The Teacher and the Student

Patricia Duncker teaches on the godfather of UK creative writing courses – the MA at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Here she offers behind the scenes insights into a course that boasts the glitziest alumni in the UK, including Trezza Azzopardi, Ian McEwan and Rachel Seiffert. Meanwhile, novelist and editor Jill Dawson, a former student on the Sheffield Hallam creative writing MA who has gone on to achieve great things, writes about how she felt studying Creative Writing affected her work.