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Qualification
MA - Master of Arts
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Location
Royal Holloway, University of London
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
SEP
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Duration
1 year
Course summary
The course
This course allows you to develop your work as a writer to a professional level, going beyond the personal to write with an engaged sense of literary culture, its social role and contemporary practices. The MA is designed for students with an established writing practice who are intending to develop their creative writing beyond first-degree level. It is also designed for those students wishing to proceed to MPhil or PhD. This MA is taught in Bedford Square in Central London, in the heart of literary Bloomsbury, putting you within walking distance of publishing houses, bookshops, major UK libraries and all of the other cultural attractions of Central London.
You will take one of four distinct pathways:
- Fiction
- Literary Non-Fiction
- Poetry
- Poetic Practice
While the pathways share a similar structure, they are taught separately so as to ensure you can work to a consistently high level. Please see the Course structure section below for more details on each of these.
The MA ranks among the top creative-writing courses in the country and is taught by leading writers whose work encompasses a wide range of approaches and styles.
- Sean Borodale’s Bee Journal was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and Costa Book Award.
- Lavinia Greenlaw has received a Forward Prize for Poem of the Year, the Prix du Premier Roman, a Wellcome Engagement Fellowship and the Ted Hughes Award.
- Nikita Lalwani won the Desmond Elliot Award, and was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker prize.
Teaching & assessment
You will work in small groups and with extensive individual attention. We are looking for people who will flourish from working intensively within a rigorous and experimental but supportive environment. In addition to workshops, you will take modules in Supplementary Discourses and Reading as a Writer, seminars designed to enhance your understanding of your own practice as well as the broader literary context in which you will be situating your work.
You will submit creative and critical coursework, and will undertake a final practical project and dissertation on practice.
In the summer term, you will receive individual supervision and will be offered a programme of events and masterclasses introducing you to leading writers, editors and agents who can advise on next steps. Enhancing the experience, there are regular readings and talks given by students, staff and visiting writers.
Your future career
A significant number of our Creative Writing students have become published authors or found work in publishing, the media and agencies.
We have an impressive record for placing graduates in academic jobs.
This course will give you a distinctive, creative edge in careers such as publishing, teaching, writing and journalism, administration and marketing.
Modules
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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
24th
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Campus address
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England
Subject rankings
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Subject ranking
5th out of 53
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Entry standards
/ Max 168144 84%9th
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10075 75%5th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 54.12 82%21st
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