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Creative Writing Single Honours and Creative Writing Joint Honours
Welcome Information – Reading Lists 2015/16
Please read this whole document carefully.
Welcome to the programme! We know you will have an inspiring and exciting time here. In
your first couple of weeks there is a lot to learn, so don’t worry if you don’t remember
everything. This document tells you the basics and has your essential reading. In the first
week remember to:
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Make sure you have a username and password to log into timetable, Moodle and
email.
Make any module choices online that you are required to make.
Check your timetable. Check this again for the first couple of weeks as it can change.
Go to any welcome talks, lectures or first classes you are scheduled to attend.
Bring pen and paper to make notes.
Don’t worry about asking questions.
Check your subject handbook (on Moodle)
Read through any information on Moodle or printed out that you are given.
Check university emails.
The following is information about Creative Writing. If you are a Joint Honours student,
please also see the welcome information for your other subject.
Readings below are Essential Texts, meaning you are advised to own a copy so you can
bring it to class. It’s good to get these all before you start classes, then you can get a head
start with reading. Many are available for Kindle and IPad, as well as new and second-hand
paper copies on Amazon, The Little Apple Bookshop on High Petergate in York and
Waterstones on Coney Street in York.
When you start, you will also receive a list of further reading to help you with assignments
and essays and add to your depth of understanding. Further readings are available in the
library or as electronic versions.
Modules
All Creative Writing Students take the module Forms of Narrative. In addition:
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Single Honours Creative Writing students also take Reading Texts 1 and
Introduction to Creative Writing as compulsory modules.
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Joint Honours Creative Writing students can choose to take Introduction to
Creative Writing, Writing for Academic Success or a skills module from the other
Joint Honours pairing. The reading lists for these are listed at the end.
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Module Code(s): 1CW101 and 1EN230 - Forms of Narrative
Module Director: Naomi Booth
Primary – Core texts you need to bring to classes:
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Ovid, Metamorphoses: a New Verse Translation Penguin New Ed. Edition, ISBN
014044789X
Selected contemporary poems - will be available on Moodle. Please download, print
and bring to class.
Paterson, Don (ed.) 101 Sonnets from Shakespeare to Heaney, ISBN: 0571215572
Saunders, G. Tenth of December ISBN: 1408837366 (any edition)
Churchill, C. Top Girls Metheun Drama, ISBN: 1408106035
Shelley, M. Frankenstein, The 1818 Text, Oxford Paperbacks, ISBN: 0199537151
Ishiguro, Kazuo Never Let Me Go, Faber, ISBN: 0571258093 (any edition)
Donohue, E. Room ISBN: 0330519026 (any edition)
Module: 1EN011 – Reading Texts 1
Module Director: Fraser Mann
Essential texts. In Bennett and Royle, please read chapters 1-4.
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Atkinson, K. (1997) Behind the Scenes at the Museum. London, Picador.
Austen, J. (2008) Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon. Oxford,
Oxford World’s Classics.
Bennett, A. and Royle, N. (2009). An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory.
Oxford, Pearson.
Kafka, F. (2007) Metamorphosis and Other Stories. London, Penguin Modern
Classics.
Shakespeare, W. (2008). Twelfth Night. London, Arden.
Wilde, O. The Importance of Being Earnest. ANY EDITION.
Module: 1CW010 – Introduction to Creative Writing
Module Director: Rob Edgar
Essential texts:
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Aristotle, Poetics (On Poetry) – any edition
Hopkins, C. (2009) Thinking About Texts: An Introduction to English Studies.
Basingstoke, Palgrave.
Morley, D. (2007) The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press
Porter, A (2008) The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press
Module: 1EN420 – Writing For Academic Success
Module Director: Janine Bradbury
Before your first seminar, please read Tory Young’s Studying English Literature, Chapters 1
and 2.
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Primary – Core texts you need to bring to classes:
Selected short stories, non-fiction, poetry, and critical essays (these will be provided on
Moodle – please print these items off and bring them to class each week).
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Young, T. (2008) Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press.
A. and Royle, N. (2009) An Introduction to Literature, Criticism, and Theory. Harlow,
Pearson.
Recommended Secondary Reading:
(All are available at Information Learning Services and we strongly recommend that you
familiarise yourselves with these texts as part of your supported open learning.)
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Barry, P. (2008) Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory.
Manchester, Manchester University Press.
Hopkins, C. (2009) Thinking About Texts: An Introduction to English Studies.
Basingstoke, Palgrave.
Kennedy, X.J. and Gioia, D. (any edition) Literature: An Introduction to Fiction,
Poetry, Drama, and Writing. London, Pearson
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