MA Creative Writing

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Master

In Corsham

£ 13,860 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Corsham

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    Different dates available

A MA designed to help you write a novel, collection of poems, collection of stories or work of non-fiction.

Excellent record of helping students achieve publication
Widely regarded as one of the best courses of its kind
Taught by an extremely strong team of publishing writers

This course 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.

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.

Due to the reputation of the MA in Creative Writing, we are able to recruit excellent students who form an exciting and mutually supportive community of writers every year.

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Location

Start date

Corsham (Wiltshire)
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Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

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.
To understand literary form, style and genre, as relevant to your chosen form of writing
To acquire a variety of relevant writing techniques, and research techniques to support writing, and adapt them to your particular creative project.
To 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.
To receive and give precise and sensitive critical feedback in workshop groups and one-to-one tutorials.
To respond creatively to feedback provided by tutors and other students, adapting that feedback to your particular vision of your book.
To 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.

Current or former students have:

been awarded excellent contracts for novels;
been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Orange Prize, Costa Prize and the Guardian First Book Award;
received the Betty Trask Prize, Manchester Book Award and a W.H. Smith New Talent Award; and
reached the best-seller lists.
Student poets have had their poetry accepted for publication in numerous literary journals, including Ambit, Magma, London Magazine, Poetry Wales, PN Review and The Reader, among others, and have been placed in such competitions as the Bridport, the Frogmore, Mslexia, and Writers Inc. Janklow and Nesbit Ltd, a leading literary agency, awards an annual prize for the best novel or novel in progress by a student on the course.

Admission to the course is based on a portfolio of creative writing, and our estimate of the student's commitment and potential as a writer and ability to benefit from the course. Most students have an undergraduate degree, but this is not essential if you can demonstrate your ability in the portfolio.

The portfolio should consist of one or more short pieces of creative writing submitted with the application form, such as two chapters of a novel, two short stories, six poems, or the equivalent.

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4.5
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  • It was a good university. The doctor services need to be improved.
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  • I am having a great experience at Bath Spa, it was way too expensive though.
    |
  • The course was informative and educational, their casualness was pretty amazing.
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Course rating

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Centre rating

Student's Review

4.5
12/05/2019
About the course: It was a good university. The doctor services need to be improved.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Student's Review

5.0
11/05/2019
About the course: I am having a great experience at Bath Spa, it was way too expensive though.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Jack

5.0
10/05/2019
About the course: The course was informative and educational, their casualness was pretty amazing.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

Student's Review

3.5
09/05/2019
About the course: Accomodation is a concern and must need a change. Bath Spa university is a great place and they have improved in so many things. I enjoyed small and initmate space.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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This centre's achievements

2019

All courses are up to date

The average rating is higher than 3.7

More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months

This centre has featured on Emagister for 14 years

Subjects

  • Creative Writing
  • Writing
  • Team Training
  • Poems
  • Poetry
  • Short Stories
  • Fiction
  • Scriptwriting
  • Novel
  • Novel Writing
  • Collaborative Film
  • Creative Project
  • Visiting Writers

Course programme

Each student takes two workshop modules, two context modules and a double module entitled ‘The Manuscript’.

  • Workshops
    The first workshop module, ‘Professional Skills’, taken in trimester one, provides intensive group discussion and some plenary lectures. You’ll bring short pieces of writing to workshop groups consisting of a tutor and not more than seven other students. There are separate groups for prose and poetry. You’ll submit a manuscript proposal halfway through the module. In trimester two, you’ll take a second workshop module in either prose or poetry.
  • Context
    Each context module explores connections between your creative writing and the wider world as represented by a theme or genre. Seminars are divided between considering set texts and workshopping your creative writing. The set texts are examined from the point of view of practical lessons that the writer can learn. You’ll take a context module in trimester one and another in trimester two.
  • Manuscript
    In trimester three, you’ll take ‘The Manuscript’, taught by means of one-to-one tutorials. This is the culmination of the course – the book, or substantial part of a book.

Course assessment

You’ll be assessed entirely by coursework: mainly creative writing, plus two short essays, a manuscript proposal and a short commentary on the manuscript in progress.

MA Creative Writing

£ 13,860 VAT inc.