Post-Graduate Certificate [Medical and Clinical Education] From University of Essex

The Creative Writing course is offered by the University of Essex.

At Essex we offer an unusual approach to the practice of writing, combing innovative and traditional methods in order to develop your writing skills and abilities to judge your work critically, while expanding your knowledge across different modes and genres. In the Centre for Creative Writing we encourage a culture of experiment and creativity, enabling you to feel part of a community of writers.

Uncover the history and theories of writing practices through studying familiar as well as unfamiliar writings from OvidÕs Metamorphoses to Wordsworth, and Kate Tempest, as well as writers taking alternative approaches to text production, from contemporary revisionings of fairytales, to new nature writing, science fiction, and the experimental language play of the French Oulipo group.

Your future

Many of our students have gone on to successfully publish their work, notable recent alumni including:

• Ida L¿kŒs, who won a literary prize in Norway for The Beauty That Flows Past, securing a book deal
• Alexia Casale, whose novel Bone Dragon was published by Faber & Faber and subsequently featured on both the Young Adult Books of the Year 2013 list for The Financial Times, and The IndependentÕs Books of the year 2013: Children
• Elaine Ewert, recent graduate from our MA Wild Writing, placed second in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2015
• Patricia Borlenghi, the founder of Patrician Press, which has published works by a number of our alumni
• Petra Mcqueen, who has written for The Guardian and runs creative writing courses