MA Creative Writing

Duration

1 year full-time / 2 years part-time

Institution code

L28

UCAS Code

N/A

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Students during a workshop

Creative Writing studio library corner

Students in the studio

Books in the studio

Students during Light Night visit

Course Leader and students

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Students during a workshop

The Course

This course positions the writer as a creative practitioner. Our guiding focus is the creative act of writing, and developing your creative insight through critical exploration.

You will be supported to discover or develop your writerly voice, whether you are a recent graduate, aspirational or established writer. This course supports those seeking opportunity to advance their craft and collaborate with peers within a multidisciplinary environment. You will be supported to produce an extended creative writing project, alongside peers working across literary forms.

Underpinned by workshops covering prose, poetry and scriptwriting, you will explore craft and technique, deepening your practice through exploration across discipline, form and genre. You will evidence that which is valuable to your ongoing creative development, to interrogate the breadth and depth of your individual literary tradition. In keeping with the arts university setting, you will engage with experimental and hybrid writing forms, as well as explore collaborative opportunities with practitioners across multiple creative disciplines.

Mirroring the creative process of ideation, development, and revision, you will develop your creative practice and engage with research methodologies. You will be supported to develop creative and critical skills with regular sharing and feedback workshops.

With an emphasis on the intersection between creative practice and critical thinking, the course develops key skills in drafting and redrafting, editing, and articulation of creative intent. You will refine your writerly voice while building the ability to critically reflect on your work, experiment across forms and genres, and situate your practice within contemporary literary contexts.

The course enables you to consider the range of roles available to writing specialists, across the creative industries, academia, and the digital media sector, with focus on content development, editing, pitching, problem solving, project management and self advocation.

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The Structure

Our postgraduate courses include both specialist subject modules and transdisciplinary core modules. Both are underpinned by independent learning. You will be supported with a variety of teaching and learning methods, including individual supervision, group tutorials, live briefs and project proposals, as well as being encouraged to collaborate with students from other postgraduate courses.

Our academic staff are engaged in contemporary practice in their specialism and will support, encourage and challenge you during your studies. All postgraduate students are taught together in research methods and business-related modules. Postgraduate courses can be studied either full-time over one academic year or part-time over two academic years. Teaching is broken down into three teaching blocks per year.

Specialist Resources

Students are able to access a range of specialist facilities by arrangement. These include Mac suites with industry-standard equipment, and our library with curated specialist resources including our special collections.