Leicester Centre for Creative Writing

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Leicester Centre for Creative Writing is a diverse community of writers working in a wide range of forms and genres including long and short fiction (Sci-Fi, autobiographical, Crime, Literary, Experimental), performance, poetry of all kinds, script (radio, independent film, graphic novel), and digital work. The Centre is interested in all aspects of Practice Research and the potential to find creative ways to express research imperatives in Creative Writing.

The centre has three main foci:

• The promotion and exploration of Creative Writing as a field of Practice Research
• The promotion of Creative Writing as a taught discipline
• Public Engagement

The aim is for the Centre to serve writing communities in the region and beyond, and to provide opportunities for hosting events and collaborations. The Centre's flagship is the highly successful annual collaboration with Five Leaves Press on States of Independence, an independent book festival in a day.

Current centre research includes crime fiction as neo-liberal critique, Afro-futurist fiction, poetry and space exploration, speculative fiction about an alternate history of Leicester, and poetry examining the roots of lyric in invective and ritual cursing.

The Centre has an innovative taught MA programme, Creative Writing MA, that will extend students' writing practice in both professional and research contexts, as well as enable you to work on a long project.

The Centre is currently supervising Creative Writing PhDs involving:

• A collage novel exploring the music scene in the 1990s
• Multi-platform studies of the Millennial generation
• Queer experimental memoir
• Biofiction exploring the painter Turner, and his mother’s incarceration in Bedlam

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH