MA Creative Writing (Distance Learning) at Kingston University

Whether you want to develop your overall craft of creative writing, or specialise in a particular form, this Creative Writing MA will help you achieve your goals. Our award-winning creative writing students include Booker-shortlisted Oyinkan Braithwaite, Joe Pierson, who won the Bridport Prize, Stefan Mohammed, awarded the Dylan Thomas Prize, Bafta-winner, Sarah Woolner, the acclaimed poet Dom Bury and celebrated novelist Faiqa Mansab. An on-campus route for this course is also available.

Faculty: Kingston School of Art  |  Duration: 2 years part time / 1 year full time  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time, online  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Kingston upon Thames, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The Creative Writing MA (Distance Learning) follows the same course structure as the successful and popular Creative Writing MA. You'll be taught through individual tutorials, streamed lectures and readings held at or sponsored by the University. Modules - core modules: Creative Writing Dissertation, Special Study: Workshops in Popular Genre Writing, Writing the Contemporary, Writers' Workshop, Critical Challenges for Creative Writers.

Career pathways

Some of our departmental graduates have achieved notable successes, having published short stories and novels which were started as part of their degree and attracted good literary agents, for example: ; Oyinkan Braithwaite's novel, My Sister the Serial Killer, reviewed by The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4's Open Book and Front Row, has won the Crime and Thriller book of the year at the British Book Awards; Oyinkan is the first black woman to do so. ; Grainne Murphy has recently signed a two-book deal with Legend Press.

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