Description

Unleash your creative potential and indulge in your passion for writing.

Our Creative Writing MA offers a distinctive and flexible pattern of study. This is ideal if you're looking to extend or develop your interests in creative writing. Taught by award-winning authors with specialisms in fiction, poetry, non-fiction and scriptwriting, you will learn the craft of creative writing whilst exploring the theory behind it.

This programme offers a great opportunity to join our thriving literary community and grow your creative potential. You will develop your skills as a writer and explore the theory and practice of writing in the contemporary world through a combination of taught modules, independent study, writing and research.

You will have the opportunity to develop employability skills, work on a publication, and complete your own final project where you work on a longer portfolio in depth, supervised by a dedicated member of staff.

Modules offer a thematic approach and you may write in any form on any given course (you are not asked to pin down whether you are a 'poet' or a 'novelist'). There are also modules that develop your employability - these are ideal if you have an interest in either facilitating writing groups yourself, or learning how the publishing industry operates.

The portfolio project is an opportunity for independent and in-depth development of a writing project, supervised by a writer on the team, and supported by three workshops. The course is enhanced by a range of further opportunities including a writing retreat, an opportunity to meet with an agent/publisher/editor and a wealth of brilliant events through the York Literature Festival.

You will have the opportunity for one-to-one sessions with your tutors every term. The final project is independent and is a chance to invest in a project of your choice.