Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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PLEASE NOTE: The Institute will be closing at 5:00pm on Tuesday 22 December 2020 and re-opening on Monday 4 January 2021. During this time our academic and professional services teams will be unavailable. If you book onto an online course that begins on 4 January 2021 after the 22 December, you will receive your Welcome Email on 4 January, the course start date. This email will include your username, password, and instructions on how to access the Virtual Learning Environment.
The short story is often described as one of the most satisfying literary genres, both to read and to write. This course encourages students to identify how these stories ‘work’ by considering classic examples which, in each class, illustrate a particular aspect of short story composition. An exchange of ideas and responses between students and tutor enable the student to then put into practice what they have observed in a series of writing challenges, designed to extend their writing skills in this most exciting – and challenging - of genres.
Given the nature of creative writing, it is important that applicants' use of English is sufficiently fluent to be able to understand in English nuances of meaning and have a familiarity with the structure and grammar of English.