The Master’s in Texts and Creative Writing is a training programme for students who want to become writing professionals in the future. It is aimed primarily at young writers and any students wishing to make their artistic approach more professional through their writing, by exposing them to other writers, publishers and renowned literary professionals, by informing them and by expanding their knowledge and skills. Different theoretical and historical aspects are also emphasized in the courses given at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). In considering writing and its different manifestations throughout history as an important form of human expression, and the literature of different continents as an art form in its own right within the field of contemporary artistic practice, this Master’s programme takes an open approach to the production, reflection and teaching of writing in a new world in the making. For two years, the project on the basis of which the student is admitted will benefit from regular supervision by other students and teachers through critical and reasoned readings, and from a special system of tutoring provided by writers, publishers and artists. The preferred form of work is the book in all its aspects, without excluding other forms of public expression in dialogue with the visual or performing arts. 

Pedagogical coordination

Gilles Collard

Pedagogical staff

Teachers

Caroline De Mulder and John Jefferson Selve

Assistant

Camille de Jerphanion

Speakers 2023-2024

Gérard Berréby, Théo Casciani, Louise Chennevière, Camille de Toledo, Yves-Noël Genod, Donatien Grau and Joana Preiss

Speakers from previous years

Jakuta Alikavazovic, Mathias Augustyniak, Boris Bergmann, Gérard Berréby, Léa Bismuth, Antoine Boute, Théo Casciani, Emanuele Coccia, Philippe Di Folco, Vincent Dieutre, Jean-Marie Durand, Camille de Toledo, Marcelline Delbecq, Pierre Ducrozet, Mathias Enard, Fabrice Gabriel, Jérôme Game, Yves-Noël Genod, Donatien Grau, Yannick Haenel, Maud Joiret, Caroline Lamarche, Stéphane Lambert, Jean-Charles Massera, Joana Preiss, Pierre Rousseau, John Jefferson Selve, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Oriol Vilanova, Antoine Wauters.

To enrol, go to the ‘Institutional and Administrative Information’ tab and then click ‘Enrolment’. 

A few special points regarding the Master’s in Texts and Creative Writing:

The pre-enrolment file must include the following information for teachers (in addition to the administrative documents required by the school): 

- A motivation letter

- Extracts from previously written and/or published texts

- A review of a book published in the 21st century (max. 3,500 characters)

- A review of a book published before the 21st century (max. 3,500 characters)

- A description of a book in progress or planned, along with the first few pages (must not be a screenplay, play, illustration or graphic novel)