Creative Writing (Distance Learning)

Entry requirements

The typical offer for this course is a 2:2 or above honours degree in creative writing, English literature, literature and language, drama or theatre studies or a humanities subject.

Applicants with academic qualifications in other subjects, or relevant work experience, will be considered on an individual basis. You will also need to display a demonstrable interest in creative writing.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Whether you want to develop your overall craft of creative writing, or specialise in a particular form, this Creative Writing MA will help you achieve your goals.

Our award-winning former creative writing students include Booker-shortlisted Oyinkan Braithwaite, Joe Pierson, who won the Bridport Prize, Stefan Mohammed, awarded the Dylan Thomas Prize, Bafta-winner, Sarah Woolner, the acclaimed poet Dom Bury and celebrated novelist Faiqa Mansab.

Delivered by Distance Learning and taught in virtual forums and classrooms, you will be able to ensure your studies suit your schedule.

You will join a thriving research department, which covers the following areas:

• 19th and 20th century British and American fiction
• fictions of globalisation
• modernism
• gothic writing
• travel writing
• women's writing from the 18th century to the present
• New Woman and fin de siècle fictions
• Shakespeare
• literature of the English Reformation period
• postcolonial studies
• theories of gender
• life writing and trauma