IELTS Academic 6.5 or 7.0, This must include a minimum of 5.5 in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
TOEFL Ibt, This must include a total of 75, to include a minimum 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking, and 17 in Writing.
PTE Level C1, Our postgraduate courses have differing requirements depending on the course. For specific information please see the course webpage.
For courses requiring IELTS 6.5, the PTE required score is 58 overall with at least 51 in each of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
For courses requiring IELTS 7.0, the PTE required score is 67 overall with at least 62 in each of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
LanguageCert International ESOL,We accept the LanguageCert International ESOL with an overall B2 Communicator Pass or High Pass (depending on the course)
This Creative Writing course is for writers for children of all ages, from the picture-book age through to young adult (YA). Prose fiction is likely to be the main area studied, but you'll have the chance to look at writing in all forms, including poetry, picture book texts and narrative non-fiction for young people.
The course supports you to create a significant body of writing, with practical plans for its place in the real world of publishing. It is based on the principle that most writers learn and benefit from working closely with their fellow writers, in a disciplined, supportive setting, and with tutors who are practising and published writers in their field. Most of our students aim to complete a novel by the end of the MA.
The writing workshop is at the heart of the course. With tutors and your fellow writers in a workshop setting, you'll learn to see your work through objective eyes and to think clearly about the different strategies you might adopt. You'll learn from each other’s mistakes and successes, as well as your own. You'll be urged to try things out, take risks and experiment, and reflect on and discuss the writing process. The context modules help you to see your own writing in the wider context of published children’s writing. The course encourages you to read widely and analytically.
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Course structure
This course includes or offers the following modules. Please check the course handbook or definitive programme document for full details on which modules are core, required or optional.
Writing Workshop One: Writing for Young People
Context Module One: Writing for Young People: Forms, Ages and Stages
Writing Workshop Two: Writing for Young People
Writing for Young People: Contemporary Children’s Publishing
The Manuscript (double module).
Graduates have achieved publication deals with a range of different mainstream and smaller publishers, including Andersen Press, Bloomsbury, Chicken House, Egmont, Faber & Faber, Gullane, Hot Key Books, Nosy Crow, Orion, Oxford University Press, Penguin, Quercus, Scholastic, Simon and Schuster, Templar and Walker Books. Many more students have secured literary agents and are likely to secure publication deals in the future.
Some students who have performed well on the MA and have published work have subsequently taught Creative Writing at the University. Some have taught creative writing for other institutions. Some have combined their writing with subsequent careers in journalism, writing for magazines, teaching of different kinds, publishing or television.
Books published by graduates from this course include:
Ways to Live Forever, Sally Nicholls
Frost Hollow Hall, Emma Carroll
The Snow Merchant, Sam Gayton
Sky Hawk, Gill Lewis
Stolen Lucy Christopher
The Year of the Rat, Clare Furniss
Stone Rider, David Hofmeyr
Shrunk, Fleur Hitchcock
Sweet Pizza, Giancarlo Gemin.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
