MA Creative Writing (Online)

A bachelors degree of 2.2 or above in English, creative writing or a similar discipline. Other relevant experience, such as a post-experience or professional qualification, including international qualifications, are considered on an individual basis. An IELTS score of 6.5 is required.

You must submit a portfolio of your creative writing of up to 2,000 words in any one or two forms or genres, for example poetry, prose fiction or life writing. Please include this in your online application.

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MA Creative Writing graduates go on to a wide choice of professions and careers. Apart from the more obvious routes of publishing, editing and freelance writing, many work in the wider creative industries (television, journalism, new media) or in workplaces that require advanced writing skills.

Creative Writing Project

Explore and develop key skills and techniques, investigate creative-critical approaches to writing, creative writing processes, reflective practice and core skills for working independently. You develop a writing project proposal outlining your key aims and objectives, approaches and context for your writing project, including a proposed bibliography. You plan and complete this project independently, with some guidance from an assigned supervisor. You develop this into a final portfolio of creative writing in your chosen form and genre, with an accompanying critical-reflective commentary.

Creative-Critical Writing: Your Writing Manifesto

You experiment with form, develop your understanding of the relationship between creative and critical writing, and explore your motivations, inspirations and aspirations as a writer. You explore a range of texts that move between forms and modes, and examine key ideas about texts that have paved the way for your writing, why you write, and the topics that are important to you.

New Perspectives in Creative Writing

You consider the wider context of contemporary creative writing: publishing models, prize culture and reviewing. Through a series of case studies and critical readings, you expand your knowledge of the contemporary publishing landscape and consider the contexts and publication routes for your own creative writing. You gain the knowledge and skills needed to write reviews and essays, and understand routes to publication, including how to pitch to relevant publications.

The Professional Writer in the World

You consider and frame your writing within contemporary contexts, exploring the many ways and contexts in which writers work, such as residencies, commissions and public art. You gain the knowledge and skills needed to market, publish and self-publish your writing across a wide variety of platforms.

Writing and the Self