Creative Writing MA
University of Derby
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This practice based taught MA is designed to develop, hone and extend your writing. It is intended to prepare you for a successful career as arts professional.Course description100% of students said that they were satisfied with the overall quality of this course, according to the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, 2019The programme offers you a range of tutor and peer-led opportunities to produce new writing and critically reflect on that practice. We focus on the expressive potential and ...Read more

This practice based taught MA is designed to develop, hone and extend your writing. It is intended to prepare you for a successful career as arts professional.

Course description

  • 100% of students said that they were satisfied with the overall quality of this course, according to the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, 2019
  • The programme offers you a range of tutor and peer-led opportunities to produce new writing and critically reflect on that practice. We focus on the expressive potential and persuasive power of language whilst encouraging you to critically explore texts and their relationship to the world.
  • The course will develop writing; be that in prose, poetry, life writing, creative non-fiction, script-writing or in combination or discussion across these forms. In addition, two industry-specific pathways have been developed to focus on employability in specific sectors:
  • Creative Writing for Gaming focuses on character and narrative design, gamification and digital games.
  • Creative Writing with Publishing allows students to work on the production of books by taking two modules from our successful and well regarded MA Publishing.
  • The degree without a specialist pathway maintains a strong focus on employability. All students receive advice and guidance from working writers who will take you through contracts and tax, the business of publishing and how to run a workshop.
  • The course gives all students the opportunity to undertake arranged work experience in the arts or in communication. Graduates leave this MA with a portfolio of their own writing, prepared for a career as arts professionals (including but not limited to publication) and progression to doctoral level study.

Careers

Considerable care and attention have been devoted to ensuring that graduate employability is a central feature of the MA Creative Writing programme. When recruiting graduates, UK employers place particular emphasis on the specific skills, the professional experience and the area of degree specialisation of students; these are central and fundamental to this programme of study. Not only is the programme orientated towards employability via the prescribed module 'Working as a writer', each pathway imparts specific skills, intellectual abilities and industry-specific knowledge in order to help prepare you for publication, employment, freelance work, self-employment, or business set-up.

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30/101
CUG Subject Ranking
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47th
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95th
What students say
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Joshua
10 Dec 24

Facilities and everything are good. The only negatives worth mentioning are the fact that one of the lifts for the North Tower portion of the campus always breaks, which is..Read more

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Catherine
11 Jan 24

The lecturers are amazing, incredibly supportive and always super helpful. Some accommodations are a bit far away from the actual campus but the buses do make getting to uni much..Read more

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Entry requirements

The entry requirement to this programme is a good honours degree (1st or 2:1) in any subject, or its international equivalent. Applications may be considered if you have a 2:2 honours degree and/or can demonstrate significant experience with creative writing or related industry experience or aptitude. Such students would have plans for a creative project, which they would wish to follow through to completion.

Tuition fees

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£9,450 per year

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Students from Domestic

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£9,450 for the full course

£14,900 per year

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Students from EU

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The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.

£14,900 per year

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Joshua
10 Dec 24
Creative Writing and Publishing with Foundation Year BA (Hons)
Facilities and everything are good. The only negatives worth mentioning are the fact that one of the lifts for the North Tower portion of the campus always breaks, which is...
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C
Catherine
11 Jan 24
Creative Writing and Publishing BA (Hons)
The lecturers are amazing, incredibly supportive and always super helpful. Some accommodations are a bit far away from the actual campus but the buses do make getting to uni much...
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University of Derby
Kedleston Road Derby DE22 1GB United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Peartree  1.8 miles away

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