Online Tutor MA Creative Writing

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CEG Digital wishes to engage the services of an Online Tutor for their MA Creative Writing programme run in partnership with the University of Hull. This is a post for a self-employed contractor. 

Who we are looking for:

CEG Digital has partnered with the University of Hull to deliver Hull Online, a programme of blended courses taught online within a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Canvas. We are looking to add to our roster of talented, self-employed tutors with the appointment of a tutor for University of Hull Online MA Creative Writing. The University of Hull's flexible learning courses equip students with valuable skills and knowledge, without interrupting income and career progression. 

The Course:

Our MA in Creative Writing aims to provide an inspiring and collegial environment for students who want to develop their distinctive voice as a writer. Taught by academics who are published writers, students will expand their reading of literature, navigate literary circles and critique the work of their peers. Whatever the genre of preference, be it literary fiction, the branches of non-fiction, or the likes of fantasy, students will have the opportunity to hone their writing skills and discover the techniques seminal writers have used to significant effect. More information on the course can be found on the University of Hull website.   

The Module:

For this module, the Online Tutor will encourage students to examine a wide range of narrative non-fiction and understand how the writers achieved their effects, discovering elements of writers’ craft, and workshopping how to apply those crafting skills in students’ own writing. Students will be guided on how to apply the textural elements taught in their introductory module — point of view, the use of observed and sensory detail, dialogue, varieties of sentence length, methods of increasing sentence flow, the use of perspective, choices of tense and first / second / third person, lexical fields — to non-fiction writing. Instruction and guidance in elements of narrative structure will engender an understanding of how this work is made accessible to potential readers. Students will navigate the ethical dilemmas of writing from life: writing real people, permissions and fictionalisation. Students will be guided how to gather research material for their writing, how to identify a story within real life and how to develop this material into compelling non-fiction writing.  

Applicants will have experience of leading creative writing workshops, and be articulate about their writing process in any prose form. They will be able to critique work so as to illuminate a writer’s strengths and highlight areas that can be strengthened. Applicants must be confident about leading discussion through an engaging online presence and should have a PhD in creative writing and some publishing record, preferably including non-fiction. 

View the full job description and apply on our website. 

The closing date for applications is 17 August 2021.