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MA Creative Writing

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    MA 1 year full-time, 2-3 years part-time

Course Description

Would you love to see your name in print? Are you curious about the creative industries? Or maybe there’s a poem or novel in you that’s waiting to come out?

You will be supported to develop your creative work, and learn about the process of writing and publishing from expert staff who are published poets and authors themselves.

We will explore contemporary poetry, fiction and hybrid forms of writing (which cross genres), as well as building on your own critical writing skills. This broad analysis of technique and form will put you in a strong position to pursue a career in writing and the creative arts.

We also offer placements and internships to enhance your professional experience in sectors including publishing, marketing, charity, journalism, theatre, teaching, museums and heritage, events and libraries. Placements are flexible; you choose the duration and number of hours that best fit around your studies and other commitments.

Entry Requirements

2:1 (or international equivalent)

Applicants will be asked to submit an example of their written work. You will be contacted by the University with full details of how to submit this.

The School of English welcomes writers of poetry, fiction, or a combination of the two. In reading the writing samples, we are looking for work that indicates that its author would be able to succeed on the course. There is no restriction on the subject matter of the writing sample. We only require that it is your own work.

You will be asked for either:

  • no more than 3,000 words of prose fiction (this could be one story, a group of stories, or an extract from a longer piece)
  • five poems

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Our graduates have moved into a diverse range of careers, working as:

  • Teachers and lecturers
  • Copywriters
  • Journalists
  • Communications officers
  • Editors
  • Digital marketers
  • Proofreaders

Module Details

Core modules

  • Creative Writing Conventions and Techniques
  • Writing Workshop: Fiction
  • Learning to Read: Criticism for Creative Writers
  • Writing Workshop: Poetry
  • Practice and Practitioners
  • Dissertation

Option Module

  • Riotous Performance: Drama, Disruption and Protest
  • Consciousness in Fiction
  • Dramatic Discourse
  • Literary Histories
  • Modernism and the Avant-Garde in Literature and Drama
  • The History of the Book: 1200-1600
  • Middle English Romance
  • Learning to Publish: Contemporary Forms & Practices
  • Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Screen
  • Cognition and Literature
  • Textualities: Defining, making and using text
  • Poetry: Best words, Best Order
  • Literary Linguistics 1

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