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If you are a budding poet, novelist, dramatist, or creator of creative non-fiction, interested in honing your craft and discussing the writing life, consider including the following courses in your degree program. 

• ENGL-1851H The Writing Life: An Introduction to Creative Writing No pre-requisite  
• ENGL-2851H Introductory Prose Writing Workshop Pre-requisite: 4.0 university credits including ENGL 1851H or permission of the department. Excludes ENGL-2859H.  
• ENGL-2853H Introductory Poetry Writing Workshop Pre-requisite: 4.0 university credits including ENGL 1851H or permission of the department. Excludes ENGL-2859H  
• ENGL-2855H Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop  Pre-requisite: 0.5 credit in ENGL. ENGL-1851H is strongly recommended. Offered only at Trent University Durham – GTA.   
• ENGL-2859H Introductory Creative Writing Workshop  Pre-requisite: 0.5 ENGL credit. ENGL 1851H is strongly recommended. Offered only at Trent University Durham – GTA. Excludes ENGL 2851H, 2853H.   
• ENGL-3850Y/3851H Intermediate Fiction Writing Workshop Pre-requisite: ENGL 2851H or 2959H (or permission of the instructor, with portfolio submission). Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including ENGL 2851H or 2859H (or permission of the instructor, with portfolio submission). Students may take only one of ENGL 3850Y or 3851H for credit.    
• ENGL-3853H Intermediate Poetry Writing Workshop   Pre-requisite: ENGL 2853H or 2959H (or permission of the instructor, with portfolio submission).  

ENGL-3855H Creative Non-Fiction Workshop Prerequisite: ENGL 2855H or 6.0 university credits including one of ENGL 2851H, 2853H, or 2859H, or permission of the instructor.

ENGL-4850Y/4851H Advanced Seminar in Creative Writing Pre-requisite: 4.0 ENGL credits including 1.0 credit from ENGL 2851H, 2853H, 2855H, 2859H, 3850Y/3851H, 3853H, or 3855H; or permission of the instructor. Students may take only one of ENGL 4850Y or 4851H for credit.

ENGL-4859H Publishing Workshop 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. Have a look at the “Literature Through Time” plan of study; seek your influences!  

Option in Creative Writing 

All of the English Department’s creative writing courses are also part of the Option in Creative Writing, which is designed for students who have an interest in exploring and developing creative practice as a complement to their current disciplinary studies. The Option is designed for incremental development, aiming to give students an opportunity to study the theory and craft of writing and to apply what they learn in writing activities, assignments and workshops. Over the course of study, students will expand their writing repertoire, build writing communities, learn techniques for revising, and develop methods for generating ideas while building portfolios in prose fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and script-writing.

Students who have fulfilled the requirements for an Honours or a General degree in any subject may graduate with an Option in Creative Writing if they have successfully completed the 4.0 credits from the following courses, including courses from at least two different departments:

ENGL 1851H The Writing Life

CAST-INDG-WMST 2485H Indigenous Women's Creative Non-Fiction

CUST 2526H Narrative and Performance Workshop

CUST 2572H Performance and Protest Workshop

ENGL 2851H Introductory Prose Writing Workshop (Peterborough only)

ENGL 2853H Introductory Poetry Writing Workshop (Peterborough only)

ENGL 2855H Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop (Durham only)

ENGL 2859H Introductory Creative Writing Workshop (Durham only)

INDG 2480Y Indigenous Literature and Creative Writing

CUST 3139H Radio and Podcast Workshop

CUST 3175Y Theatre Workshop: Staging Ideas

ENGL 3850Y/3851H Intermediate Fiction Workshop

ENGL-3853H Intermediate Poetry Writing Workshop

ENGL 3855H Creative Non-Fiction Workshop 

CUST 4173H: Workshop in Adaptation and Performance

ENGL 4850Y/4851H Advanced Creative Writing Seminar

ENGL-4859H Publishing Workshop

FREN 4201H: Création littéraire/ Creative Writing 

INDG 4481H: Advanced Indigenous Literature and Creative Writing

With permission of the coordinator:

CUST 4041Y/4541H Internship in Media and Cultural Studies

CUST 4070Y Advanced Studies in Theatre and the Performing Arts

CUST 4900Y/4901H/4902H Reading Course

ENGL 4040Y/4041H Practicum

ENGL 4900Y/4901H/4902H Reading Course

INDG 4900Y/4901H/4902H Reading Course  

Journalism and Creative Writing

If you think you might be interested in applying your writing skills to a career in journalism, consider developing career-based skills in journalism, social media and content creation with the new integrated degree/diploma program from Trent University Durham GTA and Durham College.

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Creative Writing - Beginners

Course Code: COMM076

Beginner writers and those with previous writing experience will hone their skills, benefit from a series of exercises and get involved in creative writing and critical reading. Workshop your own exercises and stories and receive valuable critique from fellow participants and the instructor.

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Welcome to the Department of English Studies, a vibrant hub for lovers of literature and creative writing. Our carefully designed courses, BA (Hons) English Literature and BA (Hons) English Literature with Creative Writing, foster a deep appreciation for the literary world and offer a platform for those aspiring to write creatively with both designed to kindle your love for literature and empower your creativity.

Our English Literature degree enhances your understanding of literary criticism, broadens your knowledge of various literary movements, and encourages you to become a free-thinking critic. The Creative Writing pathway develops your imaginative writing skills and introduces you to arts management and publishing with the opportunity to create and launch your own anthology.

Additionally, both pathways provide opportunities to explore topics of your choice in a final-year dissertation project, from classic literary analysis to contemporary themes to a body of original creative writing.

Our department runs an annual Literary Festival featuring esteemed authors and poets and offers an opportunity to engage with the city of Peterborough's vibrant literary scene. We also work with the creative writing magazine Mono and offer students the opportunity to gain publishing experience with the editorial team.

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The Malcolm Bradbury Scholarship Bursary of £7500 is available to students from underrepresented and/or socio-economic backgrounds. The bursary will support living costs that allow students time to develop and promote literacy activities.

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Creative Writing Workshop

Join us for a one-off creative writing workshop and discover the incredible Cathedral library!

New! Creative Writing Workshop

Creative writing at the cathedral explores different forms of writing to kick-start your work, by formulating new ideas and developing them in fresh and dynamic ways..

Over the four hours we will be examining and experimenting with different forms of writing, trying fun exercises to get us writing, looking at craft tips and talking through our ideas.

Whether you want to write poems, short stories or scripts, our creative writing for beginners classes are the best way to help you find the form that best suits your individual voice - through practical exercises that boost your confidence and unlock your creative potential in a safe and supportive environment. You’ll work practically to produce short pieces of content and develop a critical awareness of others’ writing styles.

• Short exercises to inspire ideas
• Different genres of creative writing; drama, poetry, short stories etc.
• Plot, structure, creating characters and narrative

This one-off creative writing course is designed to encourage, inspire and stimulate critical thinking.

You will be encouraged to share your work in class and learn from one another. You will also receive friendly feedback. 

There will also be biscuits. Really nice ones. Plus we'll take you through the secret door at the West Front up to the magnificent Cathedral library which is not open to the public...

About the tutor:

Andrew McDonnell is a published writer of poetry and short fiction. He is the course leader for a BA Hons in English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough and recently completed a Phd in Creative and Critical Writing. His short stories and poetry have been published in a wide range of anthologies and journals. His poetry collection, 'The Somnambulist Cookbook' was published by Salt in June 2019.  

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Creative Writing with Tim Wilson. Unleash your inner writer or hone your writing skills with these informative and stimulating workshops. We will cover fiction, poetry, non-fiction and more. Tim Wilson is a professional author with 30 titles published, and has taught Creative Writing at City College Peterborough and other venues for 20 years.

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Summer 2024 ICC Course--Intro to Poetry

Take intro to poetry this summer.

The Department of Literatures in English will offer an online section of ENGL 11300 Introduction to Poetry this upcoming summer. The course can count within the ICC "Themes and Perspectives" category as either a Humanities course or as a Creative Arts course. It is also themed both within "Identities" and "Inquiry, Imagination, and Innovation." The course instructor is Dan Breen. The course will convey four credits, and run as a mixture of synchronous and asynchronous class meetings. The goal of the class is to explore the ways in which lyric poetry produces its effects, how it works, and what capacities it might possess as measured against other forms of writing (such as narrative). We will also concentrate on developing fluency in poetic language. Poetry possesses a remarkable capacity to compress patterns of thought and intensify emotions in order to articulate experiences that other forms of writing struggle to express. This peculiar expressiveness of poetry results in part from the different and often complex registers of language within which poems construct comparisons, work out problems, and think through questions. Please contact Dan Breen via email ( [email protected] ) with any further questions about the course or feel free to drop in during his spring 2024 office hours: Tues. 1-2pm and Weds. 12-2 in 302 Muller.