MLitSt Creative Writing (four-year integrated masters)

University of Essex
Postgraduate Master of Literature with Honours – MLit (Hons) Full-time 4 Years English literature and creative writing

A-Level Entry

ABB - BBB

UCAS Points

120 - 128 points

About this course

You are inspired by the world around you, and you want to capture it in words. You are good at telling stories, and you like to experiment with form and language, creating new worlds to share with your reader. On our course you will hone your creative and writing skills across a wide variety of genres from fiction and poetry to non-fiction, psycho-geography, script and performance writing – and beyond.

At Essex we offer an unusual approach to the practice of writing, combing innovative and traditional methods in order to help you develop your writing skills and the abilities to judge your work, and that of others, critically. Learn how to give and receive feedback, through workshopping and development processes. Step outside your comfort zone and discover new and different approaches to verbal art.

On the four-year MLitSt Creative Writing, you will be part of an interdisciplinary department and well-established home to practising poets, dramatists, novelists and critics.

You have the flexibility to choose from a wide range of optional modules across different topics and areas of specialism, including;

  • Dreaming and Writing

  • The Writer’s toolkit and writing short stories

  • Creative non-fiction

  • An introduction to screenwriting

  • Writing Science Fiction

  • Writing audio drama and playwriting for theatre

  • Narrative and film

  • Journalism and storytelling

    In your fourth year, as a post-graduate student, you will be able to choose from the following masters level creative writing topics;

  • Development of a novel plan, from research and concept-development, to plotting, character and structure

  • Experimental language play

  • Psychogeography, writing about walking, place, landscape, history and psychic environment

  • Poetic practice across experimental writing in poetry from the performative to the visual

    Essex has nurtured a long tradition of distinguished writers whose work has shaped literature as we know it today, from past giants such as the American poets Robert Lowell and Ted Berrigan, to contemporary writers such as mythographer and novelist Dame Marina Warner, and Booker Prize winner Ben Okri.

    Our course offers a varied, flexible and distinctive curriculum, focused on developing your abilities as a writer, while allowing you to take options from the other courses within our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies including literature, filmmaking, journalism and drama.

    • Entry Requirements

    A-Level Grades ABB - BBB
    UCAS Tariff Points 120 - 128 points
    BTEC DDM

    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

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    A-Levels

    BBB

    UCAS Points

    112 - 120 points

    Avg. Salary

    £24,000

    Course Details

    Qualification
    Master of Literature with Honours – MLit (Hons)
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    4 Years
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Colchester
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    English literature and creative writing

    Offered by

    University of Essex

    Colchester

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