Creative Writing (Taught)

Focus on the craft of writing on a postgraduate course designed help you develop your skills, experiment with form and explore a variety of genres.

Our MA Creative Writing course has a long and proud history of graduate success, with many of our students continuing on to careers as published writers.

You will learn from one of the most established and experienced Creative Writing teams in the UK, comprised of practising and published poets, short story writers, novelists, non-fiction writers and screenwriters.

We believe in creating a community of writers who can support and learn from one another. Our specialist workshopping sessions give you the confidence to discuss you work, receive feedback, and reflect on your own work by helping others.

On this course you will:

• Develop your writing skills in your chosen genre or genres.

• Learn from our expert staff, who are all practicing and published writers.

• Gain the confidence to share and discuss you own work with peers and tutors.

• Experience regular readings from guest writers.

• Meet and talk with agents and editors at our annual publishing panel.

Course Modules

Learn the craft of creative writing from practicing and published writers
Our MA Creative Writing course focuses on writing as a craft. It provides you a strong platform to develop your writing, as you experiment with the wide range of possibilities available to the contemporary writer.

You will have the opportunity to develop your skills in writing prose fiction (the novel or short story), poetry, creative non-fiction (biography, autobiography, memoir, travel), film scripts or drama for the stage or radio.

You may want to work on one project, such as a novel, throughout the course, or you may wish to explore different genres; the course allows for both options.

This list is indicative and subject to change.

The course is comprised of four taught modules and a dissertation.