Course: Introduction to Teaching Creative Writing

Considerations for Freelance Writers This course has looked primarily at why and how to lead creative writing workshops in a variety of settings. If you are a freelance practitioner working …

One of the really important elements of teaching Creative Writing is the ownership that participants should feel over their own narratives, their own words and their own lives. Many of …

Interrogating the role of the workshop (not just a neutral concept) The Creative Writing Workshop can be imagined as a relatively straightforward forum, where participants share and develop their literary …

We asked award-winning author Alex Wheatle whether he thought Creative Writing could be taught.

When we ask ‘whether’ Creative Writing can be taught, we also need to pay attention to who has answered this question in the past; who has set the frameworks for …

We want to introduce you to the team, both here at Manchester Metropolitan University, and beyond, who you’ll be seeing over the coming weeks! Andrew McMillan, Professor of Contemporary Writing …

If you have any queries about Creative Writing courses, events and competitions offered by Manchester Metropolitan University, visit our new Manchester Writing School website, connect with our social media channels …

We’ve come to the end of our course, but it’s just the beginning for the ways you might be teaching Creative Writing, and the places it will take you. Take …

Using the ideas discussed, as well as everything you’ve learned throughout the three weeks, you could now begin to come up with your own Creative Writing exercise. If often helps …

Hear Becky Swain discuss whether, in certain settings, it is process and not product which is actually important – the writing itself, rather than what is being written, being the …

Hear Malika Booker discuss the elements that she thinks make up a good workshop exercise.

Welcome to our third and final week! We’ve looked at the foundational ideas around teaching Creative Writing, whether it can be done (it can!) and some of the places where …

So now that we’ve looked at different places that Creative Writing can be taught outside of the university setting, next week we’ll be wrestling with the fundamentals of the workshop, …

Take a look here at a teaching resource created around Alex Wheatle’s body of work. Again, think about what seems exciting and interesting about the resource, as well as thinking …

Having heard Chloe discuss the Boy Everywhere project, take a look at these resources which came out of the work she did; paying particularly attention to their design and layout, …