113 Creative Writing Degrees in the UK
- Lincoln, United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
1 year
On-Campus
English
Our MA in Creative Writing is an innovative and exciting course that provides opportunities to work closely with practising creative writers and professionals from the publishing industry. It is designed to encourage you to improve your craft as a writer, develop your philosophy of composition, and explore contemporary forms of literature and the creative industries. The course has a strong focus on employability and aims to prepare you for a professional writing or publishing career.
- Colchester, United Kingdom
Full time
On-Campus
English
Our course combines hands-on practical filmmaking, creative writing workshops, and theoretical and contextual studies. We encourage you to forge links between theory and practice, and to make critically-informed choices in your own creative work through the knowledge you gain of film history, literary classics and writing across a range of genres.
- Online United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
3 years
Distance Learning
English
The degree starts by developing your understanding of the world we live in through a variety of perspectives, periods and subjects – including creative writing. You’ll then take two specialist creative writing modules, exploring a range of approaches to writing. You will develop your writing skills in several genres including fiction; poetry; life writing; and scriptwriting for film, radio and stage. Through being supported to develop your own pieces of writing, and by engagement with the module materials, you will develop important skills in complex argument and critical commentary.
- Lincoln, United Kingdom
Full time
3 years
On-Campus
English
Live the Writing Life at the University of Lincoln. If you love to read and write and want to explore the boundaries of your own creativity, Creative Writing at Lincoln can provide you with a new appreciation of literature. Students can develop their own distinctive voice as an author and philosophy of composition, as well as explore the theory and practice of building a diverse portfolio of work across forms and styles. As a Creative Writing student at the University of Lincoln, you have the opportunity to work with and become part of, an international community of writers who will aim to help you develop your skills in genres as diverse as prose fiction, psychological thrillers, scriptwriting, poetry, creative non-fiction, and the graphic novel. Our aim is to help you to develop your writing in innovative and exciting ways, becoming the best writer you can be.
- Dundee, United Kingdom
Full time
4 years
On-Campus
English
On this course, you can study the history of English literature from the medieval period right up to the present day, and combine this with studies in creative writing. A range of modules gives you the option to study anything from Shakespeare to science fiction, Romantic to contemporary poetry, or Victorian novels to Hollywood films.
- Belfast, United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
1 year
On-Campus
English
If you have a commitment to imaginative writing, if you would like to develop your artistic practice, build your professional skills as an author and engage with the vibrant creative community of the Seamus Heaney Centre, then the MA in English (Creative Writing) is for you. The programme includes prose writing (fiction and creative non-fiction) and script writing (screen and stage), and invites you to explore all these modes of writing before choosing a specialism.
- Stirling, United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
12 months
On-Campus
English
Develop your creative flair. Our MLitt Creative Writing offers you the opportunity to produce a body of work – poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction – over the course of an inspiring and stimulating year.
- Bath, United Kingdom
Full time
On-Campus
English
Contemporary creative writing is diverse. Its digital and on the page; social and singular. Our comprehensive Program includes prose fiction, YA, flash fiction, poetry, scriptwriting for live performance and screen, life writing and memoir.
- Swansea, United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
On-Campus
The MA in Creative Writing is a uniquely inspirational programthat delivers integrated training in the writing of literary and media text.
- London, United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
On-Campus
English
The inter-relationship between theory, scholarship and the creative process is key to the Goldsmiths MPhil/PhD Creative Writing.
MA in English - Creative Writing
Queen's University Belfast - Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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- Belfast, United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
1 year
On-Campus
English
If you have a commitment to imaginative writing, if you would like to develop your artistic practice, build your professional skills as an author and engage with the vibrant creative community of the Seamus Heaney Centre, then the MA in English (Creative Writing) is for you. The programme includes prose writing (fiction and creative non-fiction) and script writing (screen and stage), and invites you to explore all these modes of writing before choosing a specialism
- Cardiff, United Kingdom
Full time
1 year
On-Campus
English
Designed for improving writers with previous experience of the writer’s craft, this one-year full-time course will extend your knowledge and understanding of the practice of creative writing.
- Guildford, United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
1 year
On-Campus
English
Surrey’s MA in Creative Writing is about more than just words. It’s a pathway to finding your own unique literary voice. Drawing on the experience of our published writers and academics, you’ll engage with intriguing literary theories and writing techniques, and discover how to find your niche and engage with the publishing world.
- Cardiff, United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
On-Campus
English
The PhD programme at Cardiff caters to individuals keen to join a thriving community of writers—from novelists and memoirists to poets and scriptwriters—all of whom share the common purpose of immersing themselves in the composition of a substantial piece of creative research.
- London, United Kingdom
Full time, Part time
1 year
On-Campus
English
This MA responds to the very latest trends in Creative Writing. If you enjoy writing within the realms of psychological or gothic horror, thriller and domestic noir, fantasy, literary and weird fiction, we may well have the perfect MA for you. MA Creative Writing at Roehampton is one of the longest-running and most innovative PG programmes in the country. Throughout the programme, you will be working with established, successful writers, all of whom are here to help you take your writing to the next level. Successful writers who have graduated from the programme include Holly Pester, Rachel Knightley, and Nikki Dudley.