This is the Prose Fiction workshop, the core of the Prose Fiction MA, and runs for 12 weeks in the autumn semester and 12 weeks in the spring semester. The sessions are three hours long and take place on Tuesday afternoons (2-5pm). Each week work (up to 5,000 words) from three students is discussed. This discussion is led by the tutor, however careful and informed contribution from the rest of the class is fundamental. Over the two semesters everyone will have around six opportunities to have their work discussed. Key and topical issues of theme and craft will be addressed and wider reading maybe discussed and suggested. Individual tutorials (of half an hour) are then held for those students who have been workshopped.