Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
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Study Details: MA 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time
Have you got a story to tell? Or poems that you want to shape into a collection? This degree will help you develop your creative writing practice. You’ll experiment with a wide variety of forms to help you discover your preferred mode of writing.
You may be writing regularly; you may be returning to it after concentrating on your career. Whatever your background, if you’re serious about your writing, we can help you to develop your practice. You’ll have the chance to experiment with different forms – poetry, the novel, short story and life writing – as well as to specialise in one of those areas – and you will receive expert guidance in each field. Some seminars will be taken by visiting writers who will talk about their work, introduce you to different theories of creative writing and engage you in discussion about their writing. Recent visitors have included Ali Smith, Caryl Phillips, Claire Keegan and Daljit Nagra.
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least second class standard in a relevant/related subject.
You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.
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Goldsmiths offers a range of financial support including postgraduate scholarships, bursaries and fee waivers. These are awarded based on a variety of criteria, for example academic achievements or personal circumstances.
Graduates of this programme include writers Tom Lee, Lucy Caldwell, Ross Raisin, Amy Sackville, Rohan Kriwaczek, Evie Wyld, Sara Grant, Naomi Foyle, Bronia Kita, Claire Adam, Lijia Zhang, Luiza Sauma, Ashley Dartnell and Suzanne Joinson and the poets Emily Berry, Andy Spragg, Kate Potts, Jack Underwood, Abigail Parry, Anthony Joseph, Katrina Naomi and Matthew Gregory.
Among them they’ve won or been shortlisted for awards including:
Other graduates have gone on to work in publishing (for example, as senior commissioning editors), journalism, public relations, teaching, advertising, the civil service, business, industry, and the media.
You will take three compulsory modules over the course of the programme. You will also participate in twelve one-on-one tutorials throughout the year.
Compulsory modules
You also choose one option module. Full-time students take the module in the second term, while part-time students take it in the second team of their second year.
You can choose from a specialist workshop in fiction, poetry, or life writing, or an option module from the list of MA options offered by the Department of English and Creative Writing including topics such as European Avant-Garde, Postmodernist Fiction, or Re-writing Sexualities.
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