Writing & Literature The BA in Writing + Literature emphasises practice leading to lives and careers in writing, acknowledging that everyone does not start from the same place. Voices are individual. Different writers move forward at different paces, imaginations fire as they will. The tutors on the course will equip students with the tools that they need to write, the ability to self-edit, to understand the power of the image, to develop voice, but see their real job as clearing the imaginative space in front of students, to create the room where their own work as a writer can thrive.
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The art of the tutor in this field is to know when to guide and encourage and when to stand back and allow writers to engage in their own practice. Writing is presented and practiced on the course in a broad, cross-disciplinary context. Students have the opportunity to tell stories on the page, in digital formats, as audio pieces, screenplays and as live performances. Critical abilities are honed, whether it’s reading a poem, novel or screenplay. Always students are asked to move beyond the knee-jerk like/don’t like response. They are encouraged to articulate exactly what it is that makes or doesn’t make a piece of writing sing, to flex their critical muscles and take a position. Writing is a solitary individual endeavour but that doesn’t mean you don’t engage with the world. Writing + Literature students have travelled to
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