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MA Nature and Travel Writing

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    MA One year full time. Two years part time

Masters Degree Description

Do you enjoy writing about the environment, your travels, encounters with wildlife, people and places past and present? Would you like to become a working writer, or to enrich your writing for pleasure?

Today’s writing about nature and travel welcomes all of those themes and more, and in this unique and inspiring Nature and Travel writing degree course we will look at the potential of your writing and of these dynamic genres – including where they overlap with memoir, history, culture, science, wellbeing and other genres in today’s marketplace. 

Over two years of mainly evening sessions, you'll be immersed in the world of great nature and travel writing, with talks from top authors and editors, seminars from our seasoned tutors, creative friendships with your peers and an exploration of both the classics and the cutting edge in our genres.

Entry Requirements

We’re looking for individuals with a real passion for either the natural world and/or places and people, plus a love of travel and/or nature writing.

Above all, you should have an urge to write and be published.

Ideally, you'll have a first degree, but this is not compulsory, depending on your other experience.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

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Student Destinations

By the end of the course, you'll be prepared to operate as a professional-quality writer in our genres. By then, many of our students have already appeared in highly respected newspapers, magazines and websites. 

Our graduates have been widely published, including by Penguin Books, Bloomsbury, Granta, Bradt, National Trust and others. Their prizes have included the Stanfords New Travel Writer of the Year, BBC Countryfile’s New Nature Writer of the Year, the Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers, the Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize, and short/longlists for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing and the Richard Jeffries Prize.

Module Details

  • Writing in the Field
  • Context, History and Genres in Creative Non-Fiction
  • Advanced Nature and Travel Writing
  • Professional Skills in Nature and Travel Writing
  • Portfolio and Reflective Journal

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