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- Creative Writing and Publishing MA
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Qualification
MA - Master of Arts
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Location
Northampton Square
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
SEP-22
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Duration
1 year
Course summary
Key information
Sharpen your business knowledge alongside your creative writing skills and become equipped to work in publishing. If you are a working writer, knowing how the modern commercial industry works will improve your chances of success. This programme gives you practical publishing experience and hones your creative practice.
Course overview
Benefits of this course
You will be introduced to the fast-paced world of commercial publishing and learn the how the different sectors of the publishing industry fit together.
Our digital publishing element shows you how social media and web publishing is vital to finding and sustaining your community of readers.
We aim to improve your skills as a creative writer, particularly as a writer of short stories and novels. You will build the skills and experience needed to better engage with the publishing industry and work within it.
Who is this course for?
If you are a writer seeking to develop publishing industry knowledge alongside writing skills, this programme is ideal. You can get hands-on publishing experience and enhance your creative practice.
Whether you are an experienced writer or relatively new to the field, you will be equipped with new professional competencies from creative digital content to traditional print.
Teaching and assessment
You will learn through a mix of lectures, workshops, tutorials, group work, seminar contributions, study visits, work attachments and independent learning and research.
Career
When you graduate with the Creative Writing and Publishing MA your career prospects will be significantly enhanced.
Whether you aim to pursue writing professionally or work in the publishing industry, you will have the skills and knowledge to succeed.
Our graduates have secured publishing contracts across the world in various different genres.
These include Carlie Sorosiak, whose young adult novel If Birds Fly Back was published by HarperTeen in the US, Macmillan in the UK, Penguin Random House in Spain, and Arena Verlag in Germany.
Modules
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£ 16,780per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
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University League Table
40th
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Campus address
City, University of London, Northampton Square, City of London, EC1V 0HB, England
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Subject ranking
1st out of 97 35
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 53.93 79%32nd
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