What will I learn?

Our MA in Creative Writing, available full-time and part-time, will help you to bring a novel, book of poems, book of short stories or work of non-fiction as near to publishable quality as possible. Full-time students take the course in one year part-time students in two. Working with tutors and other writers on the course, you’ll develop your writing and build up a substantial body of work. Weekly workshops are taught by a strong team of published writers, and there are regular visits by literary agents, publishers, magazine editors and broadcasters, as well as other writers.You’ll learn to:Plan a manuscript (a novel, collection of short stories, collection of poems or book of literary non-fiction) and complete it, or a substantial part of it, brought to publishable quality or as near as possible.Understand literary form, style and genre, as relevant to your chosen form of writing.Acquire a variety of relevant writing techniques, and research techniques to support writing, and adapt them to your particular creative project.Understand and respond creatively to questions arising from the subject-matter, themes, genres, traditions and other literary contexts with which your chosen manuscript is engaged.Receive and give precise and sensitive critical feedback in workshop groups and one-to-one tutorials.Respond creatively to feedback provided by tutors and other students, adapting that feedback to your particular vision of your book.Understand choices and opportunities relevant to your chosen manuscript, including questions of how to place your work, and the role of agents, publishers and editors.

Which department am I in?

School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities

Study options

Full Time (1 Year)

Tuition fees

£19,390.00 (21,12,661) per year

This is a provisional fee yet to be approved

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution

Start date

September 2027

Venue

Newton Park

Newton Park, Newton St Loe,

Bath,

Bath and North East Somerset,

BA2 9BN, Southern England, United Kingdom

Entry requirements

For international students

We offer places on the course on the basis of your portfolio of creative writing and an interview, which for overseas applicants may be virtual or by telephone. We are looking for writers of prose fiction (any genre), poetry or literary non-fiction whom we consider to have the potential to publish their work in the near future. The portfolio you provide should consist of no more than twenty pages of prose fiction, poetry or literary non-fiction, or a combination of these. It is most helpful if the portfolio includes the kind of writing you wish to develop on the course.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.