This English and Creative Writing and Drama and Creative Writing module introduces students to the theory and practice of creative writing at the intersections with performance, drama and visual cultures. From playwriting to Poets Theatre, from New Narrative writing to poetry as performance, from live art to creative ways of staging criticality, the traditions and practices taught on the module will enable students to develop their own creative writing and critical understanding in relation to contemporary developments in professional publishing and performance contexts where traditional disciplinary distinctions are increasingly being displaced and eroded.
1. Students will consider highly contemporary, innovative forms of creative writing that work across disciplinary boundaries.
2. The module foregrounds decolonial, queer + trans, and anti-racist traditions of creative writing.
3. Students will be encouraged to explore writing at the intersections with performance and the visual arts, and consider how - in a sense - writing itself might be performative.
