Each week, we will engage with examples of “great” global literature to understand the creative traditions they established and trace their influence on the craft of creative writing in the forms of contemporary poems, stories, and essays.

Through these readings, in-class writing exercises, and weekly writing assignments, students will immerse themselves in both the theory and practice of writing poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. The course culminates in a final creative writing project and students will gain experience giving and receiving feedback in the “writing workshop” method of critique. 

Coordinator

Huan Hsu

Timetable

You can find the timetable on Datanose.

Entry requirements

Open to second-year and third-year UvA Bachelor's students and other interested parties, such as contract students or students from other Dutch higher education institutions.

Registration

UvA Bachelor's students can register from 8 to 15 June 2026 in the GLASS registration rounds.

‘Bijvak’ students and contract students can register from 8 June 2026 until two weeks prior to the start of the course, by completing the online registration form.

If you have any trouble while registering, please contact us at keuzeonderwijs-iis@uva.nl.

Please note: as a contract student you can choose to participate either including or excluding assessment. If you choose the latter, you only have access to the seven lectures of the course. If you also wish to attend the seminars, please choose 'including assessment'.

Costs

Prices can be found on the IIS website.

SDGs in education

The IIS strives to reflect current societal issues and challenges in our elective courses, honours modules and degree programmes and attempts to integrate the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in this course. For more information about these goals, please visit the SDGs website.