Creative Writing PhD: Fees & Entry Requirements at University of Liverpool, UK

Creative Writing PhD

UK

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What will I learn?

The Department of English has an outstanding international reputation. Our postgraduate researchers benefit from strong research-led teaching covering a wide and continuous range of writing. When you study a PhD in Creative Writing, you'll be equipped with the critical and communication skills and the capacity for adaptable intelligence which are in demand in all areas of modern life.IntroductionAt the University of Liverpool, ‘English’ is the study of the interlinked activities and histories of speaking, listening, writing, reading, and communicating, in a global language of many variants and in literatures of many types. Engagement with media has allowed our researchers to be at the forefront of developing a rich cultural agenda at national and international levels, opening access to literature to a diverse audience. This has resulted in four staff members succeeding in the New Generation Thinkers scheme. We also actively support impact in terms of reaching the general reader, through the publication of research in various, high-profile formats. The impact of such intervention into the nation’s cultural life creates new and evolving long-term contexts for thinking, understanding, writing and imagining.Many of our academics specialise in contemporary literature that overlaps with science fiction, climate change, visual arts, comics and graphic novels, and travel and nature writing, as well as psychogeography and the urban environment. Our creative writers are leading practitioners, but they’re also critics who play an important role in responding to contemporary writing in scholarly monographs, journals, literary magazines and newspapers. Members of the department have also judged significant national and international literary prizes including the Man Booker Prize, the Costa prize and the T.S. Eliot prize.Research topicsWe particularly welcome proposals that match those of our researchers. Our research themes are:Citizenship and IdentityPoetry and DiversityLiterature and the Visual Arts.

Which department am I in?

University of Liverpool

Study options

Full Time (2 Years)

Tuition fees
£25,350.00 (27,62,040) per year
This is a fixed fee

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

Start date

December 2026

Venue

Liverpool Campus

Foundation Building, Brownlow Hill,

Liverpool,

L69 7ZX, Northern England, United Kingdom

Full Time (2 Years)

Tuition fees
£25,350.00 (27,62,040) per year
This is a provisional fee yet to be approved

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

Start date

December 2027

Venue

Liverpool Campus

Foundation Building, Brownlow Hill,

Liverpool,

L69 7ZX, Northern England, United Kingdom

Entry requirements

For international students

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