Liberal Arts Alliance University

English (Creative Writing)

The English (Creative Writing) is the first-of-its-kind multilingual, transdisciplinary Masters’ programme in India. The course is taught by faculty comprising published writers, poets, playwrights, scriptwriters, advertisers, journalists, web-content creators, animation writers, translators from India and abroad.

The primary component of the course comprises of writing workshops and practice sessions under the award-winning professionals and the faculty members. The amalgamation of theoretical considerations, sampling of a wide variety of literature, and exploring each individual’s niche area, are all aimed at creating individuals who are ready to critically contribute to the creative economy.

Duration Two Years (Four Semesters)

Eligibility

Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 50% marks aggregate & candidate must read English as a compulsory subject.
A relaxation of 5% marks or its equivalent grade may be allowed for those belonging to SC/ST.

Key Features

Immersive learning with a community of writers, poets, playwrights, scriptwriters, advertisers, journalists, web-content creators, animation writers, translators from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Direct lectures, writing workshops, one-on-one guidance on written projects by academic and creative mentors.
Guided internship with award-winning writers and content creators and hands-on experience working with editors at major publishing firms.
Opportunity for University-funded publications at renowned publishing houses.
A range of readings, performances, talks, and workshops by visiting and resident faculty, published writers, and advisors in the writing business: literary agents, magazine editors and publishers.
Option for participating in competitive creative writing hackathons.
Opportunity to participate in book-releases and Alliance Literary Festival.
Motivational workshops, time-management sessions, self-management skills (viz-a-viz mindfulness) to overcome writer's block.
The option of an exit point at the end of the first year with a diploma certificate in creative writing.

Career Opportunities Over the course of the Master’s, students get equipped with the tools necessary to bring out a body of creative writing under the guidance of authors, poets, playwrights, allied faculty, and rigorous peer review. Alliance University works in close collaboration with these writers, poets, and translators to give students access to various publishing houses and offer them the opportunity of highlighting their work and to promote it through Alliance Literary Festival (ALF) and associated events organized by the university.

Publishing Houses
Script Writing
Writing Tutors
Advertisement and Media
Gaming Narrative Design
Entertainment Content Writing
Translator
Copy Editors / Proofreader
Copy Writer
Blogger

Communication Consultant
Professional Speech Writer/ Pitch Writer/ Fund Raiser
Lobbyist
Professor
Public Relations Assistants
Lexicographers
Freelance Writer
Content Marketer

Imagination to Ink: M.A. in English (Creative Writing) | Aparna Devarapalli

Crafting Success Stories | M.A. in English (Creative Writing)

Adam Husain

Clarendon Scholar, University of Oxford

Adam Husain is currently a Clarendon Scholar at Christ Church College, University of Oxford. He specialises in the French writer Marcel Proust, as well as contemporary French philosophy. Previous to this, he took a undergraduate degree at Brasenose College, where he graduated with a Congratulatory First Class mark, and then an MSt in Modern Languages at Wadham College. He has many years of experience in teaching, and particularly enjoys working with students on philosophical problems.

Adam Jones

D.Phil., University of Oxford

Dr. Adam Jones is a Heilbronn fellow at the University of Manchester, researching non-commutative algebra and representation theory. He completed DPhil from the University of Oxford after a four-year undergraduate master's programme in mathematics from Queen Mary University of London.

Linqing Zhu

D.Phil., University of Oxford

Linqing Zhu is a D.Phil. candidate of Oxford university. She pursued a B.A. in English literature in Tsinghua University and a MSt in Oriental Studies at Oxford, funded by Ertegun Scholarship. Her current project, funded by Clarendon Scholarship, is entitled “Landscape of the Heart: Literary, Calligraphic and Pictorial Traditions in Contemporary Chinese Cinema”. Apart from her research, she taught various classes of Chinese art in Oxford, and is interested in literature and art from different cultural traditions.

FACULTY RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Alliance reimagines the idea of the university by creating a community that leads the charge against the complex challenges of the 21st century. The university conceives research to be the essence of all teaching and learning practices. A unity between research and teaching is promoted to extend the frontiers of knowledge in order to solve real world problems at the local, national, and global scale. For this purpose, the university seeks to be the nerve centre of interaction between the industry, the government, the civil society, and the community at large.

Publications

2237

Journal Articles

1143

Conference / In Proceedings

522

Books / Chapters

312

Patents

101

Other

235

WHY ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY?

Alliance is private university established in Karnataka State by Act No.34 of year 2010 and is recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi that reimagines the idea of the university by creating a community that leads the charge against the complex challenges of the 21st century. A designed convergence of the business, engineering, law, and liberal arts units’ precipitates transdisciplinarity as the core academic philosophy. Freely working across divergent streams of knowledge like data science and economics, technology and law, physics and philosophy or businesses and rhetoric, transdisciplinarity nurtures a dynamic foundation for the spirit of collaboration, inquiry, and enterprise.