MA Creative Writing at University of Essex

Our challenging, practice-based course offers you a unique approach to the practice of writing, emphasising innovation and experimentation in your work. On our MA Creative Writing, you deepen your knowledge of literary tradition, exploring different modes and genres in order to develop your own creative and expressive written skills. You expand your use of creative writing techniques and improve your critical judgement of your own work.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities  |  Department: School of Language, Literature, and Media  |  Duration: 1 year  |  Study mode: full-time; part-time  |  Intake: October 2027  |  Location: Colchester, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Core and compulsory modules: Year 1: Dissertation, Dissertation Preparation: Postgraduate Research and Writing Skills, Creative Writing Workshop.

Career pathways

Many of our students have gone on to successfully publish their work, notable recent alumni including: Ida Løkås, who won a literary prize in Norway for The Beauty That Flows Past, securing a book deal Alexia Casale, whose novel Bone Dragon was published by Faber & Faber and subsequently featured on both the Young Adult Books of the Year 2013 list for The Financial Times, and The Independent's Books of the year 2013: Children Elaine Ewart, graduate from our MA Wild Writing and PhD Creative Writing courses, placed second in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2015 Patricia Borlenghi, the founder of Patrician Press, which has published works by a number of our alumni Petra McQueen, who has written for The Guardian and runs creative writing courses and is studying PhD Creative Writing in the Department We also offer supervision for PhD, MPhil and MA by Dissertation in different literatures and various approaches to literature, covering most aspects of early modern and modern writing in English, plus a number of other languages.

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