{"id":358,"date":"2016-04-27T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T10:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/?p=358"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:41","slug":"new-ma-in-creative-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/2016\/04\/27\/new-ma-in-creative-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"New MA in Creative Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2016\/04\/Matilda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-359 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2016\/04\/Matilda-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"Matilda\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2016\/04\/Matilda-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2016\/04\/Matilda-768x628.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2016\/04\/Matilda-1024x837.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2016\/04\/Matilda.jpg 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The School of English now has a full Master&#8217;s (M.A.) programme in Creative Writing. The course, which is available both full-time (1 year) and part-time (over 2 years), will officially start in October 2016. Applications are now open. You can see more details about the course here:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/courses\/creative-writing-ma\">https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/courses\/creative-writing-ma\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The course grows out of a vibrant Creative Writing and literary scene in the university and city, and has close connections with <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/institution\/literary-leicester\">Literary Leicester Festival<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/departments\/english\/creativewriting\/centre\">Centre for New Writing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ninearchespress.com\/events.html\">Leicester Shindig<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crystalclearcreators.org.uk\/\">Crystal Clear Creators<\/a> and the regional writing scene in general. It will help students develop their writing (fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, scripwriting and so on) in a supportive and stimulating environment, taught by experienced professional writers and teachers of the subject.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like more information about the course, please do email me, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/departments\/english\/people\/dr-jonathan-taylor\">Dr. Jonathan Taylor<\/a>, on jt265@le.ac.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The School of English now has a full Master&#8217;s (M.A.) programme in Creative Writing. The course, which is available both full-time (1 year) and part-time (over 2 years), will officially start in October 2016. Applications are now open. You can see more details about the course here: &nbsp; https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/courses\/creative-writing-ma\u00a0 &nbsp; The course grows out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4,9],"tags":[48,57,59,55,56,58],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry","category-teaching","tag-creative-writing","tag-m-a","tag-m-a-in-creative-writing","tag-ma-in-creative-writing","tag-masters","tag-masters-in-creative-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}