LSH Magazine Issue 4 (PDF) - University of Lincoln

MACreative WritingThe MA in Creative Writing is a taught postgraduate programmefor students who are already experienced in writing and isspecifically designed to link theory to practice at several levels.Not only will students have theopportunity to practice differentgenres of creative writing as theycompile a portfolio of their own work,they will also be required to producea pamphlet which will be electronicallypublished with copyright and ISBN.Complementing these creative units,students will study two ‘English Now’modules which will focus on fiction,life writing, drama and poetry writtenin the UK and Ireland since 2000.Assessments here are designed tohone students’ skills at editing,creating character and dialogue,constructing perspective andwriting within genre.The final piece of assessment will be a20000 word piece(s) of creative writing.This will take the form of a dissertationand will provide students with theopportunity to work on an extensivepiece(s) of writing open to the choiceof the student. Unlike the portfolio,students will be expected here towork within one genre of writing.TRIP TONewsteadAbbey16Staff profile:Phil Redpath is an academic as well as acreative writer. He is currently completing histhird novel and has recently published his firstcollection of poetry.His academic interests inform hiscreative practices which are largelyinvolved with teaching and researchinginto twentieth and twenty-first centuryliterature. Phil teaches creativewriting at level two and three on theundergraduate English degree, and alsoteaches postgraduate creative writing onthe MA and is supervising several PhDsin creative writing. He set up creativewriting at undergraduate level eighteenyears ago and has been involved in allthe developments in creative writing atthe University since. Phil remains activelyengaged in academic research andhis work is currently being publishedin Britain, Europe and America.In May a group of English studentsand staff visited Newstead Abbey,former home of the Romantic poetLord Byron, on a trip funded bythe School of Humanities.The group toured the historic Abbey and explored its Gothicarchitecture and beautiful gardens as part of a third-yearmodule on Romantic and Gothic literature. We were able toview a collection of materials relating to Byron’s life and writing,which informed our discussion of poems such as ‘Darkness’and ‘Don Juan’ studied as part of the module, and the dayended with a literary quiz. It was an enjoyable and informativetrip and a great way for third-year students to mark the finalterm of the degree. We’ll be off to Newstead again next spring.Dr Phil RedpathProgramme LeaderMA Creative Writing 17