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Study Details: MA One year full time or two years part time
This specialist creative writing MA is designed for writers for children, teenagers and young adults who aim to complete a novel, series of picture books or shorter stories for young children. Taught by published writers for children and young people and by publishing professionals, this practical course will help you refine your craft while learning about the interaction of creative and business considerations in the modern publishing industry.
This course is available both on campus and online so you can work in the way that suits you best.
We offer places on the basis of our assessment of your quality, potential and commitment as a writer and your ability to benefit from the course.
Usually, but not invariably, you will have a degree. This may be in subjects other than Creative Writing.
This is not a beginner’s course, so we will be looking for evidence of originality in your writing for young people, and a sense of audience.
You will have read widely in the field of contemporary children’s literature.
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Over 70 of our alumni have now been traditionally published. Our graduates also go into editing (freelance and at a publishing house), agenting, rights, marketing, publicity, sales, events management and teaching. They have careers in journalism, writing for magazines, teaching, various aspects of publishing, and television.
Our published graduates have secured contracts with, among others:
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