The Universitat de València organises annually the workshops of Aula Oberta of creative writing with the goal of promoting writing the creation between university students and among the public in general. The offer of workshops includes the next genres: narrative, theatre, poetry and script of short film. The workshops, with a level of initiation, are taught by specialists in each of the genres and the methodology is practical and participative.

Aula Oberta of creative writing is a programme promoted by the Student Council Branch and organised and managed by the Sedi. It counts with the collaboration of the Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Society (Poetry Club, Literature Club, Performing Arts Club and Cinema Club).

Enrolment is open, each course, during the month of September and the workshops will be developed from October to December.
 

Workshops academic year 2025-2026

The 20th edition of Aula Oberta offers four workshops to initiate in the world of creative writing. The workshops are on-site and are taught by professionals in each of the modalities: poetry, narrative, script of short film and theatre. Independently of the language of teaching of the workshop, students can talk either in Valencian or Spanish as the communication and creation language.

Recipients

Undergraduate degree, master's degree or doctorate students of the Universitat de València.

Dates and Venue

• From October 13th to December 18th 2025.
• Espai Vives (first floor, aula 1A.02).

Duration

22 on-site hours (an afternoon per week depending on the chosen workshop).

Price

Each workshop has the public price of 38,57 €. This price must be paid when doing the enrolment through credit or debit card.

Academic recognition and certification

The workshops of the Aula Oberta have an academic recognition of 1 credit ECTS. To obtain the certificate it is necessary to assist, at least, to the 80% of the on-site sessions, realise the proposed exercises by the professors and actively participate in the workshops. The non-attendance will have to be justified with a document.

Enrollment procedure

The enrolment of the courses of Aula Oberta is done through the Online Office of the Universitat de València. For each workshop there are 22 hours covered by rigorous order of registration.

• Registration dates: from 8 September to 8 October, 2025.

• Registration form access in the Online Office UV (available when the enrolment period is open).

Teaching staff and workshops programme

Other information of interest

Justified withdrawal from the enrolment of a workshop. It is possible to do a justified withdrawal from the enrolment of a workshop and get a refund of 75% of the paid price. For this, before 3 October, 2025, a refund request must be presented, with the indication of the withdrawal reasons, through a general instance in the Electronic Register of the University. The bank data from the applying person must be attached through any document that proves the ownership or co-ownership of the account where the refund will be received, as well as indicating the receipt number. At that same moment, the next things must be selected: 

• Type of addressed body: University, General and Central Services  

• Addressed body: Information and Promotion Service for Students 

• Wished administrative process: General Application 

Cancellation of workshops. Those workshops that do not reach the minimum of participants could be cancelled according to the organisation criteria. In this case, the enrolled people in the cancelled activity can change the enrolment to another workshop (if there are available places) or obtain a refund of the enrolment price.

Queries? Write to us to aulaoberta@uv.es. Any queries sent during the month of August will not be assisted until September