MA Creative Writing at Bath Spa University

Programme overview

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.

Faculty: School of Creative and Cultural Arts | Duration: One year full-time or two years part-time. | Study mode: full-time; part-time | Location: Bath, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Workshops The first workshop module, Professional Skills, provides intensive group discussion and some plenary lectures. You’ll bring short pieces of writing to small workshop classes led by a tutor. There are separate groups for prose and poetry.

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Application information

Entry requirements

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. This course requires an IELTS test (or equivalent) with an overall grade of 7.0 and with no less than 6.0 in each component. Please send approximately 20 pages of your creative writing, representing what you consider to be your best work. If you send excerpts from a longer work, please provide a synopsis.

Domestic applicants: GBP 10,450 a year (2027/28). Annual tuition fee, UK full time Source

International applicants: GBP 20,350 a year (2027/28). Annual tuition fee, International full time Source

Duration: One year full-time or two years part-time.

Apply through the official page: https://apphub.bathspa.ac.uk/Connectors/Paperless/MACW

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