| The award | How you will study | Study duration | Course start | Domestic course fees | International course fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA | Full-time | 12 months | find out | find out | find out |
| MA | Part-time | 24 months | find out | find out | find out |
| PG Cert | Full-time | 12 months | find out | find out | find out |
Our PGCert and MA in Creative Writing provides a unique opportunity to explore and develop your creative writing skills through practise, revision and discussion.
Our Creative Writing master's develops your understanding and awareness of your own writing and your technical writing skills.
You'll further your awareness of:
This PGCert and MA in Creative Writing provide a unique opportunity to explore and develop your creative writing skills. We teach creative writing in three areas:
Through these areas, we'll introduce you to a wide range of subjects and opportunities with which writers are working professionally.
Members of our staff have received national and international recognition for their writing. You'll work with them to prepare your own writing for submission.
If you complete the Creative Writing PGCert, you can choose to transfer to the second year of our part-time MA.
What you'll learn
Through this Creative Writing master's you'll be inducted into the habits and inventive strategies of writers in a module dedicated to process. You'll also begin to concentrate on skills specific to different fields of writing in craft.
You'll go on to test your own writing in one of three workshops dedicated to poetry, prose or script. You'll also take the opportunity to focus on areas of imaginative writing that are specialisms of our staff. Examples of our specialisms include:
Our Profession of Writing module explores the roles and importance of:
Delivery and teaching methods
You’ll be taught using a range of methods, typically including:
The portfolio will see you finely develop your work through one-to-one supervision. Our small seminar groups and one-to-one supervision mean you'll work closely with your tutors, who are all writing practitioners.
All our classes take place in the early evening.
Facilities
The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics is a lively and diverse community with over 700 undergraduates and 200 postgraduates. We're based in the Percy Building. Our purpose-built postgraduate suite includes:
Our award-winning Phillip Robinson Library has an extensive audio-visual collection.
See our course fees and funding webpage - http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/degrees/creative-writing-ma-pgcert/#fees&funding
Usually a 2:1 honours degree, or international equivalent, in a related subject such as:
We will also consider applicants on an individual basis with lower or non-standard qualifications. Along with your application you will be asked to submit examples of your creative writing, either two short stories, six poems or a script.
Those who complete the PGCert can choose to transfer to the second year of our part time MA.
International Students
To study this course you need to meet our Band 10 English Language requirements:
Direct Entry: IELTS 7.0 overall (with 6.5 in writing and a minimum of 6.0 in all other sub-skills)
Pre-sessional English Language courses are not accepted as an alternative entry to this course.
Our typical English Language requirements are listed as IELTS scores but we also accept a wide range of English Language tests.
The equivalent academic qualifications that we accept are listed on our country pages.
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