CONTEMPORARY STORYTELLING

Description

This module allows you to explore various modes of storytelling in a contemporary context, with a view to developing your narrative skills. The course will engage with contemporary fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film, and theatre and will help you to to investigate and understand the multiple ways readers and writers engage with storytelling and narrative. There will be lectures on each topic, with workshop-style seminars that are designed to help you engage with and analyse your own writing and the writing of others, with the aim of helping students to hone your ability to edit and create. The following areas are indicative of topics to be covered: * Narrative Poetry and The Long Poem * Documentary Storytelling * Multi-narrative and polyvocal writing * Diversity in writing characters and themes * Speculative fiction: weird fiction and horror * Structuring your work: endings and a sense of closure The module aims to: help you explore the relationship between critical analysis and creative practice in a variety of contexts encourage you to reflect on the demands of narrative structure develop your confidence and experience in producing effective creative writing heighten your awareness of the stylistic and technical considerations involved in writing creatively enhance your ability to examine your own work critically and have a better understanding of the processes of editing and revision ¿ and to help you build emotional and creative resilience by practising responding to feedback creatively and productively assist you to develop the ability to formulate your creative aims more clearly and effectively introduce you to the work of a culturally diverse range of contemporary practitioners who work in a variety of narrative and storytelling media further build your editing and workshopping skills Attributes Developed 001 By the end of the module students will: have gained experience drawing upon your own creative practice to inform your critical thinking, and vice versa CPT 002 Be able to write competently and confidently for a variety of different modes and media ¿ this flexibility being a vital professional skill for writers and others PT 003 Be able to demonstrate further developed workshopping and editing skills - giving and receiving productive feedback being a vital professional skills in almost all professional fields CPT 004 Be able to demonstrate further developed awareness of your creative process ¿ a vital requirement for anyone aspiring to write professionally, as well as being vital to developing emotional and creative resilience and resourcefulness KPT 005 Be able to demonstrate familiarity with some of the key ideas and concerns in narrative KCPT 006 To demonstrate an awareness of contemporary writing from a wide range of global and cultural contexts KCT