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Creative Writing MA

Bath Spa University

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Course options

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  • Qualification

    MA - Master of Arts

  • Location

    Newton Park

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    14-SEP-26

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

Our MA in Creative Writing, available full-time and part-time, will help you to bring a novel, book of poems, book of short stories or work of non-fiction as near to publishable quality as possible. Full-time students take the course in one year part-time students in two. Working with tutors and other writers on the course, you’ll develop your writing and build up a substantial body of work. Weekly workshops are taught by a strong team of published writers, and there are regular visits by literary agents, publishers, magazine editors and broadcasters, as well as other writers.You’ll learn to:Plan a manuscript (a novel, collection of short stories, collection of poems or book of literary non-fiction) and complete it, or a substantial part of it, brought to publishable quality or as near as possible.Understand literary form, style and genre, as relevant to your chosen form of writing.Acquire a variety of relevant writing techniques, and research techniques to support writing, and adapt them to your particular creative project.Understand and respond creatively to questions arising from the subject-matter, themes, genres, traditions and other literary contexts with which your chosen manuscript is engaged.Receive and give precise and sensitive critical feedback in workshop groups and one-to-one tutorials.Respond creatively to feedback provided by tutors and other students, adapting that feedback to your particular vision of your book.Understand choices and opportunities relevant to your chosen manuscript, including questions of how to place your work, and the role of agents, publishers and editors.

Tuition fees

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£ 19,390per year

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University information

Bath Spa University

Bath Spa University

  • University League Table

    92nd

  • Campus address

    Newton Park, Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, BA2 9BN, United Kingdom

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Creative Writing

    30th out of 47 3

  • Entry standards

    / Max 185
    114 62%

    28th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    42.0 42%

    35th

    7

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.19 80%

    26th

    14

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