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English and Creative Writing MA (Hons) University of Dundee

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Course description.

On this course you can study the history of English literature from the medieval period right up to the present day, and combine this with studies in creative writing.

A range of modules give you the option to study anything from Shakespeare to science fiction, Romantic to contemporary poetry, or Victorian novels to Hollywood films.

Our creative writing modules help you explore and extend your own potential as a writer and engage you in a range of literary activities. Our students write novels, stories, poetry, monologues, as well as exploring creativity in non-fiction, essays, journalism, reviewing, and writing for the theatre.

For English literature we start by covering topics such as how to analyse a poem and how to read a novel as a literary critic, introducing you to key skills in critical-creative ways of reading and writing.

We then move on to historical surveys of literature, before exploring in more detail many of the periods, movements, and topics previously covered.

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Tuition fees shown for Rest of UK and Scot/EU students are for 2022/23. The fees for 2023/24 have not yet been confirmed and we expect confirmation of these in March 2023.

International tuition fees shown are confirmed for 2023/24 entry. These will increase by no more than 5% per year for the length of your course.

Average student cost of living in the UK

London costs approx 34% more than average, mainly due to rent being 67% higher than average of other cities. For students staying in student halls, costs of water, gas, electricity, wifi are generally included in the rental. Students in smaller cities where accommodation is in walking/biking distance transport costs tend to be significantly smaller.

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Application deadline:.

January 1, 2025

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

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The University of Dundee is a publicly funded institution in the small and diverse city of Dundee, Scotland. Particularly well known for their research work in the fields of Health and Climate Change, student researchers here feel that they can make a difference at home and abroad. Students discover a friendly, safe, and welcoming city in Dundee, where inhabitants are able to get to most of their commitments either by bike or even on foot.

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Starting Creative Writing module (EN11007)

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This module provides an introduction to a number of key texts and workshop exercises, and demonstrates through class teaching how to respond to these – critically and creatively. Weekly seminars will be based on extracts or full texts of novels, short stories, creative (non-fiction) essays, performance and poems. An excellent introductory text is Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times, edited by Neil Astley. This course is open to anyone who has a good reading habit and an openness to reading work which challenges them.

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The teaching is carried out in workshops and seminars that allow for a good deal of personal interaction and group discussion where every member of the class participates, in creating both critical and imaginative responses.

Academic support for these classes is provided via leaflets and brochures, reading materials and lists, vle and guided self-study.

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English and Creative Writing

Combine the study of English literature with our distinctive creative writing course

MA (Hons) English and Creative Writing

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Degree Overview

On this course you can study the history of English literature from the medieval period right up to the present day, and combine this with studies in creative writing.

A range of modules give you the option to study anything from Shakespeare to science fiction, Romantic to contemporary poetry, or Victorian novels to Hollywood films.

Our creative writing modules help you explore and extend your own potential as a writer and engage you in a range of literary activities. Our students write novels, stories, poetry, monologues, as well as exploring creativity in non-fiction, essays, journalism, reviewing, and writing for the theatre.

For English literature we start by covering topics such as how to analyse a poem and how to read a novel as a literary critic, introducing you to key skills in critical-creative ways of reading and writing.

We then move on to historical surveys of literature, before exploring in more detail many of the periods, movements, and topics previously covered.

• This course will be taught by the faculty of the Dundee School of Humanities

Why Study this Degree

English and creative writing are adaptable subjects which open up a flexible range of career options. A wide-ranging knowledge of the arts, literature, and culture produces well-rounded individuals with a broad frame of reference.

Many of our graduates enter roles in: teaching publishing journalism book festivals arts administration library and information services writer-in-residence positions management consultancy the civil service the creative industries

Some of our creative writing graduates also go on to publish novels, short stories and poetry with a range of publishing houses and magazines.

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International stage one.

The IS1 is the first year of a four year International Incorporated Bachelors. And its designed to strengthen your English language abilities and introduce core concepts and knowledge required at university study level.  Once you have successfully completed your studies you will continue the remaining stages of your degree directly with the University of your choice.

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We're a group of writers who met at Dundee University. We kept in touch to continue the support we found on the course. Now, we want to make that sense of creative community available to others. 

Hannah Whaley

Hannah Whaley is a Scottish writer, essayist and award-winning children’s author. In her creative writing, the uncanny intersects with thematic interests of domesticity, trauma, motherhood and society. Her work has featured in print and online literary magazines, anthologies, and public exhibition in Scotland. Hannah was also Managing Editor for These Windows: a collection of writing and art created in collaboration with the V&A Museum Dundee published in 2021. She works in academic library management, is General Editor for Dundee University Review of the Arts and holds an MBA from Durham University and an MLitt in Writing Practice and Study from Dundee University, both with Distinction.

Wanda McGregor

Wanda McGregor is a writer and poet with a natural ability to write in the vernacular which celebrates the dynamism and character of her Scottish working-class background. In 2020 she completed the MLitt Writing Practice and Study at the University of Dundee, graduating with distinction. She has since been published online and in anthologies and is currently working on various projects. Wanda believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to express themselves creatively and to have their story heard. A trustee of Meigle and Ardler Community Development Trust, where she lives, Wanda is leading a subcommittee focused on developing access to the arts, literature and music.

Collette Cowie

Collette Cowie is a writer and artist currently studying Contemporary Art Practice at Grey’s School of Art Aberdeen. She’s a mental health worker for NHS Scotland and a recent graduate of Dundee University MLitt Writing Study and Practice at Dundee University. Collette believes in the transformative power of the arts and runs creative workshops aimed at convincing the unconvinced that they are an artist too. 

Victoria Lothian

Victoria Lothian is a published writer of fiction, memoir and poetry, and holds an MA (Hons) degree in English Literature and a recently completed Master’s Degree in Writing Practice and Study, with Distinction. She lives in Dundee with her family and is currently working on her first novel, exploring the impact of poverty on expression. As a mother of Dyslexic children, Victoria is passionate about providing creative outlets for those who live in disadvantage. The lack of creative opportunities within today’s educational framework has ignited Victoria’s commitment to establish safe, joyful and nurturing spaces for both children and adults to explore and embrace creativity through words.

Ellie Julings

Ellie is a writer, editor and community development worker from Leeds. She holds a MLitt Writing Practice and Study from the University of Dundee and is a contributing editor for Dundee University Review of the Arts (DURA). Ellie was a Book Week Scotland emerging programmer in 2021 with a workshop titled 'Queer the Record' and is the editor of Meeting Spaces: a Gathering to Celebrate 85 Years of the Saltire Society , a collection of creative responses to items in the Saltire Society archives. 

The University of Dundee has just appointed the poet Colette Bryce to the position of Fellow in Creative Writing.

The position is an important and well-known one in British poetry circles. It dates from the early 1970s and is funded equally by the University of Dundee and the Scottish Arts Council. It is normally held either by a poet or by a writer of prose fiction. Colette takes over the post from Dundee poet Tracey Herd, who, in becoming a past Dundee creative writing fellow, joins Anne Stevenson, Sam Selvon, Val Warner, James Rankin, Carl MacDougall, Douglas Dunn, Sean O'Brien, Kathleen Jamie, Don Patterson and John Burnside.

The duties of the post include being available to help any members of the university or local community with any aspect of their writing or publishing, and stimulating an interest in creative writing by means of public readings, writers' groups, book events and other activities. The post is also intended to provide the writer with a modest income, allowing a period of stability in which progress can be made with his or her own work.

David Robb, outgoing head of the Department of English, says, 'I am eager to have Colette in the Department and I am sure that she will prove an excellent holder of the post. She is an exciting young poet with a fine career opening up in front of her, exactly the sort of Fellow who has done such good work for us in the past. She is eager to come to Dundee and to take advantage of the opportunities the post offers her. I hope that this will be the beginning of a strong and lasting relationship between Colette Bryce and the City of Dundee."

"I'm very much looking forward to working at the University of Dundee. I'm very fortunate to be taking up this post that has been held in the past by some of the finest contemporary writers. The fellowship presents a great opportunity to get involved in the life of the university and to work closely with students and writers from the wider community in Dundee. I'm also looking forward to getting to know the city and its lively Arts scene. I'm sure the year ahead will be an interesting and creative one for me."

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2024 MFA in Creative Writing Final Thesis Reading

Time: Sat Apr 20, 2024, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Philbin Studio Theatre (View on map )

Join us in celebrating the work of our graduating second-year MFA students! Readers will include Gussie Beaver, Rose Darline Darbouze, Tim Fab-Eme, Alaina Johansson, Chibuike Ogbonnaya, Jamjun Rorsoongnern, and Taylor Thomas.

This is a free, but ticketed, event. 

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Gussie Beaver received her B.A. in English from Duquesne University in 2022, Summa Cum Laude. She was the 2021 recipient of the O’Donnell Undergraduate Research Award and the Carroll Creative Writing Scholarship. This enabled her to attend the Elk Rivers Writer’s workshop in Livingston, Montana. She was a Duquesne University Writing Center consultant. Gussie was featured in Duquesne’s alumni magazine Much Ado and was the treasurer of the Duquesne Poet’s Society. Her work has been published multiple times in the literary magazine Lexicon. She is interested in the personification of animals and objects and experimenting with formation. Her favorite poets are Emily Dickinson and e. e. cummings.

Rose Darline Darbouze   is from Béraud, Haiti. She is an MFA candidate in creative writing and is a recipient of a grant from the Graduate School Professional Development Awards at the University of Notre Dame. She was the 2022-2023 Sparks Editorial Fellow at Notre Dame Review , and her work is forthcoming in the Birmingham Poetry Review .

Tim Fab-Eme is an engineer and poet who experiments with poetic forms on environmental and social justice themes. He’s the Issue 7 poetry editor of Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice , and Cove Park’s 2022 funded writer-in-residence on climate action. Tim loves exploring nature, gardening, and fishing in the mangrove swamps of his island home, Egun-Okom (Ogonokom). His work has appeared in The Malahat Review , The Fiddlehead , Magma , New Welsh Reader , About Place Journal , Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice , Channel: Ireland’s Environmental Literary Journal ; apt , Planet in Crisis Anthology , Deep Wild Journal: Writing from the Backcountry , Land and Territory Anthology , Delmarva Review , FIYAH , and The Future of Black: An Afrofuturism & Black Comics Poetry Anthology , Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review , FU Review , The Maine Review , etc. His other projects center on the lore, myth, and experiences of marginalized folks and communities.

Alaina Johansson  lives in Indiana with dogs, Brigit and Søren. Previous work is published in Early American Literature , Psaltery & Lyre , and 3:AM Magazine . An MFA student studying Poetry at the University of Notre Dame, Johansson works as an editorial assistant at Action Books.

Chibuike Ogbonnaya writes stories that explore humanity, gender and sexuality. They obtained combined honors in English and Literary Studies and History and International Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Their unpublished collection of thematically linked short stories featuring women, feminine gay men, and gender queer was a finalist for the Iron Horse Literary Review First Book Prize. Chibuike is an alumni of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Workshop. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Green Mountains Review, The Forge Literary Magazine , Taint Taint Taint Magazine , Stellium , Akuko Magazine , Black Femme Co , and elsewhere.

Jamjun Rorsoongnern is a ลูกครึ่ง (Thai american) writer gripped by the musings of nondiscursive knowledge building. At times, their writing dons normative white religious aesthetics in a subversive exploration/queering of sensuality & disidentification. Admittedly a theory nerd, she finds herself fangirling over Barthes, Vuong, Muñoz, Baldwin, & Derrida. Jam writes towards literary/linguistic openings in hopes of creating liminal utopias/liberation/depths with their reading/cultivated communities.

Taylor Thomas (she/her) is a biracial emerging writer from Indiana. Her work has been published in Bayou Magazine , Salt Hill Journal , The Journal , So to Speak Journal , and many more. She was the runner-up for the 2024 Nicholas Sparks Prize Fellowship. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She lives in South Bend, Indiana with her husband, Herschel, and her dogs, Bella & Buster. Website: taylornoellethomas.com

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DUL Creative Writing Awards

Are you an undergraduate who enjoys creative writing?  You could win an award for your talents!

The Rudolph William Rosati Creative Writing Award

The Rosati Creative Writing Prize is awarded each spring in recognition of an outstanding work of creative writing.  All Duke first year or sophomore students are eligible to submit work for consideration.  Projects may be any genre and take any form (audio/video, digital media, etc.), but must include a substantial creative writing component .

Deadline:  June 15 th , 2024

Prize:  $1500

For more details: https://library.duke.edu/research/awards/rosati

The William Styron Creative Writing Award

  The Styron Creative Writing Prize is awarded each spring in recognition of an outstanding work of creative writing. All Duke juniors and seniors (graduating spring 2023) are eligible to submit work for consideration. Projects may be any genre and take any form (audio/video, digital media, etc.), but must include a substantial creative writing component.

For more details: https://library.duke.edu/research/awards/styron

Eligibility for both awards:

• You must be a Duke undergraduate student
• You may submit multiple, different projects in a given year but each project should be submitted individually with an accompanying application cover sheet
• Submitted projects must have been written during the current academic year
• Projects are judged based on quality and originality of writing
• At this time submissions must be written in English
• No minimum or maximum length required

Contact Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Librarian for Literature, at [email protected] , if you have questions.

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