PhD Creative Writing

As well as the popular MLitt in Creative Writing, and a research-led MRes in Creative Writing route at Masters level, we also offer PhDs in Creative Writing which may suit those who wish to pursue a particular sustained project. You can study the PhD in Creative Writing full-time, over three years, or part-time over six years.You'll create a piece of imaginative writing in collaboration with a successful, published author – either the novelist and screenwriter Andrew Meehan (One Star Awake, The Mystery of Love), Dr Rodge Glass, novelist, nonfiction writer and biographer (Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir, Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography), the novelist and poet Sarah Bernstein (The Coming Bad Days, Study for Obedience), or another member of the Creative Writing team.You can specialise in one of these genres:poetryfictioncreative non-fictionhybrid writingThe length of your project can be negotiated with your supervisor, but will usually be around 80,000 words. All projects are different, and exact word counts will be tailored to particular projects, usually dependent on the form of the work, also the nature of the accompanying critical element that is also submitted as part of a PhD alongside the creative work. A good Creative Writing PhD contains these two parts - creative and critical writing - working in conversation with each other.