Creative Writing (Taught)

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The MSt in Creative Writing is a two-year, part-time master's degree course offering a unique combination of high contact hours, genre specialisation, and critical and creative breadth.

The MSt in Creative Writing is a two-year, part-time master's degree course offering a unique combination of high contact hours, genre specialisation, and critical and creative breadth.

The emphasis of the course is cross-cultural and cross-genre, pointing up the needs and challenges of the contemporary writer who produces their creative work in the context of a global writerly and critical community.

Course structure
The first year focuses across genres and includes a significant critical reading and analysis component, which is linked to the writerly considerations explored in each of the genres. In your second year you will specialise in an option area.

The residences in particular offer an intensive workshop and seminar-based forum for the exchange of ideas and opening up of creative and critical frameworks within which to develop writerly and analytical skills. There is a strong element of one-to-one tutorial teaching. Tutorials take place within residences and retreats, and relate to the on-going work produced for the course.

The research placement, a distinguishing feature of the course, provides between one and two weeks' in-house experience of writing in the real world.