MA Creative Writing
Master
In Hatfield
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Hatfield
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Duration
1 Year
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Start date
Different dates available
The University of Hertfordshire MA in Creative Writing offers you the opportunity to develop your creative, critical and professional writing skills in a stimulating and supportive environment.
Through writing workshops and intensive tutorial-based supervision our teaching staff - all established authors themselves - will help you improve your own writing as you explore the advanced craft, theory and techniques of poetry, prose and drama.
Whether you have an unfinished novel you’re passionate about or want to learn how to write powerful dialogue or create memorable characters, this MA Creative Writing offers a range of modules that give you both literary context and practical professional guidance.
In all modules you will be taught by lecturers who are leading writers whose work encompasses a wide range of approaches and styles and who bridge the gap between creative and academic approaches in their fields.
Wayne Holloway-Smith’s collection Love Minus Love was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and his poem ‘the posh mums are boxing in the square’ won the National Poetry Award.
Lorna Gibb has won the Granta Memoir prize and been shortlisted for the Sperber Biography Prize.
Joe Thomas’s most recent novel, Bent, was a Guardian Best Book of 2020 and picked by the Irish Times in their selection of the Best Crime Fiction of 2020.
Helen Gordon – a former editor of Granta magazine – has published the critically acclaimed novel, Landfall, and a non-fiction book on nature and travel, Notes From Deep Time is forthcoming in 2021.
Simon Vinnicombe’s work has been produced at the National Theatre and The Old Vic in London, the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York, and on BBC TV and BBC Radio.
Drew Pautz’s work has been performed at the National Theatre, Soho Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, and on BBC Radio.
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About this course
This MA will give you the opportunity to create a body of work alongside the skills and confidence to continue to the next stage of your life as a writer. You’ll gain practical knowledge and transferable skills, such as critical and analytical thinking, which can be applied to a range of professions, including publishing and the media, teaching, advertising and marketing. Some of our graduates go on to higher levels of studying, engaging in research in their chosen area or to pursue a Creative Writing PhD.
A minimum of a 2.2 honours degree
Personal statement
One reference
A writing sample
Why choose this course?
Top reasons to study MA Creative Writing at the University of Hertfordshire
We give you:
Teaching staff who are all published authors, poets or dramatists
Visits and talks by writers, editors and agents working across the creative writing industries
Opportunities to create and develop a portfolio of work, whether poetry, prose or drama
A platform for publishing your work and a springboard for your future life as a writer
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Subjects
- Staff
- Creative Writing
- Theatre
- Writing
- Poetry
- Prose
- Radio
- University
- Lecture
- Workshop
Course programme
This MA is practice-based, delivered mainly through writing workshops, led by experienced creative writing professionals. Regular tutorials with your individual supervisor supplement these workshop sessions.
A guest lecture series invites writers, editors, agents, poets and dramatists to share their professional insights, while students also have the opportunity to work closely with Out of Joint, the UK’s leading touring theatre company.
The University’s Poetry Fellows, Rachel Long, Mark Waldron and Jane Yeh, offer masterclasses, workshops and give regular readings as part of the University’s Poetry Hub, founded in 2017 to encourage the development of poetry at the University and beyond. The Hub offers an annual Single Poem Prize, judged by the Fellows.
There is also an active, student-run Creative Writing Society, adding to the vibrant and creative environment in which you’ll be working.
Available as a one-year full time course or a two-year part-time course, the full-time MA is taught in two three-hour classes a week, currently during the daytime.
Level 7
Module
- Creative Writing Dissertation
- Working as a Writer
- The Writing Workshop1: Creative and Critical Processes
- The Writing Workshop 2: Creative and Critical Processes
Additional information
UK Students
Full time
£9450 for the 2021/2022 academic year
Part time
£790 per 15 credits for the 2021/2022 academic year
EU Students
Full time
£13950 for the 2021/2022 academic year
Part time
£1160 per 15 credits for the 2021/2022 academic year
International Students
Full time
£13950 for the 2021/2022 academic year
Part time
£1160 per 15 credits for the 2021/2022 academic year
MA Creative Writing