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Study Details: MA
12 months full time 24 months part time
This course combines creative writing with critical writing. You’ll develop your creative writing in the context of advancing your critical skills and knowledge of English Studies. You’ll also engage with a wide variety of literary genres as both a critical reader and a creative practitioner, with expert guidance from published creative writers and academic researchers.
This Masters degree enables you to reflect critically on and develop creative writing in the context of a broad range of literary genres and critical fields. Supported by teaching staff who are actively engaged in both critical and creative writing, you’ll develop a theoretically informed understanding of the relation between different forms of critical and creative writing.
Throughout the course, you’ll have opportunities to explore areas of personal interest and participate in workshops to hone your skills in diverse forms of writing.
You’ll also produce an independent research project, through which you can specialise in creative or critical writing, or combine both, according to your interests.
The University of Leeds Library is one of the UK’s major academic research libraries. It has extensive holdings to support your studies, including English Literature Collections that have been designated of national and international importance.
Our Special Collections offer a huge range of rare books, manuscripts and art, as well as the archives of poets like Tony Harrison, Geoffrey Hill and Simon Armitage, and literary publications such as Stand and The London Magazine.
Take a 360 tour around our libraries:
Brotherton Library
Laidlaw Library
Edward Boyle Library
Other highlights include materials relating to novelists like Arthur Ransome, Angela Thirkell, Melvyn Bragg and Sophie Hannah, and critics like George Wilson-Knight and Bonamy Dobrée.
The School of English is also home to the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, which brings together the University’s strength and heritage in creative writing. It hosts regular poetry readings by visiting international poets and supports a poetry reading group.
A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) in English Literature or a related subject.
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This course will equip you with advanced transferable skills which are valuable in a wide range of careers.
You’ll be a confident researcher who can work independently as well as within a team. You’ll be a strong communicator, both verbally and in writing, and be able to think critically and analytically. In addition, you’ll have a strong level of cultural and critical awareness, and you’ll be able to look at a situation from different points of view.
All of these qualities are attractive to employers across sectors, and you’ll be well equipped to pursue a career in a wide range of fields depending on your interests. These could include teaching, journalism, publishing, advertising, broadcasting and law. Many of our graduates also progress to PhD-level study and you’ll be in a good position to develop a career in academia. Students from our programmes have gone on to have successful careers as literary agents, journalists and researchers, as well as to become published novelists and award-winning poets.
Year 1 compulsory modules
Approaches to Creative Writing 30
Creative Writing Research Project 60
Year 1 optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)
The Long Poem: Self, Land, Witness 30
So Where do you come from? Selves, Families, Stories 30
Writing Poetry 30
Writing Prose Fiction 30
Caribbean and Black British Writing 30
Romantic Identities: Literary Constructions of the Self, 1789-1821 30
Writing Places and Identities 30
Medical Humanities: Representing Illness, Disability, and Care 30
The Digital & English Studies 30
Postcolonialism, Animals and the Environment 30
Shakespeare’s Tyrants 30
Planetary Aesthetics: Animism, Mimesis and Indigeneity 30
Digital and Intermedial Storytelling 30
Script Development for Film and Television 30
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