Creative Writing Course
The 2012 Creative Writing
Course runs from 31 July to 18 August.
There
are still places available on the 2012 Creative Writing Course, but
if you want to attend this year's summer school you need to apply
ASAP! If
you would like to apply download the
2012 application form and follow the instructions given. Please
also contact our
administrator for additional information.
Find below
information on Masterclasses, seminars and readings.
Check also
the School's Social and Cultural Programme for more evening events
running along the Creative Writing Course.
Creative Writing Masterclass with poet John Burnside at SUISS 2009 Our Creative Writing course
is one of the most exciting and diverse courses available in Britain.
This course makes the most of the experience of the leading talents
in the vibrant culture of contemporary British and Irish literature.
The intensive three-week course provides experience in a wide range
of genres, including fiction, poetry, drama and screen-writing, and
in subgenres such as crime fiction, science fiction and life-writing.
It offers developing writers a dynamic and supportive environment
in which to further their skills. The guest writers in 2011
included Meaghan Delahunt, Alice thompson, Chris Dolan and Douglas
Maxwell, all of whom led Masterclasses in various writing genres. Creative
Writing at SUISS is also unique in offering its participants exciting
events organised to coincide with the Edinburgh
International Book Festival.
Teaching
The academic programme offers students:
1) Four to five two-hour writing workshops each week, consisting of
Masterclasses and Masterclass Workshops with established writers and
seminars led by SUISS tutors. Course tutors
all have extensive teaching experience and have published work of their
own. Please note that in the third week, there will be three Masterclass
Workshops of which students may attend two according to their choice.
2) A lecture on publishing
3 ) Unique events organised in conjunction with the Edinburgh International
Book Festival, which coincides with the final week of the course.
4) The opportunity to attend the lectures for the Contemporary Literature
module, which forms part of the Text and Context course. These daily
lectures give students the chance to develop their critical skills and
extend their knowledge of contemporary British and Irish literarture
- because writers need to be readers.
5) An individual one-hour tutorial each week, allowing students to
meet with their tutor to analyse and edit their work.
6) International editorial groups, where students working in similar
genres will meet to discuss their work in an informal environment.
Creative Writing Programme
2012 (in progress)
Week One
Wednesday 1
Introductory SUISS seminar
(morning)
Thursday 2
Masterclass on 'Writing
for the Stage' with Scottish playwright Douglas
Maxwell, award-winning author of Decky Does A Bronco, Our
Bad Magnet, Helmet, Variety, If Destroyed True, Mancub and Melody, all
of which are published by Oberon Books.
(morning)
SUISS Seminar
Friday 3
Masterclass on Writing
Poetry: 'Talking Pictures' with Scottish poet, critic and scholar David
Kinloch, author of Un Tour d'Ecosse and In My Father's
House. His latest collection, Finger
of a Frenchman, which expores looking, and writing about
looking, came
out in 2011.
(morning)
SUISS Seminar
Week
Two
Monday
6
Leading
Scottish literary agent Jenny
Brown will be giving a special lecture on
publishing for our creative writing students
(morning).
SUISS Seminar
Tuesday 7
SUISS Seminar
Wednesday 8
Writing Day
Thursday 9
SUISS Seminar
Friday 10
SUISS Seminar
Week
Three
Monday 13
SUISS Seminar
(morning)
Tuesday 14
Masterclass Workshop on novel-writing
with South-African born Scottish novelist Zoe
Wicomb, author of You Can't Get Lost in Cape
Town (1987), David's
Story (2000) and Playing in the Light (2006).
(morning)
Wednesday 15
Thursday 16
SUISS Seminar
(morning)
Friday 17
SUISS Seminar
SUISS Creative Writing Publication
Northern Light, a collection of work from the SUISS Creative
Writing course The SUISS Creative Writing course offers its
students the opportunity to publish their work in the School's collection
of new writing, Northern Light. This is a biannual publication
and it includes some of the best work produced by the Creative Writing
students during their three weeks in Edinburgh. The second volume is
out now and you can buy it online by clicking here:
SUISS Publications
Several former SUISS students
have since had their work published in other places as well and have
often gone on to pursue a promising writing carreer. Some of them can
be found here.
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