Creative Writing

Our PGCert and MA in Creative Writing provides a unique opportunity to explore and develop your creative writing skills through practise, revision and discussion.

Our Creative Writing master's develops your understanding and awareness of your own writing and your technical writing skills.

You'll further your awareness of:
writing processes
professional writing
publishing

This PGCert and MA in Creative Writing provide a unique opportunity to explore and develop your creative writing skills. We teach creative writing in three areas:
prose writing, with an emphasis on short fiction, creative non-fiction and the essay
poetry with an emphasis on the practice and study of a variety of poetic traditions and contemporary techniques
scriptwriting, which includes writing for the theatre and screenwriting

Through these areas, we'll introduce you to a wide range of subjects and opportunities with which writers are working professionally.

Members of our staff have received national and international recognition for their writing. You'll work with them to prepare your own writing for submission.

If you complete the Creative Writing PGCert, you can choose to transfer to the second year of our part-time MA.

What you'll learn
Through this Creative Writing master's you'll be inducted into the habits and inventive strategies of writers in a module dedicated to process. You'll also begin to concentrate on skills specific to different fields of writing in craft.

You'll go on to test your own writing in one of three workshops dedicated to poetry, prose or script. You'll also take the opportunity to focus on areas of imaginative writing that are specialisms of our staff. Examples of our specialisms include:
The Short Story
Poetry and Translation
Life Writing
Screenwriting

Our Profession of Writing module explores the roles and importance of:
agents
editors
reviewers
professional opportunities for creative writers

Delivery and teaching methods
You’ll be taught using a range of methods, typically including:
taught sessions
workshops
guided reading
individual consultations

The portfolio will see you finely develop your work through one-to-one supervision. Our small seminar groups and one-to-one supervision mean you'll work closely with your tutors, who are all writing practitioners.

All our classes take place in the early evening.

Facilities
The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics is a lively and diverse community with over 700 undergraduates and 200 postgraduates. We're based in the Percy Building. Our purpose-built postgraduate suite includes:
several dedicated computer clusters
meeting rooms
a kitchen and lounge area

Our award-winning Phillip Robinson Library has an extensive audio-visual collection.