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Portfolio-writing 2021  (all links open as pdf files), reflective writing - a reflection of my 12-year-old feminist self.

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Candidate 4 (Creative - reflective | These Old Yellow Bricks)

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Candidate 5 (Creative - drama | Corruption)

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Candidate 6 (Creative - prose fiction | Inner Demons)

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Candidate 7 (Creative - prose fiction | Get to Heaven Fables)

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Candidate 8 (Discursive - persuasive | Politics: Public Profile over Policy?)

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Candidate 9 (Creative - prose fiction | Split Infinities)

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Candidate 11 (Creative - poetry | Sonderkommando Man)

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Candidate 12 (Creative - reflective | Fifteen, five, twenty, and ten ... Can I return?)

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Creative Writing and Literature Master’s Degree Program

Unlock your creative potential and hone your unique voice.

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One 1- or 3-week residency in summer

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Program Overview

Through the master’s degree in creative writing and literature, you’ll hone your skills as a storyteller — crafting original scripts, novels, stories, and works of creative nonfiction.

In small, workshop-style classes, you’ll master key elements of narrative craft, including characterization, story and plot structure, point of view, dialogue, and description. Rigorous literature courses, many of them taught by Harvard College faculty members, will deepen your skills as a writer and scholar.

Program Benefits

Instructors who are established screenwriters, novelists, and nonfiction writers

A community of writers who support your growth in live online classes

Writer's residency with agent & editor networking opportunities

Personalized academic and career advising

Thesis or capstone options that lead to publishable creative work

Harvard Alumni Association membership upon graduation

Customizable Course Curriculum

As you work through the program’s courses, you’ll enhance your creative writing skills and knowledge of literary concepts and strategies.

You’ll hone your voice as a writer in courses like Writing the Novel and Advanced Memoir. You’ll explore the possibilities of the screen in courses such as Advanced Screenwriting and Comedy Sketch Writing.

Within the creative writing and literature program, you will choose between a thesis or capstone track. You’ll also experience the convenience of online learning and the immersive benefits of learning in person.

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Thesis or Capstone Track

• Thesis: features a 9-month independent creative project with a faculty advisor
• Capstone: includes crafting a fiction or nonfiction manuscript in a classroom community

The path to your degree begins before you apply to the program.

First, you’ll register for and complete 2 required courses, earning at least a B in each. These foundational courses are investments in your studies and count toward your degree, helping ensure success in the program.

Enroll for your first admission course this fall. Course registration is open July 22–August 29.

To get started, explore degree requirements, confirm your initial eligibility, and learn more about our unique “earn your way in” admissions process.

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Studying at Harvard Extension School means learning from the world’s best. Our instructors are established and award-winning writers and scholars. They bring a genuine passion for teaching, with students giving our faculty an average rating of 4.7 out of 5.

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80% of our creative writing and literature students are enrolled in our master’s degree program for either personal enrichment or to make a career change. Most (74%) are employed full time while pursuing their degree and work across a variety of industries.

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Graduates of our Creative Writing and Literature Master’s Program have writing, research, and communication jobs in the fields of publishing, advertising/marketing, fundraising, secondary and higher education, and more.

Some alumni continue their educational journeys and pursue further studies in other nationally ranked degree programs, including those at Boston University, Brandeis University, University of Pennsylvania, and Cambridge University.

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Whatever your career goals, we’re here to support you. Harvard’s Mignone Center for Career Success offers career advising, employment opportunities, Harvard alumni mentor connections, and career fairs like the annual on-campus Harvard Humanities, Media, Marketing, and Creative Careers Expo.

Your Harvard University Degree

Upon successful completion of the required curriculum, you will earn the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Extension Studies, Field: Creative Writing and Literature.

Expand Your Connections: the Harvard Alumni Network

As a graduate, you’ll become a member of the worldwide Harvard Alumni Association (400,000+ members) and Harvard Extension Alumni Association (29,000+ members).

Harvard is closer than one might think. You can be anywhere and still be part of this world.

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Affordability is core to our mission. When compared to our continuing education peers, it’s a fraction of the cost.

After admission, you may qualify for financial aid . Typically, eligible students receive grant funds to cover a portion of tuition costs each term, in addition to federal financial aid options.

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What can you do with a master’s degree in creative writing and literature?

A master’s degree in creative writing and literature prepares you for a variety of career paths in writing, literature, and communication — it’s up to you to decide where your interests will take you.

You could become a professional writer, editor, literary agent, marketing copywriter, or communications specialist.

You could also go the academic route and bring your knowledge to the classroom to teach creative writing or literature courses.

Is a degree in creative writing and literature worth it?

The value you find in our Creative Writing and Literature Master’s Degree Program will depend on your unique goals, interests, and circumstances.

The curriculum provides a range of courses that allow you to graduate with knowledge and skills transferable to various industries and careers.

How long does completing the creative writing and literature graduate program take?

Program length is ordinarily anywhere between 2 and 5 years. It depends on your preferred pace and the number of courses you want to take each semester.

For an accelerated journey, we offer year round study, where you can take courses in fall, January, spring, and summer.

While we don’t require you to register for a certain number of courses each semester, you cannot take longer than 5 years to complete the degree.

What skills do you need prior to applying for the creative writing and literature degree program?

Harvard Extension School does not require any specific skills prior to applying, but in general, it’s helpful to have solid reading, writing, communication, and critical thinking skills if you are considering a creative writing and literature master’s degree.

Initial eligibility requirements can be found on our creative writing and literature master’s degree requirements page .

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Advanced creative writing

Advanced creative writing develops your writing ability by widening your generic range and developing your knowledge of style. The module works on the forms introduced in the OU level 2 module Creative writing (A215) – fiction, poetry and life writing – and supplements these with dramatic writing, showing you how to write for stage, radio and film. You’ll explore how these scriptwriting skills might enhance your prose style, improve your writing across the range of forms, and further develop your individual style and voice. The module offers guidance on professional layouts for the dramatic media and is a natural progression from Creative writing (A215).

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This module is structured in four parts. At the core of the module is a handbook that takes you week-by-week through methods, readings and writing exercises. This handbook covers the first three parts of the module. The fourth part is a period of independent study and project work.

Part 1: Ways of writing  You'll begin by looking at different approaches to writing. In particular, you'll focus on the influence of genre, world-building in dystopian and fantasy fiction, setting in life writing and narrative in poetry. Work includes readings and writing exercises in fiction, poetry, and life writing.

Part 2: Dramatic writing You'll progress to explore writing techniques for three dramatic media: stage, film and audio, which will illustrate the narrative strengths and constraints of each medium. You'll examine the conventional layouts for these media, and this part will also deal with dramatic principles connected to dialogue, subtext, status and exposition, as well as media-specific elements such as sets for the stage, aural contrast in audio and montage in film. You’ll also consider the techniques involved in adapting work in other genres to script.

Part 3: Developing style and structure You'll look at how some of the methods used in dramatic writing can improve fiction writing, life writing and poetry. You’ll consider the inner world in life writing, and dramatic techniques in poetry. This section goes on to explore writing approaches in a wide-ranging fashion, covering time, voice, long and short-form work, theme and structure, and the uses of rhetoric and analogy. You’ll focus on improving your writing style and voice in all genres.

Part 4:   Independent study This final part involves working on a larger project, culminating in the presentation of an end-of-module assessment comprising a substantial piece of creative writing in one of the forms taught in the module – fiction, poetry, life writing or drama.

As in Creative writing (A215), the emphasis is very much on practice through guided activities, although as the module progresses, you will increasingly be expected to generate and develop your own ideas without reliance on the study materials. In comparison to the OU level 2 module, the emphasis will be on working independently to enhance and improve your writing style and voice. You'll spend longer developing, editing and redrafting your work and will write a dramatic adaptation and explore the influence of drama on your work.

Online tutor-group forums will enable peer-group discussion of some of your work. You'll be expected to engage in these activities, giving impersonal and informed evaluations of your own and others’ work through constructive criticism. Some of the tutor-marked assignments will require evidence of engagement on the online forum.

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Support from your tutor.

You’ll have a tutor who will help you with the study material and mark and comment on your written work, and whom you can ask for advice and guidance both via online forum and by phone or email. Your tutor also offers general support throughout the module, as you progress through the Handbook, which is the principal guide to your learning.

There will be online tutorials that you are encouraged, but not obliged, to attend. You can access recordings of tutors covering material that was delivered in online tutorials.

Full guidance will be provided on accessing the teaching provided via online forums. Online tutor-group forums enable peer discussion of some of your work and allow tutors to make general points of relevance to the whole group.

Contact us  if you want to know more about study with The Open University before you register.

The assessment details for this module can be found in the facts box.

Future availability

Advanced creative writing starts once a year – in October. This page describes the module that will start in October 2024. We expect it to start for the last time in October 2035. 

Regulations

Course work includes:.

This module builds on the explicit skills taught in Creative writing (A215), ideally which you'll have completed, or equivalent study, before embarking on this module.

If this is your first creative writing module, then ‘equivalent study’ would comprise preparation, including our Creative Writing Tasters and Exercises , which has interviews with writers, sample writing exercises and links to other creative writing study at the OU.  

If you have any doubt about the suitability of the module, please speak to an  adviser .

Preparatory work

You are also strongly advised to prepare for the module by reading  Creative Writing: A workbook with readings  (2nd edition).

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The only book to support the compulsory Textual Analysis component of Advanced Higher English. This book will prepare you for the textual analysis elements of Advanced Higher English that are prevalent throughout the course, as well as offering invaluable advice on the creative writing Portfolio. The Textual Analysis component forms a compulsory section of the Advanced Higher English syllabus, which accounts for 20% of your final grade, while creative writing accounts for a further 30%. The writers are highly experienced in dealing with this aspect of the exam, and have been actively involved in developing skills in this area over recent years. Offers wide selection of materials for study and practice, including fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction Includes exam-style extracts and questions with advice on answers Demonstrates practical means of improving creative writing skills by re-crafting and refining the techniques demonstrated in the extracts.

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Advanced Creative Writing

Creative and critical skills development in writing fiction

Module details

• Offered to 3rd & 4th Years
• Thursdays 16.00-18.00
• Planned delivery: On campus (South Kensington)
• Two-term module, worth 5 ECTS
• Available to eligible students as part of I-Explore
• Extra Credit, or Degree Credit where your department allows

This advanced module in creative writing is intended for students who have a demonstrable interest in and appreciation of creative writing and wish to develop and refine their creative and critical skills and potential as writers. Your aim is to write fiction that engages a readership. Our approach is practical and technical with a particular emphasis on creative practice. We explore the creative process in lectures that are highly interactive, using contemporary novels, short stories and extracts from essays. You will share your writing with classmates in workshops, actively engaging in peer review and collaborating on creative problem-solving. You will be encouraged to make creative use of your own scientific knowledge and experience.

Please note that a good level of fluency in English writing will be required for this module. Restrictions on module selection : This module is not a continuation of the 2nd year Creative Writing module. If you have taken 'Creative Writing' in your 2nd year, you are not eligible to enrol in this module during your 3rd or 4th year.

Please note: The information on this module description is indicative. The module may undergo minor modifications before the start of next academic year. 

Information blocks, learning outcomes.

• Acquire technical and composition skills in fiction
• Present, receive and engage with oral feedback in peer review workshop
• Refine critical analysis skills
• Develop, progress and refine compositional skills

Indicative core content

• Developing a creative practice: raising critical awareness of the creative process
• Characterisation: investigating and developing psychology
• Language and style
• Worldbuilding
• Narrative structure
• Point of view
• Autobiographically informed fiction
• Presenting creative work for publication
• Editing and revision
• Opportunity to contribute creative and critical work to College publications
• Peer review in creative writing workshops
• Making creative use of your scientific knowledge and experience
• Developing a critical vocabulary to discuss your own creative work

Learning and teaching approach

• Coursework: Creative writing - 2,000-3,000 words (30%)
• Coursework: Creative writing - 2,000-5,000 words (50%)
• Coursework: Analytical essay - 1,000-1,500 words (10%)
• Practical: Workshop participation mark (10%)

Key information

• Requirements: You are expected to attend all classes and undertake approximately 85 hours of independent study in total during the module. Independent study includes reading and preparation for classes, researching and writing coursework assignments and preparing for other assessments.
• This module is designed as an undergraduate Level 6 module. For an explanation of levels, view the Imperial Horizons Level Descriptors page .‌‌

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Creative writing courses

Short and part-time courses with Oxford University

Need an extra push to finish your novel, poem or play? Want to explore new genres? Whether you're a beginner wondering where to start, or an experienced writer looking to extend your craft, we have a course for you.

Short courses

Our  short courses in creative writing  include in person and online live-time weekly classes, day and weekend schools and flexible online courses.

Courses cover all genres: fiction, poetry, memoir, creative nonfiction, drama, writing for young adults and critical reading. There are courses for beginners and options for those with experience. Class sizes are kept small to maximise interaction between you, your classmates and your tutor.

Credit earned from some of our short courses is transferable towards our  Certificate of Higher Education  – a part-time undergraduate course in which you study a main subject discipline, but also undertake study in other academic subjects.

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Summer schools

Join us for one of our Oxford  creative writing summer courses , and spend a week or longer immersed in your craft. Accredited and non-accredited options are available; courses take place at Rewley House and at Oxford's historic colleges.

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Part-time Oxford University qualifications

From undergraduate level to advanced postgraduate study.

• The  Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing  is a two-year part-time course that helps you to strengthen your ability in four major areas of literary activity — prose, poetry, drama and analytical reading — while letting you specialise in the genre of your choice. Choose from two study options: regular in-person meetings in Oxford or mostly online, with a summer school in Oxford.
• The  Certificate of Higher Education  is a flexible, part-time programme which lets you study a main subject discipline (such as creative writing) while also undertaking study in other academic subjects. Ideal for lifelong learners, you can study what you want, when you want, how you want. The credits you obtain from taking short online courses, weekly classes and attendance at the Oxford University Summer School for Adults all count towards your final award.
• Delve deeper into creative writing with our MSt in Creative Writing – a two-year, part-time master's programme offering a unique combination of high contact hours, genre specialization, and critical and creative breadth, delivered in a clustered learning format of five residences, two guided retreats and one placement over two years.

Student spotlights

Charles bush.

Charles Bush published his debut young-adult novel thanks to the skills and experience gained from completing the Undergraduate Certificate of Higher Education.

Tahmina Maula

Tahmina worked as a senior manager in education before taking a career break to undertake the Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing.

Daisy Johnson

While studying the MSt in Creative Writing Daisy worked on a collection of short stories which would later become her debut book.

Upcoming courses

Advanced creative writing (online).

• Mon 09 Sep 2024 – 22 Nov 2024

Advanced Writing Lives (Online)

Fiction by victorian women: george eliot, elizabeth gaskell (online), writing lives (online), critical reading (online).

• Wed 11 Sep 2024 – 22 Nov 2024

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Part-time creative writing award-bearing courses for those looking to gain an Oxford qualification.

Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing (from 2025)

Mst in creative writing, undergraduate certificate of higher education (from 2025).

N7 – Advanced Higher

Welcome to the Advanced Higher Blog page.  Here you will find useful course information, homework deadlines and resources for printing.

Please use this space to support your individual study and keep you up to date with the course (especially if you have been absent).

COURSE DOCUMENTS:

N7 Course Outline  – An overview of the Internal/External Components

Reflect on why you are doing Advanced Higher  – Course Overview PPT with Reflective Introduction Exercise Instructions (see below)

analysis-assessment-opening-chapters  – Logbook for internal A&E Assessment

HOMEWORK DEADLINE:

• Thursday 2nd February – Second submission of writing (either 1st draft discursive or developed creative piece for internal outcomes with all of the required Critical Reflection)
• Dissertation 2nd Draft – DEADLINE: Tuesday 21st February – remember you can submit initial sections in advance to get feedback and see you are on the right track.  See Dissertation page for further resources.

For those who submitted developed creative piece last time and just need to finalise bits for folio copy or elements of critical reflection, can you get this in asap.

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Advanced Higher English: Textual Analysis (with advice on Creative Writing)

• Author(s) Ann Bridges; Susan MacDonald
• Publisher Hodder Gibson

Print ISBN 9781471883040, 1471883043

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Advanced Higher English: Textual Analysis (with advice on Creative Writing) is written by Ann Bridges; Susan MacDonald and published by Hodder Gibson. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Advanced Higher English: Textual Analysis (with advice on Creative Writing) are 9781471883040, 1471883043 and the print ISBNs are 9781471883040, 1471883043. Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781471883026.

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Rethinking creative writing in higher education : programs and practices that work

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• Foreword by Dr Steve May. Chapter One: Creative Writing in Higher Education: Reflection, Innovation, Accountability. Notes from the Field (I): Storming the Garret. Chapter Two: Undergraduate Creative Writing Programs. Notes from the Field (2): Grasping Ariadne's Thread: Wendy Bishop's Stories and My Own. Chapter Three: Graduate Creative Writing Programs: Creative Writing Comes of Age. Notes from the Field (III): Once More to the Workshop: A Myth Caught in Time. Chapter Four: Workshopping the Workshop. Notes from the Field (IV): A Place to Start. Chapter Five: Creative Writing Programs in the World. Afterword: Looking Inward and Outward. Appendix. End matter: Imprint information and credits
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