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Creative writing courses in the Nordics

Courses ranging from evening classes and short, focussed courses to full-time university programmes reflect a broad interest in studying creative writing in the Nordic countries.

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Interest in creative writing has grown rapidly in the Nordic countries since 2000, and today a large selection of courses are available. Several universities offer two-year, full-time courses in advanced creative writing, and some folk high schools offer reputable one-year courses. At a less intensive level, there is a large number of public and private institutions which offer part-time courses in creative writing in the evenings, at weekends or during the summer. These courses usually specialise in specific genres, e.g. poetry or short stories, and are sometimes aimed at particular sectors of the general public, e.g. teenagers or the partially sighted.

Generally speaking, students on short courses participate with the sole intention of learning to express themselves more effectively. Students taking university courses, on the other hand, often become professional writers. Full-time programmes give these students the opportunity to practise their art, and are in this respect similar to the established tradition among students of music, theatre and the visual arts.

Litterär gestaltning , at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and Forfatterskolen in Copenhagen are two of Scandinavia’s most prestigious creative writing courses, where some of the students have been published before starting and well-known authors are among their lecturers. Lund University, Sweden, offers a Master’s degree in creative writing. Forfatterstudiet in Bø, Norway, offers a one-year course. Aschehoug, one of the largest publishing houses in Norway, have their own writing school, although some critics have expressed concern that these students may be trained in a style designed to suit Aschehoug’s particular publishing ethos. In Finland, Työväen Akatemia (Worker’s Academy) offers a one-year course in collaboration with Oxford’s Ruskin College, and Åbo Akademi University offers a two-year course.

Publishing houses report that the booming interest in creative writing has increased the number of scripts they are receiving and the quality of writing generally.

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22 Best universities for Creative Writing in Sweden

Updated: February 29, 2024

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Below is a list of best universities in Sweden ranked based on their research performance in Creative Writing. A graph of 64.8K citations received by 5.29K academic papers made by 22 universities in Sweden was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

Please note that our approach to subject rankings is based on scientific outputs and heavily biased on art-related topics towards institutions with computer science research profiles.

1. Lund University

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2. Umea University

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3. Stockholm University

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4. University of Gothenburg

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5. Linkoping University

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6. Uppsala University

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7. Karolinska Institute

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8. Linnaeus University

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9. Orebro University

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10. Lulea University of Technology

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11. Malmo University

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12. KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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13. Mid Sweden University

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14. Karlstad University

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15. Sodertorn University College

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16. Jonkoping University

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17. Malardalen University

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18. Boras University College

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19. Chalmers University of Technology

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20. Halmstad University

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21. Dalarna University

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22. University College West

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The best cities to study Creative Writing in Sweden based on the number of universities and their ranks are Lund , Umea , Stockholm , and Gothenburg .

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Course 30 credits • LUFM11

Study period: autumn semester 2024 Type of studies: part time, 50 %, mixed Study period: 2024-09-02 – 2025-06-08 Language of instruction: Swedish Application code: LU-19150

Teachers: Joakim Forsberg, Åsa Kraft, Carola Mikaelsson

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Please note that Swedish is not a requirement to take this course.

English is the most important language in our part of the world for communication between people with different language backgrounds. This is especially true of the academic world, where papers and articles are commonly written in English. English is also the dominant language on the Internet and in movies, TV, music and computer games.

Those who master the rules of written, academic English generally have great advantages in their professional lives, as well as in their academic studies and in various other situations. If you choose to take this course, you already have considerable experience of academic studies and have perhaps already started writing in English within your area of expertise.

Course description (Written proficiency and academic writing)

In this course you practise your ability to express yourself in academic English within various genres. In particular, we practice how to reflect on different writing scenarios within the academy – both in terms of disciplinary conventions and academic genres. The main focus of the course is on the academic essay or paper, but you will also be discussing academic writing in general and other academic genres more specifically.

Generally speaking, you have the opportunity to influence what you do and write about in this course to a certain degree. We take your individual needs into consideration, since we want this course to be beneficial to anyone who takes it.

One component of the course consists of grammar workshops and practical grammar exercises. The grammar part is examined through a written take-home exam. The rest of the course focuses more explicitly on academic writing and what you need to pay attention to and learn in order to produce better academic texts.

For the main part of the course, you will be working on short assignments where you reflect on, and produce, academic text. You will receive feedback from your instructor or your fellow students before you hand in all assignments in a portfolio at the end of the course. Your portfolio will be graded by the teacher.

The language of instruction is English.

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After this course you will be ready for the challenges involved in writing academic essays, papers, and theses in English. You will also be better prepared for all other situations in which correct written English is expected.

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Entry requirements.

General eligibility and at least 60 credits in other subjects than English, and English course 6/B.

Selection criteria

English language requirements.

Most of Lund University’s programmes require English Level 6 (unless otherwise stated under 'Entry requirements'). This is the equivalent of an overall IELTS score of 6.5 or a TOEFL score of 90. There are several ways to prove your English language proficiency – check which proof is accepted at the University Admissions in Sweden website. All students must prove they meet English language requirements by the deadline, in order to be considered for admission.

How to prove your English proficiency – universityadmissions.se

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Check if there are any country-specific eligibility rules for you to study Bachelor's or Master's studies in Sweden:

Country-specific requirements for Bachelor's studies – universityadmissions.se

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Start Spring Semester 2024

Mixed-time Lund, part time 25%

In English, distance learning

No mandatory meetings

Study period

15 January 2024 - 2 June 2024

Application

You can only apply for this course in the 'Swedish student' application round. Find out more: Applying for studies – when to apply

Start Autumn Semester 2024

2 September 2024 - 19 January 2025

Start Spring Semester 2025

20 January 2025 - 8 June 2025

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  • Rank your programme/course choices in order of preference and submit them before the  application deadline .

Step 2: Submit documents

  • Read about how to document your eligibility and how to submit your documents at the University Admissions in Sweden website. Follow any country-specific document rules for Master's studies or Bachelor's studies Country-specific requirements for Bachelor's studies – universityadmissions.se Country-specific requirements for Master's studies – universityadmissions.se  
  • Get all your documents ready: - official transcripts and high school diploma (Bachelor's applicants) - official transcripts and degree certificate or proof that you are in the final year of your Bachelor's (Master's applicants) - passport/ID (all applicants) and - proof of English proficiency (all applicants).  
  • Prepare  programme-specific documents  if stated in the next paragraph on this webpage.
  • Upload or send  all  required documents to University Admissions before the  document deadline .
  • Pay the application fee (if applicable – refer to the section below on this webpage) before the  document deadline .

* Note that the process is different if you are applying as an exchange student or as a part of a cooperation programme (such as Erasmus+). * If you have studied your entire Bachelor's programme in Sweden and all of your academic credits are in Ladok, you do not have to submit transcripts or your diploma when applying for a Master's programme.  However, there may still be other documents you need to submit! See the link below.  *  Svensk student?  Läs instruktionerna om att söka till ett internationellt masterprogram på lu.se

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Non-eu/eea citizens.

Full programme/course tuition fee: SEK 14 375

First payment: SEK 14 375

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Citizens of a country outside of the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland are required to pay tuition fees. You pay one instalment of the tuition fee in advance of each semester.

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If you are required to pay tuition fees, you are generally also required to pay an application fee of SEK 900 when you apply at the University Admissions in Sweden website. You pay one application fee regardless of how many programmes or courses you apply to.

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Lund university global scholarship programme.

The Lund University Global Scholarship programme is a merit-based and selective scholarship targeted at top academic students from countries outside the EU/EEA.

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Research shows AI can boost creativity for some, but at a cost

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Researchers found that AI could increase the creativity of individual writers, but it also led to many similar stories.

Researchers found that AI could increase the creativity of individual writers, but it also led to many similar stories. Moor Studio/Getty Images hide caption

Can an AI chatbot make a person more creative?

Supporters of artificial intelligence say it can serve as a muse, but critics doubt it — they say that it does little more than remix existing work.

Now, new research suggests that elements of both arguments are right. AI might be able to help a person become more creative, but it risks decreasing creativity in society overall.

'New' ideas

Questions have swirled around the use of AI in art since large language models (also known as LLMs) burst on the scene almost two years ago. Companies such as OpenAI have touted their products as tools that artists could use to increase their output. While some writers say they’ve embraced AI as a tool in their creative process , many other artists and creators have expressed skepticism. Some have even sued , alleging that the tools use copyrighted work for training purposes.

Oliver Hauser, an economist at the University of Exeter in the UK who studies artificial intelligence, wanted to try and answer the basic question of whether AI could increase creativity.

“It does have a sort of incredible ability to sort of come up with content at the click of a button,” he says. On the other hand, AI can often produce stories that are similar in nature.

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“It could be that it’s not as creative as you might think, and it doesn’t help you be more creative,” he says.

To try and get some hard data on this squishy question of creativity, Hauser teamed up with Anil Doshi at the University College London School of Management. They recruited nearly 300 people, who Doshi says did not identify as professional writers. “We asked them to write a short, eight-sentence story,” he says.

Around one-third of the writers had to come up with ideas on their own, while others were given starter ideas generated by the chatbot ChatGPT 4.0. Those that got help were divided into two subgroups: one that got a single AI-generated idea, and one that got to choose from up to five.

Crucially, Doshi says, both the human-only and AI-assisted groups had to write the stories themselves.

“Our intention was to focus on whether AI can help human creativity,” Doshi says. “This was not a horse race between AI versus humans.”

The results were judged by a group of 600 evaluators. They were asked to grade each story on its “novelty” and “usefulness.” Novelty was a proxy for the story’s originality, while usefulness was a measure of whether the story was high enough quality to be published.

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We asked the new AI to do some simple rocket science. It crashed and burned

The results, published today in the journal Science Advances, found that stories written with AI help were deemed both more novel and useful. Writers who had access to one AI idea did better, but those who had access to five ideas saw the biggest boost — they wrote stories seen as around 8% more novel than humans on their own, and 9% more useful. 

What’s more, Doshi says, the worst writers benefited the most.

“Those that were the least inherently creative, experienced the largest improvement in their creativity,” he says.

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New tools help artists fight AI by directly disrupting the systems

So AI really does appear to make people more creative. But there’s a plot twist: When Hauser and Doshi looked at all the stories, they found a different effect.

“Collectively speaking, there was a smaller diversity of novelty in the group that had AI,” Hauser says.

The social dilemma

In other words, the chatbot made each individual more creative, but it made the group that had AI help less creative.

Hauser describes the divergent result as a “classic social dilemma” — a situation where people benefit individually, but the group suffers.

“We do worry that, at large scale, if many people are using this… overall the diversity and creativity in the population will go down,” he says

Annalee Newitz, a science fiction author and journalist , questions the findings. Trying to quantify whether a person is more creative is tricky: “I think that part of creativity is that it can’t really be measured in percentages like that,” Newitz says.

Nevertheless, when Newitz tried reproducing some of the AI story ideas themselves using the paper’s methods, they clearly saw how using AI would generate similar stories.

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Enhance! HORNK! Artificial intelligence can now ID individual geese

For example, when asked to produce story ideas for an “adventure on the open seas,” they found AI would often incorporate the clichéd idea of finding treasure into the story. And it seemed to latch onto the phrase “the real treasure was…” — which is a common internet meme . Because AI is trained on a huge number of texts, Newitz says, it seems reasonable that it would draw from those frequently-used clichés first.

Newitz also says the social dilemma warned about in the study has already hit the sci-fi community. Last year the sci-fi magazine Clarkesworld had to close online submissions because “they were flooded with AI-written stories.”

In the end, Newitz says that they wouldn’t blame anyone who wanted to try using AI to write a story. But ultimately, they think these tools miss the point of writing.

Creative writing is “humans communicating with other humans,” Newitz says. “Even if something is badly written — even if it’s not very creative — if it’s written by a human, then it’s fulfilling its purpose.”

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Iowa english professor donika kelly receives national endowment for the arts fellowship.

By Katie Linder

Award-winning poet and University of Iowa English faculty member Donika Kelly is one of 36 writers to receive a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship for 2023.  

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Kelly, an accomplished poet, is the author of The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf book award in poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

Kelly says she was both shocked and grateful when she received the news of her award.

“Like many writers, I've applied to the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for many cycles, and I didn't expect this year to be different from the others. I'm grateful to have the support of the NEA in funding a year of research for my next poetry collection, and I've felt the borders of my imagination stretch toward further and new horizons,” she says.  

With the support of the fellowship, Kelly will be able to focus on writing, research, travel, and career development. This highly competitive award drew more than 1,900 applications and is selected through an anonymous review process.

Kelly joined the faculty at Iowa in 2020 after previously teaching at the City University of New York’s Baruch College. She earned an MFA in writing from the Michener Center for Writers and a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University.

She says the University of Iowa has been tremendously beneficial to her writing life.

“My colleagues are generous, rigorous artists and scholars whose commitment to excellence buoys my own,” Kelly explains. “The university has also provided generous research support that has allowed me to seek out new collaborators and gather new materials and experiences for my third manuscript, currently in progress.”

Kelly teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City with her wife, fellow author, and professor, Melissa Febos, who were both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2022.

Since 1967, the NEA has awarded more than 3,600 Creative Writing Fellowships totaling more than $57 million. Many American recipients of the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and Fiction were recipients of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships early in their careers.

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Rice professor’s memoir secures spot in nyt’s ‘100 best books of the 21st century’, award-winning ‘heavy’ by kiese laymon was released in 2018.

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When Kiese Laymon got a message from his editor Tuesday directing him to the New York Times, the author and Rice University professor said he was “beyond shocked” to find his “ Heavy: An American Memoir ” at No. 60 of the publication’s “ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century .”

“I found out with everyone else,” said Laymon, the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English. “Then to see it next to ‘Middlesex’ and my friend Hua Hsu’s book ‘Stay True’ and Morrison’s ‘Mercy’ was just wild.”

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

In “Heavy,” Laymon candidly explores his tumultuous upbringing in Jackson, Mississippi, navigating complex relationships with his mother and family, as well as his own struggles with identity and weight. Through a deeply personal narrative, he confronts societal failures and the challenges of love and freedom, offering an insightful reflection on his journey over 25 years

Laymon is no stranger to national attention. He was named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow, and “Heavy” has previously been recognized with the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose and the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media. The New York Times also named it one of the “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years,” but Laymon said this latest acknowledgement hits differently.

“It’s hard to actually talk about because the time they’re looking at is a quarter century,” Laymon said. “I’ve won awards before for a year or maybe a decade, never ever a century.”

To develop its list, the New York Times Book Review and the Upshot polled hundreds of celebrated authors and “literary luminaries” including Stephen King , Min Jin Lee , Karl Ove Knausgaard , Bonnie Garmus , Curtis Sittenfeld , R. L. Stine , Nana Kwame Adjei‑Brenyah , Junot Díaz , Sarah Jessica Parker , Anthony Doerr , James Patterson , Stephen Graham Jones , Elin Hilderbrand , Annette Gordon‑Reed , Rebecca Roanhorse , Marlon James , Roxane Gay , Jonathan Lethem , Sarah MacLean , Riley Sager , Ed Yong , Pico Iyer , Thomas Chatterton Williams , Paul Tremblay , Nick Hornby and more.

“We in the School of Humanities are aware of the profound impact Kiese’s work has had on readers and critics alike, but this newest honor recognizes the unique power of his literary voice and its very wide reach,” said Dean Kathleen Canning. “It is deeply gratifying to see his talent honored in this way. Kiese is an exceptional force in our growing creative writing program. This recognition of his work shines a national spotlight on the arts and the humanities at Rice.”

Laymon, whose fall 2024 course offerings such as “Verses/Versus: 2017 vs. 2023” already boast a double-digit waitlist, said he’s prepared if this recognition results in increased interest in his classes.

“I love teaching at Rice, and if this means longer waitlists, that’s a good thing,” said Laymon, who expressed gratitude to the writers, readers and critics who felt something when they read “Heavy.” “Now, back to the lab to make sure that these next two books I have coming out next year aren’t terrible.”

Those books, “Good God” and “City Summer, Country Summer,” will add to his catalog, joining the genre-bending novel “Long Division” and the essay collection “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.”

Learn more about Laymon here .

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