This Masters course gives students the opportunity individually, or through collaboration with one or more fellow students, to produce a project or creative work that develops their skills and understanding of a genre or form (eg. transposition, adaptation, performance); or to produce paper and/or web selections and editions of editorial work; or to explore issues of agenting, publishing or book retailing.

1 x 1 hour one-to-one project supervision to be agreed with project supervisor

4 x 2 hour practical classes/workshops as scheduled on MyCampus

CRWRT5025

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5,000 word editorial project (100%)

This course aims to:

■ Enable students to apply knowledge of publishing and the culture of reception to an Editorial Project they design in consultation with the course convenor; 

■ Provide students the opportunity to work singly or through collaboration with one or more fellow students to produce a project or creative work or that develops his or her skills and understanding of a genre or form, e.g. transposition, adaptation, performance etc;

■ Enable students to produce paper and/or web selections and editions of creative or editorial work;

■ Enable students to capitalise on contacts with professional writers/publishers/agents/translators/festival organizers and various others who work in the book industry via their Editorial Project.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Formulate and implement a project relating to textual transmission;

■ Apply specific editorial skills (formal and stylistic) to their selected project;

■ Analyse and explain various roles and tasks in the editing and publish industry;

■ Work with a range of literary texts, not as a creative writer but as a publisher, editor, or translator.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.