Department of English Studies | MA Creative Writing

MA Creative Writing at Durham University

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Develop your skills in writing poetry and fiction and enhance your knowledge of Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Literature on this exciting and rewarding course, taught by award–winning writers

Our MA in Creative Writing is an exciting and rewarding course, taught with academic rigour by award-winning writers. It will help sharpen your practical knowledge of writing Poetry and Prose Fiction and develop your knowledge and understanding of Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Literature.

The teaching and research provided offers a combination of Conceptual & Theoretical Reflection, Analysis of Historical & Cultural Contexts, pays close attention to Literary Texts & Primary Sources and enables the imaginative creation of new writing.

You will be supported with writing workshops and one-to-one tutorials where you will be encouraged to express and develop your own ideas. You will be based in an environment where your curiosity and imagination as well as your intellectual discipline and the individual nature of your responses is respected and valued.

Alongside the teaching modules you will have access to an extensive events programme, which includes the sharing of work and expertise by leading researchers and writers.

We are one of the most well-regarded English Departments in the country. We are, in addition, one of few English Departments in the world to teach and research in Literature produced in Britain from the early medieval period to the present day as well as in Anglophone Literature from across the globe.

Consequently, with the learning opportunities provided by the Department’s world-leading scholars, our course will give you the freedom to study broadly or to specialise, but always within a support structure where you will always be able to develop your own creative writing ideas.

The Department’s reputation for the quality and intellectual rigour of its teaching means students are in possession of skills and experience that are much sought after by potential employers around the world.

Our postgraduates are equipped with highly transferable skills and the ability to analyse, assess and communicate knowledge effectively. Many choose to take these newly acquired abilities into professional roles in sectors including arts and theatre management, broadcasting, publishing and journalism, business, accounting, marketing and advertising, teaching, higher education, law, third sector and government positions. Others choose to continue their academic study at a higher level.

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