This degree provides a rare opportunity to develop both your creative and critical writing at Master's level, and indeed to explore, if you wish, radical fusions of these two modes. You will take the in-common module ‘Research Training and Professional Practice,’ exploring the many ways that your writing can flourish both within the academy and beyond. In addition, you will select two Creative Writing modules and two modules in Literary Studies. You will also complete a Creative Writing Portfolio, which comprises of a creative piece and a critical essay. We’ve been helping creative writers reach their potential since 1970. From day one, our focus has always been on helping our students hone their work, and sharpen the myriad skills involved in writing at the very highest levels. With our many author-tutors, you can practice in traditional forms such as the short story, the novel, poetry, theatre, as well as digital media, life-writing, place-writing, graphic novels, writing for games, the lyric essay, and writing for young adults. Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Lancaster means not only a deep and close engagement with writing itself but the opportunity, if you wish, to explore how literature opens onto many other worlds – politics, ecology, philosophy, psychology, theology, film, and fashion, etc. To support this, you can if you wish take one a module from outside of the Department -- in, say, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Politics, Sociology or Film Studies (subject to availability).