Screenwriting (Taught)

This MA in Screenwriting from LJMU invites you to explore your creative potential, by giving you the creative space to develop as a writer.

• Next intake is September 2026

• Develop your own original voice to create challenging and innovative TV and feature film ideas

• Learn key industry-skills within a professional writers’ room environment

• Produce a substantial screenwriting portfolio to industry standard

• Be taught by highly experienced professionals who have collaborated with such scriptwriters as Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey) and Peter Morgan (The Crown) amongst others. Read more about Richard Monks on IMDB

• Benefit from Liverpool’s reputation as a world-leading hub for TV and film production.

• Experience masterclasses from top visiting industry professionals

• Forge links with award-winning production companies

With the focus on current professional practice within the TV & Film industry, as well as learning scriptwriting theory, this course will encourage you to develop an original voice, pursue challenging and innovative methods of storytelling, engage in research and development, and view your work in the context of the marketplace. Sessions include lectures, screenings, practical exercises, workshops, specialist visiting lectures and masterclasses.

The course emphasises the development of practical screenwriting skills and the production of a portfolio of work, developed to the highest professional standards. You will gain an understanding of professional practice, pitching and marketing screenplays and learn to critically analyse films and screen texts.

To cater for the wide-ranging content of our courses and the varied learning preferences of our students, we offer a range of assessment methods on each programme.

Knowledge and understanding are assessed through coursework (creative and analytical), in written, oral and electronic form. The effectiveness with which you organise your time has a direct bearing on the quality of your work and this is, therefore, indirectly assessed in every exercise.

Other assessment methods used on the programme include: workshops, creative pitches and presentations, critical commentaries and screenwriting tasks.