This is a senior creative writing course in which students develop a sustained writing project in a genre of their choice. In seminars, students are familiarised with the critical debates informing creative writing as a sub-field of English Studies, and they participate in writing exercises. Students are also expected to cover a range of prescribed reading as a means of developing style and technique. Entrance to the course is subject to the submission of a short portfolio of illustrative work for the consideration of the steering committee. (Contact Dr Moolman.) Along with a number of seminar work pieces which comprise a record of progress, course participants will be expected to produce a substantial piece of creative writing by the end of the course – poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, scriptwriting…