MA Creative Writing

We offer places on the course on the basis of your portfolio of creative writing and an interview, which for overseas applicants may be virtual or by telephone. We are looking for writers of prose fiction (any genre), poetry or literary non-fiction whom we consider to have the potential to publish their work in the near future.

The portfolio you provide should consist of no more than twenty pages of prose fiction, poetry or literary non-fiction, or a combination of these. It is most helpful if the portfolio includes the kind of writing you wish to develop on the course.

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Past students have:

• Been awarded excellent contracts for novels
• Been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Orange Prize, Costa Prize and the Guardian First Book Award
• Received the Betty Trask Prize, Manchester Book Award, a WH Smith New Talent Award, and the Janklow and Nesbit Prize.
• Reached the bestseller lists.
• Had their poetry accepted for publication in numerous literary journals, including Ambit, Magma, London Magazine, Poetry Wales, PN Review and The Reader, among others.
• Been placed in such competitions as the Bridport, the Frogmore, Mslexia, and Writers Inc. Janklow and Nesbit Ltd

In addition, a leading literary agency awards an annual prize for the best novel or novel in progress by a student on the course.

This course includes or offers the following modules:

• Professional Skills
• Prose Workshop 2
• Poetry Workshop 2
• Writing and Gender
• Writing and the Environment
• Writing with a Poet’s Eye
• The Writer and Place
• The Short Story
• Modernism and Postmodernism
• Narrative Non-Fiction
• The Love Story
• Historical Fiction
• Writing Now
• The Manuscript