Experimental Writing – with Jen Calleja
This course looks at experimental writing in many forms and across many modes and genres of writing. We’ve assumed that you’re not a complete beginner and that you have written in the past or are currently writing.
You might have selected this course because you’ve already been working in experimental modes and want to broaden your toolbox for further experimentation. Or you might be completely new to writing experimentally but have enjoyed reading innovative work. Maybe you just want to break out of old habits with your writing and try something new.
About the tutor
This self-paced course is led by writer Jen Calleja.
Jen Calleja is a poet, writer and essayist who has been widely published, including in The White Review, The London Magazine, and Best British Short Stories (Salt).
She was awarded an Authors’ Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors to work on debut novel Vehicle (Prototype, 2023), which was shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize. Jen’s short story collection I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For was published by Prototype in 2020, and Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode was published by Rough Trade Books in 2024. An excerpt from Fair was Longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Experimentation in Text.
Jen has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize as a literary translator from German into English and was the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library. Jen is co-founding editor of Praspar Press and played and toured in the DIY punk band Sauna Youth.