MA Creative Writing

University of Reading
Postgraduate MA Full-time 1 Year English literature and creative writing

About this course

Develop your flair for writing, with expert guidance and support from published authors, with our MA Creative Writing programme.

Creative writing can simultaneously be a vocation, a career and a transferable skill. This programme focuses on the multiple roles that writing can play in your life. We’re in the top 150 universities in the world for this subject (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024).

The University of Reading is 6th in the UK for research outputs in English Language and Literature (Times Higher Education analysis of the latest Research Excellence Framework 2021 – English Language and Literature, when scoring by GPA Output).

For more information, please visit the programme page

Career Prospects

Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

3412 Authors, writers and translators
4135 Library clerks and assistants
2471 Librarians
2492 Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters
2491 Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors
2115 Social and humanities scientists

Course Details

Qualification
MA
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
1 Year
Start Date
2025
Academic Year
2025
Campus / Location
Reading
Scheme
Postgraduate
Subjects
English literature and creative writing