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New Masters Degree in Imaginative Writing launched at UEL

Monday 7 August 2006

Calling all budding authors… the University of East London (UEL) is launching a new MA degree in Writing: Imaginative Practice, starting this September.

Taught by a team of renowned writers with international experience, the new MA offers an exciting, mixed-genre approach to writing, allowing students to hone their approach through critical creative practice.

With core modules in genre, realism, adaptation and research methods, the programme will enable students to develop their writing through workshops, seminars and tutorials, leading to supervised preparation for a practice-based dissertation.

Tessa McWatt, who directs the MA programme and is herself a noted author, said: "UEL is a cosmopolitan community, and this new MA will reflect our diversity by encouraging students to expand their horizons and create exciting new hybrid forms.

"Our interdisciplinary workshops will involve film, drama, music, new media, fiction and poetry, as we aim to combine the strengths of many existing UEL programmes to provide our students with fertile ground for experimentation."

UEL's new MA Writing: Imaginative Practice is offered as a full-time or part-time programme, with most seminars and workshops taking place in the evenings. For further information, contact Tessa McWatt on 020 8223 7237 or t.a.mcwatt@uel.ac.uk

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For details and pictures contact Patrick Wilson: 020 8223 2061 or 07951 797 975

Notes to Editors

The University of East London (UEL) is a global learning community with over 28,000 students from over 120 countries world-wide. Our vision is to achieve recognition, both nationally and internationally, as a successful and inclusive regional university proud of its diversity, committed to new modes of learning which focus on students and enhance their employability, and renowned for our contribution to social, cultural and economic development, especially through our research and scholarship. We have a strong track-record in widening participation and working with industry.

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