Creative Writing

Entry requirements

• A 2:2 undergraduate UK honours degree or international equivalent or;
• A degree-equivalent postgraduate diploma/professional qualification.

Applicants who hold a degree from another discipline or have experiential learning in lieu of a degree may also be considered for entry via the Recognition of Prior Learning process (RPL).

Portfolio

As part of the application and admissions process you will be asked to provide:

• A personal statement outlining your intentions for MA study.
• One reference to support your application. This may be from an academic or a creative practitioner.
• Between 10-15 pieces of work from your portfolio. the files should be no larger than 80MB individually.
• Provide a written component discussing the work you have provided within your portfolio.

Applicants who meet the entry requirements above will be required to submit a personal statement outlining their intentions for MA study.

Months of entry

September

Course content

This course positions the writer as creative practitioner. Our guiding focus is the creative act of writing, and developing your creative insight through critical exploration.

Tailored to recent graduates, as well as aspirational or established writers looking for a professional qualification, this course supports those seeking opportunity to advance their craft and collaborate with peers within a multidisciplinary environment. You will be supported to produce an extended creative writing project, alongside peers working across literary forms.

Underpinned by workshops covering prose, poetry and scriptwriting, you will explore craft and technique, deepening your practice through exploration across discipline, form and genre. You will evidence that which is valuable to your ongoing creative development, to interrogate the breadth and depth of the literary tradition.

In keeping with the arts university setting, you will engage with experimental and hybrid writing forms, as well as explore collaborative opportunities with practitioners across multiple creative disciplines. The interdisciplinary approach fostered by the course allows for exploration of digital narratives and writing for interactive media.

Mirroring the creative process of ideation, development, and revision, you will develop your creative practice and engage with research methodologies. You will be supported to develop creative and critical skills with regular sharing and feedback workshops. Engagement with the creative industries, through literary festivals, publishers, and creative agencies, will widen this creative and critical dialogue, while offering networking and career-building opportunities.

The course enables you to consider the range of roles available to writing specialists, across the creative industries, academia, and the digital media sector, with focus on content development, editing, pitching, problem solving, project management and self-advocation.