Creative Writing Course
The 2013 Creative Writing
Course runs from 29 July to 17 August.
PLEASE note
that we do still accept applications for the
Creative Writing course!
If
you would like to apply, please download the
2013 application form and follow the instructions given. Please
also contact our
administrator for additional information.
Find information
below on Masterclasses, Seminars, and Readings.
Also check
the School's Social and Cultural Programme for more evening events
running along the Creative Writing Course.
You will soon be able
to view the full 2013 programme here.
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 2012
included Zoe Wicomb, John Burnside, Vivian French, David Kinloch, and
Douglas
Maxwell, each of whom led Masterclasses in various writing genres.
Creative Writing at SUISS also offers its participants the unique opportunity
to attend exciting events organised to coincide with the Edinburgh
International Book Festival.
Teaching
The academic programme offers students:
- 10 Worshop Seminars: SUISS tutors lead small group writing seminars
catered to students' writing interests.
- 4 Masterclasses: Prominent contemporary British writers offer,
according to students' interests, an opportunity to engage in unique
discussions and activities.
- 9 Lectures: Students attend the Contemporary Literature course
lectures to gain additional perspectives of critical analysis.
- 3 Individual Mentor Sessions: Students receive 1 hour per week
of individualised tutoring by SUISS tutors.
- 1 Publishing Lecture: A Literary Agent identifies key aspects of
the publishing industry in an exclusive lecture for the students.
- International editorial groups: According to shared interests,
students discuss their work with their peers in an informal, interactive
environment.
Sample Creative Writing
Programme (from 2012)
Week One
Wednesday, 1 August
Introductory SUISS seminar
(morning)
Thursday, 2 August
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 August
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 August
Leading
Scottish literary agent Jenny
Brown will be giving a special lecture on
publishing for our creative writing students
(morning).
SUISS Seminar
Tuesday, 7 August
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork
Orange, Stanley Kubrick and Anglo-American Culture from the 1940s to
the 1970s
Peter Krämer
School of Film & Television Studies
University of East Anglia
(morning)
SUISS Seminar
Wednesday, 8 August
Angela Carter's Nights at
the Circus: Swinging from High to Low
Dr Helen Stoddart
School of Critical Studies - English
University of Glasgow
(morning)
Writing Day
Thursday, 9 August
'This Disgusting Feast of
Filth': Sarah Kane's Blasted
Dr Graham Saunders
Department of Film, Theatre and Television
University of Reading
(morning)
SUISS Seminar
Translation Workshop
Floriana Marinzuli
Creative Scotland Edwin Morgan Fellow 2012
(afternoon)
Friday, 10 August
Contemporary Irish Poetry:
Paul Muldoon, Medbh McGuckian and Ciaran Carson
Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Department of English Literature
University of Aberdeen
(morning)
SUISS Seminar
Sunday, 12 August
Edinburgh International
Book Festival Event: Janice
Galloway
(afternoon)
Week
Three
Monday, 13 August
Coming of Age in Postcolonial
London: Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia
Dr Michelle Keown
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh
(morning)
Masterclass
Workshop on 'Writing
for Children' with Vivian French whose work largely focuses on literature
and illustration for children. Her book The Robe
of Skulls that was
Shortlisted for The 2008 Royal
Mail Awards for Scottish Children’s
Books and was Winner of the Stockton
Children’s Book of the
Year Award 2008.
Edinburgh
International Book Festival Event: Colm
Toibin
(afternoon)
Tuesday, 14 August
Martin McDonagh's The Cripple
of Inishmaan
Dr Eamonn Jordan
School of Litrature, Dramand Film
University College Dublin
(morning)
SUISS Seminar
Masterclass
Workshop on
'Fact/Fiction: Memoir and Science' with the Scottish author of poetry, short
stories, fact and fiction, John
Burnside. His work has been recognized in various
forums: The Devil’s
Footprints was shortlisted for the James
Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction)
and most recently Black Cat Bone won The T.S.
Eliot Prize for best collection
of poetry published in UK in 2011.
(afternoon)
Edinburgh
International Book Festival Event: Alice
Oswald
(evening)
Wednesday, 15 August
'Down
at the bottom, the blood doesn't matter after all': Jackie Kay ’s
Trumpet
Dr Alison Lumsden
Department of English
University of Aberdeen
(morning)
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).
Thursday, 16 August
This Way to Inner Space:
J.G. Ballard's Short Fiction
Dr Sebastian Groes
Department of English and Creative Writing
Roehampton University
(morning)
SUISS Seminar
Edinburgh
International Book Festival Event: Ruth
Rendell
(evening)
Friday, 17 August
Multi-f/vocal: Contemporary
British Poetry & Cultural Representation
Alan Jamieson
Department of English Literature - Creative Writing
University of Edinburgh
(morning)
SUISS Seminar
SUISS Farewell Party (evening)
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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