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HZ9101: Introduction to Creative Writing COURSE OUTLINE

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Introduction to Chinese Creative Writing

With huaichen wu.

This is a 13-weeks semester-long course for NTU undergraduates. This course aims to broaden your knowledge of various genres in literature and techniques of creative writing, which includes fiction, prose and poetry, etc. This course will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese.

此课程只开放给南洋理工大学本科生。

This course is available to Nanyang Technological University undergraduate students only.

Summary  概要

课程编号：HW1/HF5101

十三堂课，每堂三小时 初级至中级写作者 南洋理工大学本科生选修课

Course code: HW1/HF5101

13 seminars of 3 hours over a semester

For Foundation to Intermediate Writers in Mandarin Chinese

Undergraduate course at Nanyang Technological University

AY2023/24 Semester 1

Nanyang Technological University

Overview 概述

This course aims to broaden your knowledge of various genres in literature and techniques of creative writing, which includes fiction, prose and poetry, etc. You are required to produce writings of various themes and emphasis will be placed on the originality and creativity of the writer’s craft. Through reading and reviewing works by established writers and collaborative critical response, you will collectively explore the creative writing processes and develop your individual styles.

This course will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese.

Learning Outcomes 预期成果

Participants will:

• develop their drafting and writing skills
• develop their understanding of Chinese creative writing
• gain a deeper knowledge of how to produce Chinese language writing
• obtain skills and experience to help participants produce Chinese language writing

Who should register? 谁该报名？

• 初级写作者 – 定义：首次写作或还未曾在期限之下写作的写作者。
• 中级写作者 – 定义：已把写作列为副业或主业但是尚未在主流出版社发表过任何作品的写作者。

This course is open to undergraduate students of Nanyang Technological University through the academic enrolment process.

Writers including:

• Foundation Writers — Early stage, promising writers with no requirement for any publication history. Foundation writers are those who are writing for the first time or have never written with deadlines or structure before.
• Intermediate Writers — Writers who have chosen to pursue writing as a full time or part time career with a serious, professional intent but have not yet published with a mainstream or recognised independent publisher.

This course will be conducted in the Chinese language.

Registration and Pricing 报名与课程收费

Course Prerequisites 报名条件

This course is open to NTU undergraduates only through the academic ennrolment process.

About HuaiChen Wu

Wu Huaichen is a poet from Taiwan. He has published multiple literary works, including the poetry book “Gulps of the Pouring Light ” (winner of the Golden Tripod Awards for Excellent Literary Book), “Surfer Romance” (winner of the Wu Zhuoliu Literary Prize‧ Poetry Award ), and the prose “Songs of a Surfer” (winner of China Times Open Book Award, the Best Book of the Year), etc. In addition, he has published several academic collections of research essays on literature and philosophy, and he is also the translator of several important academic books, including Georges Bataille’s “Tears of Eros” in Chinese.   As a professor of the Graduate Institute of Transdisciplinary Study on Creative Writing and Literature, Wu has advised many talented young writers. As a poet, he has been invited to participate in numerous international poetry festivals such as the Asian International Poetry Festival, the Taipei International Poetry Festival, the Pacific International Poetry Festival, and the Singapore Writers Festival.

吴怀晨，台湾诗人，任教于台北艺术大学文学跨领域创作所，近年专注书写台湾的山海文学。他的学术专长包括比较哲学、现当代华文文学、及新诗写作，曾任美国德州大学奥斯丁分校访问学者（2022-23）。出版诗集《渴饮光流》(获金鼎奖）、《浪人吟》(获吴浊流文学奖新诗奖）及散文集《浪人之歌》(获开卷年度好书奖）等，并有学术著作及译作多种。

Other Courses & Events with HuaiChen Wu

Writing Chinese Poetry

In this four-week Foundation to Intermediate course, Professor HuaiChen Wu offers an encouraging and informative workshop to help writers write their own poetry in the Chinese language. This course will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese.

Writer to Writer with HuaiChen Wu

Book a one-on-one mentoring session with Professor HuaiChen Wu to discuss your writing project. Professor HuaiChen Wu will provide guidance to help your creative practice and support your writing life. These sessions will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese.

• Professional and short courses
• Creative short courses

Short courses in Creative Writing

For beginners and more experienced writers, these engaging, entertaining courses develop skills in crafting short stories, flash fiction, non-fiction, plays and full-length novels.

Discover our courses

Beginners, improvers and professionals are all welcome to attend a short course where you'll meet other adult learners who share your interests to achieve personal and professional goals.

Courses run during evenings and weekends as well as intensive, week long courses during the summer.

If you'd like to discuss which course is right for you or have additional questions we'd love to help! You can  email us or give us a call on +44 (0)115 848 2813 .

Are you interested in progressing your writing?

Find out about our undergraduate and postgraduate courses:

BA Creative Writing

MA Creative Writing

Creative Writing for Beginners (Evenings)

The aim of this course is to enable the beginner to work on developing their writing skills in a variety of different areas, including poetry, short story writing, flash fiction, playwriting and writing a full-length novel.

Creative Writing for Beginners (Daytimes)

This course is for anyone that wants to scratch their writing itch! You’ll develop your writing skills in a variety of different areas, including poetry, short story writing, flash fiction, playwriting and novel writing.

Words That Sell: Compelling Copywriting

Unleash your creativity, sharpen your writing skills, and create impactful copywriting that allows your words to become the catalyst for successful engagement with your audience.

Writing Creative Non-Fiction

Creative non-fiction is among the most exciting forms of writing around, crossing a range of genres; from biographies and memoirs to travel and documentary writing, to film and music, and even cookery, history and politics. This introduction to creative non-fiction will help you to identify your subject and tell your story in the most compelling way possible using a range of literary techniques.

Writing Lives: Mastering Memoirs, Autobiographies and Biographies

Embark on a journey to unravel the intricate strands of your life story or bring the story of your family history to light through the power of the written word. Acquire practical techniques to craft a compelling and captivating personal narrative for a manuscript.

Writing Modern Fairy Tales

Discover the magic of writing your own modern fiction story and connecting traditional fairy tale storylines with the contemporary world around you. This course is ideal for anyone interested in developing their creative writing; whether you’d like to write for children and young adults, or something that can be understood at a much deeper, more subconscious level by an adult.

Confident Writing for Business

Whether you're regularly writing emails and reports or presentations and project briefs, winning over your audience with the right words is essential. Learn how best to present specialist or technical information for a diverse range of stakeholders and audiences.

I chose this course because I wanted to develop my skills and enjoyed the whole experience, loved every minute. The balance of completing creative writing exercises and having a dialogue and discussion was perfect, and I was always inspired every week. I met a group of lovely like-minded writers and plan on staying in contact to follow each other's writing journeys.

Creative Writing for Beginners student

Bennie Hawra

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