Critical-Creative Writing Practices

This subject explores the relationship between critical writing and creative writing. Over the course of semester, we’ll read a selection of texts that challenge the boundary between critical and creative writing, and we’ll discuss the relationship between critical schools of thought and students’ own writing practices. We’ll look at critical-creative writing practices on a range of topics and from diverse perspectives including identity, environment, politics, affect, disability, neurodiversity, activism, colonialism, race, gender, queerness and emotion. Weekly exercises will guide students towards producing their own piece of writing which engages with the critical-creative nexus.