Creative Writing

What you will learn

On this MA Creative Writing you will deepen your knowledge of reading and writing and the possibilities of literature across all forms and genres, as well as developing critical and professional skills relevant to the workplace.

You will take core modules which focus your attention on the fundamentals of writing and then choose option modules which give you the opportunity to diversify your practice and experiment in more specialist areas and concerns including:

How you will learn

This course is available to study full- or part-time. It has an evening timetable with classes taking place in the evening. These include workshops, tutorials and supervisions, in which you will benefit from close and attentive readings of your work. In lectures and seminars, we consider issues of craft, expression and meaning within the context of how you see the world, how we theorise writing and contextualise our work within broader traditions. You will build on existing skills and develop new techniques and approaches to writing under the tutelage of published authors.

Highlights

Careers and employability

On successfully graduating from this MA, you will have gained an array of important transferable skills, including:

Graduates can pursue career paths in areas such as: