MA Creative and Critical Writing
What is Creative and Critical Writing MA?
Choose your own path through the course, focusing either on creative or literary critical writing, or a combination of both.
You’ll work with practising authors, poets, and playwrights – as well as leaders in the field of literary criticism – to develop your own distinctive voice. You’ll develop as a writer, not only in the classroom, but in the world, and you’ll be advised on the routes you can take to publication. Modules with a more academic focus allow you to engage with literary theory and academic studies of influential writers’ work.
Study style
You’ll be assessed through coursework and presentations.
This highly successful MA in Creative and Critical Writing was one of the first in the UK to offer modules dedicated to the theory and practice of teaching creative writing, and the theoretical and practical analysis of the creative process. These options complement the creative and critical strands of the degree and offer you the chance to become a writer prepared for the modern professional arenas in which you may find yourself.
Possible careers
Graduates from this course can go on to work as:
- Writer - many of our students have gone on to successfully publish in journal and book form
- Editor - a number of our graduates now work in publishing and on journals in an editorial role
- Teacher of creative writing - several of our students have gone on to teach, or have enhanced their own practice.
- Community Arts Manager - some of our students have gone on to run community arts organisations.
What is Creative and Critical Writing MA?
Choose your own path through the course, focusing either on creative or literary critical writing, or a combination of both.
You’ll work with practising authors, poets, and playwrights – as well as leaders in the field of literary criticism – to develop your own distinctive voice. You’ll develop as a writer, not only in the classroom, but in the world, and you’ll be advised on the routes you can take to publication. Modules with a more academic focus allow you to engage with literary theory and academic studies of influential writers’ work.
Study style
You’ll be assessed through coursework and presentations.
This highly successful MA in Creative and Critical Writing was one of the first in the UK to offer modules dedicated to the theory and practice of teaching creative writing, and the theoretical and practical analysis of the creative process. These options complement the creative and critical strands of the degree and offer you the chance to become a writer prepared for the modern professional arenas in which you may find yourself.
Possible careers
Graduates from this course can go on to work as:
- Writer - many of our students have gone on to successfully publish in journal and book form
- Editor - a number of our graduates now work in publishing and on journals in an editorial role
- Teacher of creative writing - several of our students have gone on to teach, or have enhanced their own practice.
- Community Arts Manager - some of our students have gone on to run community arts organisations.
