153 Literature, Creative Writing and Publishing MA Degree Programs in United Kingdom

This one-year postgraduate course offers access to specialist teaching from leading writers and poets.

The Master's in Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Theory offers a deep dive into literature and theory from 1945 to the present. With core modules covering aesthetics, politics, and post-1999 theory, plus optional modules, you’ll tailor your focus and prepare for a dissertation through research and writing skills training.

Consider the MA Writing programme part of the ongoing occasion of your learning, one which you have already begun, will share with us for a year, and which will then continue — irrevocably changed — once you leave. While you’re with us you will be taught a lot, but you will learn a great deal more.

The opportunity to move from the familiar Euro-American literary canons into the fresh but less well-known worlds of African and Asian literature is what attracts most students to this popular MA. While exploring new horizons and breaking out of the Euro-centric space in which comparative literature has developed so far, the programme covers the major theoretical contributions made by Western scholars.

Specialise in twentieth-century and contemporary English literature at the University of Southampton. This MA explores modern writing through cultural history, climate change, politics, gender, and visual cultures. You'll develop advanced research skills and engage with archives and manuscripts.

The MA Postcolonial Studies programme offers a focus on the historical relationships of power, domination and practices of imperialism and colonialism in the modern period (late nineteenth century to the present) through the study of literature and culture.

The MA in Comparative Literature course is ideal for students who want to look beyond conventional literary canons and engage in a comparative study across a wide range of cultures. Study literature from five different continents covering over 2,500 years, and compare literature written in many different languages from across the world and from antiquity to the present day. We offer a unique range of options from the ancient world right up to twenty-first-century European, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and American literature as well as the opportunity to develop your language skills.

Our English Literature: Modern and Contemporary Fictions MA gives you the opportunity to study English literature in a modern university environment while taking advantage of London's rich cultural life. You'll examine literary texts in the wider context of cultural production and relate them to their social, historical and political circumstances. Our team of academic specialists make use of the many nearby museums, galleries and libraries in their teaching. The course will be of particular interest if you wish to prepare for further study at MPhil or PhD level or if you're teaching English and wish to gain a further qualification and investigate current developments in the field. Studying the MA, you'll have the chance to revisit and reinvestigate the texts, critical practices, institutions and periods of English Literature in order to see it in new and exciting ways.

Explore the richness and diversity of English Literature from a wide range of periods, cultures, and genres. Strengthen your skills, develop your specialism and expand your critical and theoretical knowledge. Immerse yourself in your chosen topics and create a bespoke course that suits your interests.

The Online Children’s Literature MA/PGDip/PGCert is for ambitious readers and writers who are passionate about children’s and young adult (YA) reading, storytelling, and literary creativity. Learn from leading academics and practitioners with industry expertise, including author Michael Rosen, Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths. 

Explore English literature in depth with this master's degree at Southampton. You'll pursue literary topics across authors and periods, from Shakespeare to Holocaust literature and contemporary work. Study flexible modules in cultural analysis, textual interpretation, and theory.

Our Master's in English Literature offers a unique opportunity to study a rich body of literary and non-literary texts within the geographical landscape which inspired them. This course is offered at the University of Cumbria's Ambleside campus, which is located in the very heart of the Lake District National Park - a UNESCO world heritage site. For generations, the stunning landscape of the English Lake District has been a source of inspiration for poets and writers alike. We look forward to welcoming you onto our unique MA, to study a body of writing which explores our deep relationship with place and the natural environment, all within this awe-inspiring backdrop of this magnificent landscape.

This degree is a world first. There’s nowhere else you can study black British writing in such an in-depth way – in the actual country where the writing is produced. We trace diasporic and aesthetic routes and draw upon the expertise of literary and drama specialists.

The academic study of children’s literature has developed over the past 30 years and is now a recognised multidisciplinary field of enquiry. This programme will enable you to explore the relationship between reader, writer, text and context, and consider the critical perspectives that underpin those interactions.

Immerse yourself in exploring professional and practical approaches to children’s illustration as well as engaging in the academic study of children's literature, to gain an in-depth understanding of the relationships between image, text, readers and context in the world of children’s literature.