MA Course
MA core programme 2010-2011
Staff at NTU will be joined by visiting professors Michael Eaton and David Almond to offer a programme of lectures for our core module, Writing: Theory and Practice in 2010-2011. Lectures and workshops include sessions on:
- characterisation
- dialogue
- surprise
- image
- voice
- form
- structure
- plagiarism and piracy
- adaptation
- children's and young adult fiction
- memoir.
In addition to a day school devoted to developing the student anthology, we also have an ekphrasis workshop at Nottingham Contemporary, writing in response to The British Art Show 7.
We have a number of extremely exciting guest lecturers this year. Kate Pullinger will talk about her novel, The Mistress of Nothing, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in 2009, and Abi Curtis, winner of the Crashaw Prize for Unexpected Weather, will discuss Poetry and Ventriloquism. We are also delighted to welcome Andrew Spooner, whose work appears regularly in The Independent, The Guardian, and The Observer, who will be discussing Travel writing in the East: Constructing and Consuming Thailand. Amanda Whittington, will also be presenting a lecture entitled 'Be My Baby: Writing For Radio and Stage'. In addition, Professor Nicholas Royle, author of The Uncanny, Telepathy and Literature and After Derrida, will be joining us to talk about his debut novel, Quilt. We will also have sessions on understanding the publishing industry and a publisher's workshop with Tindal Street Press.
