MA/PGDip Creative Writing

Anyone willing to develop can achieve their full potential here. Our cutting-edge Creative Writing MA is at the forefront of literary MA provision in the UK. Graduate with a creative, professional skillset. This incorporates studying; Popular, long-running modules: Writing for Young Readers, Short Stories and Novel, which explore writing in a variety of forms, all with the aim of helping you produce compelling, contemporary work of a publishable standard. Creative Contexts and Archives and Research, which will enable you to situate your work among other contemporary writers and enlarge your research skills. Throughout the programme, you will be working with established, successful writers, all of whom are here to help you take your writing to the next level. Successful writers who have graduated from the programme include Holly Pester, Rachel Knightley, and Nikki Dudley.

Students need a second-class honours degree is normally required but non-standard applications are also welcome, and applicants are invited to submit a portfolio of writing, consisting of approximately 2000 words of prose (Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Journalism) or 15 pages of poetry.