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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.

Our experts will mentor you in how best to develop and complete mid-sized creative projects – whether you have existing written work or are starting out – while introducing you to a range of modules closely related to the life of writing.

You will work on a writing project of your own devising, which you’ll develop through a combination of individual supervision and group workshops. In the first two terms, core modules will focus on the effective planning, research, and development of your project, then on the early stages of drafting and revising the text as it develops.

Careers with MA Creative Writing

As a creative writing graduate and beginning author, you will enter the job market with advanced research and writing abilities, together with a high degree of cultural literacy and critical sophistication. In today’s economy, this knowledge and these communication skills can be vital.

Our degrees have been designed to develop the capabilities valued by both creative and commercial industries, providing you with a diverse range of career opportunities following graduation. Your transferable skills are highly sought by employers and well-suited to several sectors, including:

• journalism
• publishing
• marketing and PR
• teaching
• civil service