Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year / 45 week programme
Full-time study
Writing is a part of the world, not just about it.
At the RCA, we’re not looking for one type of writer. Whether you want to write for a mainstream audience or prepare for doctoral study, we’ll help you build the intellectual, literary, and technical skills you need for your future.
Our students explore a variety of forms and subjects, often blending genres and approaches to create work that is both intellectually rigorous and poetically expressive.
The programme is designed to help you become the best possible version of the writer you want to be. We’ll encourage you to discuss other students’ work, think about what you’re reading, and listen to feedback on your writing.
Not only will you leave the RCA as a better writer, but you’ll also leave us a better thinker. You’ll notice the world and be able to decide the best way to engage with it.
Candidates are selected entirely on merit and applications are welcomed from all over the world. The selection process will consider creativity, imagination and innovation as demonstrated in your portfolio, as well as your potential to benefit from the programme and to achieve high MA standards overall.
Our graduates can be found editing The White Review, or published by Granta, Zero Books, or Fitzcarraldo Editions. They work as editors on publications, or start up their own, or they pursue a career in academia, with our graduates having followed PhDs in Oxford, Manchester, Edinburgh, Goldsmiths, or Birkbeck, and teaching in numerous prestigious institutions, including the Royal College of Art (RCA).
Distance and Proximity (15 credits)
Attention (15 credits)
Publics and Counterpublics (15 credits)
AcrossRCA (30 credits)
The Practical Past (15 credits)
How to Live Together (15 credits)
Urgency of the Arts (15 credits)
Independent Research Project (60 credits)
Ranked for twelve consecutive years as the world’s number 1 art & design university*, the Royal College of Art’s postgraduate programmes enable yo...
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