Join a course taken by many successful published authors and take your creative writing to a professional level.
Our Masters course in Creative Writing will give you the opportunity to improve your writing by practising and sharing it with a close group of fellow writers, including specialist lecturers who are published authors.
You’ll study the most acclaimed writers of the past 200 years and discover the techniques they used to make their work stand out. We’ll give you opportunities to practise your technique in areas such as characterisation, structure and pacing, and experiment with different forms of writing.
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Core modules
Patterns of Story: Fiction and its Forms
Master's Project in Creative Writing
Optional modules (subject to availability)
Workshop: the Short Story
Shakespeare and Society
Twentieth and Twenty First Century Fiction and Social Change
Creativity and Content in Publishing
Workshop: the Novel
Special Topic in Creative Writing/English Literature
The Business of Publishing
Revolution and Reform in the Long Nineteenth Century
Our MA Creative Writing will help you prepare for a career as a creative writer or in related areas such as publishing and the media, but will also give you critical and analytical skills valued by many employers.
Many of our past students (.pdf) have gone on to have successful careers as writers, including Costa Short Story Award 2019 winner Caroline Ward Vine, Kaddy Benyon, Penny Hancock, and Kate Swindlehurst.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
