探索创造和建立新世界，与他人分享语言和故事的冲动。在我们的课程中，您将通过多种类型的方法来研究写作技巧，贯穿并贯穿从小说和诗歌到非小说，心理地理，表演写作等领域的各种作品。在Essex，我们提供了一种不寻常的写作实践方法，结合了创新和传统方法，以发展您的写作技巧和能力，以批判性地判断您的作品，同时将您的知识扩展到不同的模式和体裁。在创意写作中心，我们鼓励实验和创造力的文化，让您感受到作家社区的一部分。
Explore the urge to create and build new worlds, to share language and stories with others. On our course you work on the craft of writing through a multi-genre approach, through and across a variety of writings from fiction and poetry, to non-fiction, psychogeography, performance writing and beyond. At Essex we offer an unusual approach to the practice of writing, combing innovative and traditional methods in order to develop your writing skills and abilities to judge your work critically, while expanding your knowledge across different modes and genres. In the Centre for Creative Writing we encourage a culture of experiment and creativity, enabling you to feel part of a community of writers. Uncover the history and theories of writing practices through studying familiar as well as unfamiliar writings from Ovid's Metamorphoses to Wordsworth, and Kae Tempest, as well as writers taking alternative approaches to text production, from contemporary revisionings of fairytales, to new nature writing, science fiction, and the experimental language play of the French Oulipo group. You will enhance your skills by engaging with a range of techniques, practical exercises and creative approaches and opportunities, including: Discover how words and ideas move across the world and are transformed through translation Write an independent creative project developed over eight months in your final year Explore the psychological foundations of creativity in relation to myth Surrealism and Defamiliarisation Creative use of social media Writing for radio and playwriting Essex has nurtured a long tradition of distinguished writers whose work has shaped literature as we know it today, from past giants such as the American poets Robert Lowell and Ted Berrigan, to contemporary writers such as mythographer and novelist Dame Marina Warner, and Booker Prize winner Ben Okri. Our course offers a varied, flexible and distinctive curriculum, focused on developing your abilities as a writer, while allowing you to take options from the other courses within our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies including literature, filmmaking, journalism and drama. A typical timetable involves a one-hour lecture and a one-hour seminar or a two-hour seminar for each module every week, but there are variations in place depending on the module.