, Joelle Taylor and Gail McConnell. The poets read from a new collection of their writing inspired by UEA's ‘Towards a Centre for Contemporary Poetry in the Archive’ project which has been funded by the Mellon Foundation's Public Knowledge Programme. The project aims to change the way archives collect contemporary poetry by widening the representation of different styles and voices and encouraging community involvement. Visiting Poetry Fellow Will Harris joined the poets in conversation to discuss their response to the archiving of their work. Unique items from the poets' archives were on display, alongside poetry by participants in the creative writing workshops they led for Norfolk public libraries during summer 2023. You can watch the Livestream recording here: Uncollected: Poets (youtube.com) A digital exhibition site and catalogues of the poets’ archives will be available shortly. We will announce via social media @ueaarchives (Instagram and X). Open Days, 21 October & 18 November Meeting potential students from all walks of life is an exciting prospect and getting to tell the stories behind our world class literary archives is always a delight. We were thrilled to meet potential students from all subjects and talk about how we embed our archives into academic teaching, meaning that our students get a strong introduction to higher level analytical skills and can make use of our resources for their studies. We received 137 archive visitors across the two open days. Farewell to Justine Mann (BACW Project Archivist) Towards the end of December the Archives and Library said goodbye to Justine who has done outstanding work in developing our literary archives for over 8 years. Justine has played a central role in mentoring and furthering the careers of the many who have worked, studied and volunteered alongside her. We wish her every success in her new post in the Development Office at UEA. ARCHIVE LED TEACHING A Behind the Scenes Tour (LDC PGT), 10 & 16 October Each year brings a new cohort of literary postgraduates, and we are always excited to meet them. We know that archives provide rich sources for creative and critical work in LDC so we bring the students right to the heart of the archive to show off the treasures waiting for them in the stacks. We want all UEA students to know that the archive is a resource for them to use and that everyone is welcome. Attendees: 12 Feminist Research Methods, 17 October Is archiving a feminist issue? A question which we address in a session for our Gender Studies MA students. Looking at what archives are defined, as and by whom, is vital in understanding why some voices have historically been absent in the archive. The two-hour session introduces parts of archive theory which impact data creation and analysis for these students. Attendees: 12 “It’s my favourite day of the teaching year - visiting the Archives! Thanks for having us and providing a space to reflect on the feminist knowledge(s) and histories we can (and cannot) produce through archives” [Tori Cann, Associate Professor in Humanities]. Using Digital Archives with Grant Young, 30 October We were joined by three postgraduate research students at different points in their research journey to explore how digital archives can help them. Bringing real world examples of how and why digital archives are created, and how they are managed, gives an insight into their usefulness to the researcher. Creative Writing Process – Sara Taylor’s Archive, 30 October, 1 & 2 November Four groups of creative writing undergraduates came to examine drafts of Sara Taylor’s novel ‘The Shore’. Comparing four drafts of a single chapter from the archive, the students got to grips with the creative process, editing, drafting and the business of being a writer. The engagement and insight that the students bring to the session is always amazing. Attendees: 38 Describing Poetry with Jeremy Noel-Tod, 13 November The Sarah Maguire archive was launched in summer 2023 and is already being examined by LDC postgraduates. The postgraduate ‘describing poetry’ module examined the drafts of four poems written by poet and literary translator Sarah Maguire. Handling the original archive material can be challenging but brings huge rewards. The group also examined Sarah Maguire as critic using her original correspondence and writing. Attendees: 15 Jekyll and Hyde – Cross Media Adaptation, 21 November In exciting and fun sessions we used archive scripts, correspondence and digital planning documents to examine Charlie Higson’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. The 2016 TV adaptation created a global adventure story based on the ubiquitous and familiar tale of a man who transforms into a monster. Looking at the process of commissioning, planning, drafting, editing and filming, the two groups of undergraduates discovered what a writer’s archive can reveal about adaptation for the small screen. Attendees: 31 Biography and Creative Non-Fiction in the Archive, 27 November The British Archive for Contemporary Writing is filled to the brim with material essential for writing the biography of a writer. The publications which have been researched in our reading room range from Doris Lessing, J.D. Salinger and Roger Deakin, and also contain the work of biographers themselves, working in innovative and creative ways. The group were able to see the sensitivities and difficulties around biographic research and the business end of creative work and publishing. Attendees: 16 Literary Translation in the Archive, 6 December The BACW is home to many literary translators’ archives including Patricia Crampton, Sarah Maguire, Ann Born and Anthony Vivis. In this session, MA students in Literary Translation (MALT) came to examine in detail David Bellos’s translation of George Perec’s haunting work ‘W or the Memory of Childhood’. Looking at drafting, editing and collaboration during the translation process. Attendees: 11 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS History Special Subject with Hugh Doherty, 30 October, 11 December We are delighted when rare books from our special collections become the focus for teaching sessions. Postgraduate taught Medievalists spent a couple of mornings in our reading room with ‘Liber Floridus: Codex Authographus Bibliothecae Universitatis Gandavensis’ and other titles, learning about the creation and survival of sources which inform the study of their period. Special Collections are a diverse and fascinating set of texts spanning the 15th Century to the present day and can be found on the library catalogue and ordered at [email protected] Attendees: 37 ENQUIRIES - TOPICS AND THEMES  BACW COLLECTIONS DORIS LESSING southern Africa; ‘Memoirs of a Survivor’; 1940s love letters NAOMI ALDERMAN ‘The Power’ TASH AW ‘We the Survivors’ and ‘Harmony Silk Factory’ WG SEBALD interviews OTHER COLLECTIONS PRITCHARD PAPERS Crime novelist Agatha Christie’s tenancy in iconic Lawn Road Flats UEA COLLECTION Brutalist architecture; SU newspaper ‘Concrete’ which celebrates 50 years; 9-day protest sit-in, 1971; prominent figures in UEA’s history ZUCKERMAN ARCHIVE Allied ‘Transportation Campaign’ before the Normandy invasion in 1944; science communication and wildlife documentaries; children and the Blitz. STATISTICS - VISITS & ENQUIRIES Archives: 344 (36 remote): UEA 175; UK 166; Int’l 3 Special Collection titles consulted: 23 (2 remote enquiries)  Microfilm: 1 ...

KEY HIGHLIGHTS FORTHCOMING EVENT – UNCOLLECTED: POETS OPEN DAYS AND WELCOME EVENING ARCHIVE LED TEACHING PUBLICATIONS & BROADCASTS ENQUIRIES - TOPICS AND THEMES  STATISTICS - VISITS AND ENQUIRIES KEY HIGHLIGHTS   UEA Archives’ Poet in Residence Jay Bernard at Great Yarmouth Library, 20 July Our poet in residence Jay Bernard led a poetry workshop at Great Yarmouth public library as part of our Mellon Foundation funded project ‘Towards a Centre for Contemporary Poetry in the Archive’. Fourteen public participants engaged in reflecting on who makes history and wrote and shared some poetry of their own. Their work will be on display at The Enterprise Centre at UEA from 22 November when Jay Bernard returns to reflect on the outcomes of the project and read from a specially commissioned pamphlet. Showcase Meeting with National Trust / Blickling Hall, 13 September This interdisciplinary research meeting in The Enterprise Centre was held in order to extend UEA’s relationship with Blickling Hall, building on a range of projects already underway with them and with other National Trust venues. Justine Mann gave a short presentation on Digital Technology: cataloguing, interpretation and engaging audiences. It is hoped that a broader formal partnership with the National Trust may be established, to underpin future research and innovation work. Harwell Restoration Training - Effective Emergency Planning and Disaster Recovery, 20 September Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire is an 18th Century manor house of splendid outlook and famous connections. A frequent haunt of UK Prime ministers with a stunning collection of art and heritage treasures it made the perfect setting for archivists to gather for training. Visitors to the archive are often surprised by our caution and protectiveness towards our collections, but it is less surprising when you see what could go wrong. Effective Emergency Planning and Practical Disaster Management is a fascinating and useful course on how to plan for and deal with every archivist’s nightmare. Harwell Restoration who ran the training have seen it all, flood, fire and civil unrest and gave us the tools we need to be ready, should disaster fall. New microfilm machine Our microfilm machine has been upgraded to a digital film scanner. Film can be scanned to a range of file formats including OCR PDF. Bookings can be made by email: [email protected]  FORTHCOMING EVENT – UNCOLLECTED: POETS Join us on 22 November 2023 at The Enterprise Centre (UEA) / livestream to celebrate the launch of our exciting new archive collections from four dazzling voices in contemporary poetry: Jay Bernard, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Gail McConnell and Joelle Taylor.   The poets will read from a new collection of their writing inspired by UEA's ‘Towards a Centre for Contemporary Poetry in the Archive’ project which has been funded by the Mellon Foundation's Public Knowledge programme. The project aims to change the way archives collect contemporary poetry by widening the representation of different styles and voices and encouraging community involvement. Visiting Poetry Fellow Will Harris will join the poets in conversation to discuss their response to the archiving of their work. Unique items from the poets' archives will be on display, alongside poetry by participants in the creative writing workshops they led for Norfolk public libraries during summer 2023. Registration essential: https://tinyurl.com/uncollectedpoets OPEN DAYS AND WELCOME EVENING UEA Open Days, 7 July and 9 September We were delighted to welcome 158 visitors across two UEA Open Days on 7 July and 9 September. Prospective students and their parents enjoyed visiting our Reading Rooms on Floor 02 of the Library to view our current exhibition and some tantalising gems from the archive. They were also able to explore a specially tailored display of our unique collections that showcases student engagement with the archive and highlights the varied opportunities they have, to engage with our collections and our activities during their time at UEA – from volunteering for our Unboxed programme to discovering original primary source material that links directly to their studies. Welcome Evening 'Getting to Know UEA', 20 September On 20 September we joined UEA Library and the East Anglian Film Archive to welcome new students as part of a mini evening festival in the LCR. We shared opportunities to explore our collections and volunteer via the Unboxed scheme. It was great to see new faces and welcome students to the community, while sharing what’s in store when they visit us on Floor 02. ARCHIVE LED TEACHING Diss High School visit, 4 July In July we were delighted to welcome a group of 11 A-Level year 12 students from Diss High School. They were embarking on their non-exam independent studies and wanted to see first-hand the manuscripts of Naomi Alderman. Getting to know the author, learning about how ‘The Power’ was written and finding out about what it’s like to study literature and creative writing at university made for an exciting afternoon on campus. Attendees:11. City of Norwich School visit, 18 July Year 12 A-Level students from CNS visited BACW to get inspired about literary archives. The group were introduced to the writing and personalities of Doris Lessing, Lee Child, Naomi Alderman and Sara Taylor through their archives. The students got to see what it takes to produce brilliant creative work and found out more about studying literature at UEA. Who says geography gets all the good field trips! Attendees: 24. MA Crime Writing, 7 September In September it was our privilege and pleasure to meet the final year crime writing MA students. As authors on the brink of publication themselves, examining the archive of Lee Child’s best selling Jack Reacher novels has particular meaning and significance. They were joined by Lee Child expert Elspeth Latimer who helped them navigate the brilliance and complexity of Child’s archive. Attendees: 9. PUBLICATIONS & BROADCASTS Lessing’s Early Letters: A Prolific Personal Voice by Nonia Williams. Critical Quarterly. Online, 9 July 2023. Originally presented at a special panel about Doris Lessing 100 at English Futures Conference 2022 (Manchester Met Uni). Lessing’s Early Letters: A Prolific Personal Voice - Williams - Critical Quarterly - Wiley Online Library Lessing’s Legacy Explored Through her Personal Archive by Justine Mann. Critical Quarterly, 23 Aug 2023. Based on the paper Mann delivered in Manchester 2022 at English Shared Futures, the article focuses on the Doris Lessing 100 exhibition and how the archive came to be provided in two tranches. Lessing's Legacy Explored Through Her Personal Archive - Mann - Critical Quarterly - Wiley Online Library ENQUIRIES - TOPICS AND THEMES  BACW COLLECTIONS DORIS LESSING comparison of female authors like Ruth Prawer Jhabvala NAOMI ALDERMAN ‘The Power’ WG SEBALD recorded interviews OTHER COLLECTIONS PRITCHARD PAPERS the 1930s Penguin donkey bookcase; design blueprints by Marcel Breuer; the work of photographer Edith Tudor-Hart; the 1930s Isobar restaurant and Half Hundred dining club; the development plan for flats in Birmingham by Water Gropius and Maxwell Fry (1936) TINKLER & WILLIAMS THEATRE COLLECTION seaside entertainment UEA COLLECTION rock band U2; Edward Cave (founder of The Gentleman’s Magazine) and his work for the Norwich Post; UEA Drama Studio ZUCKERMAN Scientific Manpower Committee and mid-fifties brain drain. STATISTICS - VISITS & ENQUIRIES Archives: 141 (48 remote): UEA 48; UK 77; Int’l 16 Special Collections: 10 ...

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Creative Writing

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You sit, for hours every day, pouring over your laptop screen, your keyboard struggling to keep up with the velocity of your fingers. It’s your second instalment of a seven-book series, and your fans are waiting eagerly. It’s three am. You’ve been writing for weeks.

Or perhaps you’re a poet.

After your lectures, you sit leisurely in a café, tea at the ready, articulating your weekly musings. The spine of the notebook groans, you’ve written so much, it can hold no more. The paper awaits your contemplations, your handwriting speeds up.

You could be a scriptwriter. A short-story enthusiast. You might be a writer of haikus, on bits of napkin, or letters to your granny in the highlands – or perhaps you’ve only ever written inside birthday cards. Even if you’ve only ever considered putting pen to paper, we’re asking you: do you want to write?

UEA’s Creative Writing Society is proud to exist in one of the UK’s most vibrant scenes for writing and literature. The city of Norwich is brimming with writers’ events: poetry open mics, famous authors, independent publishing houses, and we’re right in the heart of it!

Of course, we don’t just sit silently and scribble. Most of our writing workshops round off with a drink in the union bar or café, and we also collaborate with other societies, like Litsoc, Eggbox Publishing and Headucate.

But most we’re famous at UEA for our open mics, when three or four times a semester, we head out to a venue in town. Members bring friends and flatmates, grab a drink, and then get behind a mic to read, shout, sing, whisper, perform, pour water over their heads (yes, we had that once) by way of sharing their work! It’s always an amazing variation of talent, and an inspiration to see what you come up with.

If any of this has roused your interest, please get in touch with us! We're always more than happy to meet new members...

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MA Creative Writing Poetry

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Poetry Writing

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You’ve been writing poetry for so long that it’s become a vital part of your life. You may have tried one-off workshops or short courses but find that they are no longer enough. So now is the time to take it further!

This MA is your chance to immerse yourself in writing and reading, and discover more about your imaginative, artistic and intellectual capabilities as a poet. You’ll work intensively on your writing practice with expert guidance and support. And you’ll be part of a group that’s of a consistently high standard, which offers (and expects in return) rigorous feedback and discussion.

An academic context allows you to develop yourself through learning more about poetry across time and place, about form and technique, concept and theory, cause and effect. It’s a chance to read the kinds of poetry you’ve never come across before, and to discover the potential of poetry beyond the forms and approaches you already know.

In our MA Creative Writing (Poetry), we aim to support you in writing poetry of a publishable standard, and to create an encouraging but rigorous environment. You’ll join UEA’s renowned creative writing community in Norwich, a beautiful and historic UNESCO City of Literature.

During the one-year (or two-year part-time) course of intensive reading, writing, exploration and risk-taking, you’ll develop a body of work close in length to a first collection. Through your two Poetry Workshops, you’ll be encouraged to test, extend and refine your poetic technique – an experience that is often exciting and sometimes uncomfortable, but always rewarding. With this in mind, we also give you the chance to learn more about publishing procedures and opportunities, readings, literary awards and more. In the Describing Poetry module that accompanies the first Poetry Workshop, you will be introduced to some of the key thinking about poetry throughout literary history, and encouraged to explore creative-critical approaches to your work. You’ll also choose an optional module from a wide range of creative and critical modules across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. You’ll benefit from the ways in which the study of poetry enhances analytical, conceptual and verbal skills, as well as refine your powers of precision, argument and logic.

Within UEA’s world-famous writing community, you’ll have the opportunity to meet some of the UK’s leading poets and poetry editors, and to benefit from their insight and expertise. Our annual anthology is professionally published and distributed to a key list of poetry houses and other contacts.

UEA also hosts an annual Poetry Festival, part of which is an event showcasing the MA poets’ work. You’ll have the opportunity to attend a masterclass and to discuss your writing one-to-one with the Poetry Festival Fellow. UEA is also part of a thriving network of regional poetry activity, which offers plenty of opportunities to gain performance experience and to get involved in publication.

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For this course (per year)

International fees Course fees for EU and international students

Bachelors (Hons) degree - 2.1 or equivalent preferred in any subject. Candidates will be expected to submit a portfolio of writing for assessment - up to 20 pages of poetry.

The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a world-renowned university known for its high standard across both taught and research postgraduate courses. Based in Norwich, in the county of Norfolk, the university has an excellent international reputation for the high standard of its research output. UEA is home to over 17,000 students, of which around 25% are postgraduate students. UEA is part of one of the biggest research communities in Europe... more

MA Creative Writing Prose Fiction

Full time | 1 year | 23-SEP-24

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Full time | 3 years | 01-OCT-24

MA Creative Writing (Non-Fiction)

Mres postgraduate research in creative writing.

Full time | 1 year | 01-OCT-24

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• The time in Elektrostal is 8 hours ahead of the time in New York when New York is on standard time, and 7 hours ahead of the time in New York when New York is on daylight saving time.
• Elektrostal does not change between summer time and winter time.
• The IANA time zone identifier for Elektrostal is Europe/Moscow.

Time difference from Elektrostal

Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for elektrostal.

• Sunrise: 03:42AM
• Sunset: 09:08PM
• Day length: 17h 26m
• Solar noon: 12:25PM
• The current local time in Elektrostal is 25 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.

Elektrostal on the map

• Location: Moscow Oblast, Russia
• Latitude: 55.79. Longitude: 38.46
• Population: 144,000

Best restaurants in Elektrostal

• #1 Tolsty medved - Steakhouses food
• #2 Ermitazh - European and japanese food
• #3 Pechka - European and french food

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