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We pioneered the teaching of Creative Writing in the United Kingdom and in 2020 we celebrated 50 years of teaching it. We established the first Masters in Creative Writing in 1970 and the first PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 1987.

Situated in Norwich, England’s first UNESCO City of Literature , each of our courses offers an opportunity to develop as a writer in a vibrant and supportive environment. Our year-round programme of literary events includes the Noirwich Crime Writing Festival , the hugely successful UEA Live (previously known as the UEA Literary Festival), and its student-run companion series, New Writing Live.

Our students join us from all over the world and progress to careers across the creative industries. The publishing success of our graduates remains unrivalled, and in 2017 one of our alumni, Kazuo Ishiguro, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Still the UK’s most prestigious Creative Writing programme, we’ve been awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in recognition of our continuing excellence in delivering innovative courses at a world-class level.

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The Chameleon Literary Journal  has served as Norwich University’s arts and creative writing magazine since its found in 1961.

The Chameleon is a student driven publication that publishes the best visual and literary arts by Norwich students. These creative works come from students across all majors, from residential and online students, and from undergraduate and graduate students. We are, as of 2020, working to become a multilingual literary journal, highlighting student creative writing and translations in multiple languages. 

The Chameleon  student editors select all creative works and give out three creative writing awards, each with financial prizes. Those three prizes are the Allan Nason Prize, the Robert Halleck Poetry Prize,  the Chameleon  Award for Outstanding Achievement in Creative Writing, and the Be You, Be True Prize.

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Our 2021-2022 issue is run by an editorial board that includes the following amazing student editors:

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Creative Writing Scriptwriting MA University of East Anglia

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Prepare for a career writing for theatre, film or television with an MA that allows you to explore and produce dramatic writing across the media.

You’ll study both the theory and practice of dramatic writing, addressing contemporary critical debates, analysing written and performance texts, and experimenting with a range of techniques in original writing. You’ll develop your skills in constructive criticism and creative editing of your peers’ writing, creating a supportive writers’ network in the process.

You’ll be taught by renowned theorists, practitioners and visiting specialists through seminars, presentations, screenings, workshops, readings and performance visits. All with the rigour and professional insight that are the hallmark of our creative writing teaching.

The scriptwriting strand of our world-renowned MA Creative Writing has three core modules.

First, Dramaturgy, in which you will study the core principles of drama as explored from Aristotle to McKee and as embodied in a range of plays, films and TV programmes, from Antigone to Game of Thrones.

You will also take part in the Scriptwriting workshop, building upon your study of dramaturgical theory, where each week you will benefit from the scrutiny and feedback of your fellow writers and workshop leaders. You will incorporate this theory into your own writing practice in weekly creative development workshops, completing scriptwriting and planning exercises. Over the course of the workshop, you and your fellow writers will bring your exercises to the group for discussion and evaluation.

Alongside these modules runs the Process module, where you will develop a script for your choice of medium, building an idea from concept to realisation under the keen eye of an industry expert and exploring the modes of script development that are common practice for working writers.

Over the summer you will also write a dissertation, under the supervision of a member of our faculty.

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The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a government funded research university located in Norwich, England. The university operates from a single campus site which includes the Norwich Research Park and the Bob Champion Research and Education Building, as well a 24-hour library, a concert and gig venue, and the on-campus accommodation.

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Julia Webb is a poet, creative writing tutor, artist and editor based in Norwich. She has three poetry collections published by Nine Arches Press: Bird Sisters (2016), Threat (2019) and The Telling (2022). In 2011 she won the Poetry Society’s Stanza competition. She has twice had poems highly commended in the Forward Prize and in 2018 she won the Battered Moons poetry competition with her poem “We is in the bank” . Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

Julia has masses of poetry industry experience – she runs Norwich Stanza, works for Café Writers, and is a poetry editor for Lighthouse (a journal for new writing). She has a first class honours degree in Creative Writing from Norwich University College of the Arts and an MA (poetry) from the University of East Anglia. She teaches creative writing, mentors poets and runs email poetry courses. She also writes poetry book reviews for Under the Radar.

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Gina Logan has worked as a learning specialist since 1980 in Norwich University's Academic Achievement Center, tutoring students in the social sciences and humanities. She has a keen interest in developmental writing and reading issues and in helping students at all levels become more effective learners.

In 1987, she joined the faculty of the Department of English, where she teaches English Composition and Literature I and II, World Literature I and II, Children’s Literature, American Literature Survey II, and Creative Writing. Her current academic research focuses on the evolution of the spy novel and secret agent films and television programs in the U.K. and U.S., particularly as a response to the Cold War and subsequent geopolitical change.

She earned an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where her critical thesis, The Last American Transcendentalist, focused on the fiction of Don Robertson. The creative portion of her thesis is a collection of short fiction, Like Streams in the Desert.

The author of the historical novel The Autobiography of Miss Huckleberry Finn, she is also working on a family-saga novel set in a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia between 1880 and 1920, a Vermont mystery series set in the years immediately following World War II, a science-fiction novella, and a poetry chapbook. Her poems have been featured in PoemCity (Montpelier, Vt.) since 2013 and in PoemTown (Randolph, Vt.) since 2015.