Skyros With centres in Greece and the Caribbean, Skyros is an established 'alternative holiday' company that offers residential writing courses from May to October. Tutors have included, among others, Rachel Billington, Andrew Davies, Nell Dunn, D M Thomas, and Sue Townsend. The MA in Creative Writing in the School of American Studies is aimed at practising authors or those already writing seriously who want to broaden the range of their work. Fiction, poetry and scriptwriting are options. Theory as well as practical aspects of writing are covered.
Selection is by interview and submission of a portfolio of work.
A PhD in Creative and Critical Writing is also offered, this involves an original and substantial piece of work written specifically for the degree, whether novel, play or screenplay, plus a critical analysis of the text and its relationship to the genre it represents. The Centre aims to serve as a link between the University and the wider community. An MA in Creative Writing on a full or part-time basis is on offer at Lancaster university. For those who cannot attend the traditional twice weekly workshop sessions, a distance-learning version of the taught degree is also available either via traditional correspondence methods or computer conferencing. The course is pitched at writers already capable of producing published work.