For students

Guides

We have produced a couple of concise (single page) guides for students of creative writing.

For our guide to resources and links, please click here: resources for students.

For our guide to information on programs (courses), please click here: information on courses.

On this website we publish occasional news items about courses. To find these, please click on the ‘courses’ tag on the home page.

Publications

Our first publication is Creative Writing: Writers on Writing, edited by Amal Chatterjee. The book anthologises original literary work by eight contemporary authors – Amal Chatterjee, Colm Breathnach, Fred D’Aguiar, Jane Draycott, Philip Gross, Kathryn Heyman, Sabyn Javeri-Jillani, and Emily Raboteau. Dealing with birth and death, love and ambition, domestic drama and foreign adventure, they take the reader to the country (Ireland, Guyana, England) and to the city (Delhi, Karachi, New York and Prague).

The pieces are accompanied by reflective essays in which the authors explore the creative process behind the writing. For readers, the essays provide insights into the works themselves; for writers, they provide insights into literary craft; and for students on creative writing courses, they provide diverse models of how to discuss one’s own writing. For further information, please click here: 11 Jan 13 Creative Writing NBI.

Studying Creative Writing, edited by Sharon Norris, will provide a practical guide for students of creative writing in higher education. Chapters will cover: the skills required on creative writing courses; reading other writers’ work; making the best use of learning opportunities, especially workshops and online learning; how to present your work; writing skills, especially pre-writing and rewriting; assessment, including reflective or critical commetaries; and what happens next – moving on from a creative writing course and employing one’s writing and transferable skills.For information on this  publication, please click here: SN NBI 002.