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Course description
On this eight-week course you’ll explore how experimentation and boundary-pushing can bring new possibilities and energy to your writing, all within a supportive and positive environment. Each week you’ll focus on an aspect of experimental fiction by discussing readings from rule-bending texts, while playful, stimulating writing exercises will inspire you in new directions. You’ll also workshop your writing, encouraging you to develop, and innovate in, your own work.
About the tutor
Jen Calleja's most recent books include Vehicle (a Granta Book of the Year 2023), Fair: The Life-Art of Translation (a Guardian Book of the Day, July 2025), Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode (5-starred review, The Telegraph) and the long poem Dust Sucker (first published in full in The White Review). Her short stories, creative non-fiction and poetry have appeared in Best British Short Stories (Salt), The London Magazine, Ambit, and elsewhere, and she has been shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize and longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Experiment in Text. She has translated over twenty works of German-language literature into English and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 for her translation of Marion Poschmann's The Pine Islands. Her books have been translated into French and German, and her short story 'The Natural' was adapted into an award-winning short film by the actor Charlie Rowe (Jay Kelly; Wolf Hall). She teaches creative writing at Goldsmiths and for the Granta Writers' Workshop. Photo: Jorge Antony Stride