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MLitt Creative Writing Online Distance Learning

  • DeadlineStudy Details:

    12 months full-time; 24 months part‑time

Course Description

If you’re a talented and ambitious writer looking to develop your craft and take your writing to the next level, Glasgow’s renowned Creative Writing MLitt is ideal. Develop your writing practice wherever you are in the world by gaining creative and critical skills on this exciting and supportive online course.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

  • Our MLitt in Creative Writing is delivered within a clear three-part structure, focused on creative, critical and editorial skills.
  • Regardless of where you live, we will give you the support and online tools to make your writing aspirations a reality.
  • Our Creative Writing programme has gained an excellent reputation with writers, agents and publishers. The University’s writing courses are among the most challenging and popular in the UK. These courses have helped launch the careers of an impressive list of acclaimed authors including, but not limited to: Anne Donovan, Helen Sedgwick, Kirsty Logan, Jen Hadfield, JL Williams, Louise Welsh, Zoe Strachan, Elizabeth Reeder and many others.
  • You’ll be taught by successful and well-regarded writers who specialise across diverse genres. We are happy to supervise students working in established genres but just as keen to see students mix genres or create new forms. In addition, you’ll be able to tap into the University’s strong network of literary agents and publishers, as well as an impressive list of published alumni.
  • Regardless of where you live, we will give you the support and online tools to make your writing aspirations a reality.
  • This online programme is 1 year full time. If you are already working full time or have family commitments, the course can also be completed on a part-time flexible study basis over 2 years.

Entry Requirements

  1. You will normally have a 2:1 Honours degree (or equivalent), though this is not a pre-requisite.
  2. The primary basis for admission is the appraisal of a portfolio of your creative work.
  3. You submit a portfolio of original work (poetry, fiction, life-writing or other prose, drama, and in some instances a portfolio of translation work). A maximum of 20 pages (one side only, double spaced throughout) per submission will be considered, and the portfolio can contain prose, verse, script, or a combination of these.
  4. We also require two letters of reference. Your referees should include an academic and a creative referee where possible. Where this is not possible, you can provide referees from other areas who can vouch that you are who you say you are and that your work and achievements are your own. It is particularly helpful if these referees are familiar with your writing and can provide references on that basis.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Skills gained in the study of our Creative Writing MLitt may lead to career opportunities in literary and cultural fields such as editing, publishing and arts development. Many of our alumni are successful authors. Our graduates have also gone into journalism, publishing, and a range of other professions. Positions held by recent graduates include managing director, freelance writer, author, copywriter and community arts worker.

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