After graduation
After graduationYou will emerge as a conscious writer and storyteller, ready to make an impact on the literary field and society at large. As a graduate, you will possess the skills, insights, and network to shape your professional practice across diverse roles and contexts, from literary creation to collaboration and innovation.
Your skills and qualities as a graduate
Qualification 1: Writing and narrating
THE CREATIVE WRITER GRADUATE AS CREATOR
The Creative Writer graduates produce authentic, artistic and literary narrative work that stems from research, association, and imagination. They use creative insight, contemplation, inventiveness, experimentation, empathy, intuition, and knowledge to create profound narrative creative work and employ a variety of media and techniques to publish and share this work. They create new narratives through which they initiate change in the prevailing social narratives; among peers, diverse communities, social organizations, policy makers, administrators, and the public.
Qualification 2: Contextualizing and (re)positioning
THE CREATIVE WRITER GRADUATE AS RESEARCHER
Creative Writer graduates work from a fascination with the unknown, the hidden, the future, the misunderstood, and what needs to be fathomed. Here, in-depth analysis, self-reflection, change of perspective and critical approach form the basis for the investigation of narrative, fiction and truth. In this process of research, the interaction between the research and the artistic product plays a crucial role, because an important characteristic of writing is that ideas, insights, and connections arise in and through the action of writing itself: it is generative, as well as communicative.
Qualification 3: Harnessing innovative potential
THE CREATIVE WRITER GRADUATE AS INNOVATOR
Ownership, the ability to (re)position oneself, and autonomy are the hallmarks of Creative Writer graduates. These qualities enable them to position their work in an unpredictable, dynamic world with numerous and constant social, political, technological, economic, and global changes. The Creative Writer graduates recognize and analyse complex problems in the contemporary literary professional practice and resolve them in tactical, strategic and creative ways. They identify gaps in existing knowledge about current literary professional practice and take action by responsibly and critically collecting and analyzing texts, and by making original contributions to the development and application of ideas.
Qualification 4: Presenting and Publishing
THE CREATIVE WRITER GRADUATE AS INTERPRETER
Creative Writer graduates have an international network of translators, editors, curators, and publishers and have the ability to present their work within this international context. They are both leading partners in the international literary field, as well as pioneers who redefine the status and operation of authorship in ways that bring movement to the traditional and rigid forcefield of publishers, magazines, agents, venues, vendors and reading audiences.
Qualification 5: Collaboration and outreach
THE CREATIVE WRITER GRADUATE AS STRATEGIST
The context to which the creative writer graduates relate include the political, cultural, historical, and economic dimensions of society. These dimensions encapsulate developments at both the local level, as well as at the international level. This context is constantly changing, as new developments or shifts in recurring themes are part of our dynamic environment. Moreover, as that environment has become more global and complex due to, for example, increased digital information flows, economic recessions, an aging population, and migration of populations, the Creative Writer is aware of the importance of interaction, innovation and exchange to continuously relate to this growing complexity. Collaboration and reaching out to others is of great importance to the writing practice. The Creative Writer graduates initiate new forms of collaboration, since they are experts in reaching out to listeners, contributors, and communities. Through these actions, they redefine the context of the writing discipline, and work from a drive to operate at the centre of society.
The master is firmly embedded in a strong network of European literary organisations, such as the European Association of Creative Writing Programmes (EACWP) and collaborates with literary translators and mentors from the Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA) platform.