- Hello, I'm Dr. Ed Hurst,
programme director for on-campus Creative Writing
at the University of Hull, and a fantasy novelist,
and I'm delighted to be here today to talk to you
about the MA in Creative Writing and English.
Whether you're a third-year student finishing your studies
and looking for that next creative challenge,
or whether you've been out of education for a little while
and you're looking for a way to tell the stories
that you know need to be told,
then this is the course for you.
Central to our MA programme is
that this is a very practical course.
Writers write, after all, and in all of your modules,
you'll be given practical, applicable, creative advice
to hone your practise,
and plenty of contemporary exercises
to really show what it is that you can do
with the written word.
Workshops are central to our practise,
so every week, you'll be bringing in new pieces of work
that you've written, sharing those with your colleagues,
and getting really intense and really valuable, supportive,
constructive feedback that helps you to develop your writing
and take it to that next level.
In terms of the modules you'll study with us,
you'll start with Reading Like a Writer,
a very practical module which helps
to unpick the building blocks of what makes up fiction,
alongside Research, Creativity and Engagement,
which really brings you into that postgraduate mode of study
and gives you the opportunity to present your work
at a postgraduate conference.
In trimester two, you have an option
to choose from our entire suite of Creative Writing
and English Literature modules.
You might choose Writing Prose Fiction, which explores prose
from all the way from micro fiction to the long form novel,
you might look at Writing Creative Nonfiction,
which explores things like travel writing, memoir,
and writing from incarceration,
or you might look into our Writing Science Fiction
and Fantasy module, a module where we'll teach you how
to create magic on the page,
how to come up with ideas that AI can't even dream of,
and how to create and conjure worlds
that no one's ever heard of before.
At the end of all of this, you have the opportunity
for a creative writing dissertation,
a piece of work that is uniquely yours,
written in the style and format that you want.
Central to everything we do
in Creative Writing is our student community,
and from day one, you'll be joined in straight away
with going to book launches, to author interviews,
to publishing magazines, to producing podcasts,
to hosting our creative open mic nights
to celebrate the work that you and your colleagues do.
As your tutors, we are all practitioners,
we are writers like you, and scholars in the field,
and we are here not just to teach, but also to support you,
because here at Hull, we're not interested
in telling you what it is
that you're supposed to be writing.
What we're much more interested in is getting to know you
and figuring out what it is that you really want to say,
and then giving you all of the tools that you need
to hone your unique writer's voice
and tell the stories that you know need to be told.