Creative and Critical Writing

The Creative and Critical Writing course at Bangor University provides you with the opportunity to work over an extended period on a collection of short stories, a novel or a collection of poems under the individual supervision of a writer actively publishing in your field.

If you take this Creative and Critical Writing Creative and Critical Writing PhD course at Bangor University Bangor University you will experience:

• One-to-one teaching and supervision by established writers and academics.
• The opportunity to develop your own specific interests, working in the genre and style of your choice.
• The flexibility to study on a full or part-time basis.
• The opportunity to develop an awareness of your own writing and writing processes through combining creative and critical work, preparing you for a future career in writing or as an academic.

Careers

This course prepares you for a career in higher education, as well as in publishing, arts administration, media research, and a range of related careers. This course fully prepares you for a future career as a writer and as an academic.

Students also have the opportunity to follow a range of training programmes offered through the University that significantly enhance their chances of finding work in the field of their choice.

A number of recent or existing creative writing students have successfully published collections of poems or short stories that have arisen from their studies here at Bangor.

Structure:

• Your creative work on this course will be accompanied by a critical commentary, which should be mainly focused on exploring some idea, topic, genre, theme, writer or group of writers that has a relationship with the creative work being undertaken.
• Researching this element will ensure a good knowledge of current literary concerns. The critical commentary should include a section in which you discuss your own work and the ways in which it relates to the literary texts you have discussed. The major component of the PhD is the creative element, which the critical commentary is intended to support.