English Literature (Creative Writing) MA
University of Sheffield
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Study contemporary creative writing and develop your skills in a variety of genres and styles. Choose to specialise in either poetry or fiction, or to study both, and explore and improve your own writing through practical workshops.Course descriptionYou’ll study contemporary creative writing methods and practices and develop your skills in different genres, cross-genres and a wide range of formal and genre experimentations. You’ll also develop and explore your own creative and critical writing ...Read more

Study contemporary creative writing and develop your skills in a variety of genres and styles. Choose to specialise in either poetry or fiction, or to study both, and explore and improve your own writing through practical workshops.

Course description

You’ll study contemporary creative writing methods and practices and develop your skills in different genres, cross-genres and a wide range of formal and genre experimentations. You’ll also develop and explore your own creative and critical writing through practical workshops and the critical reading of contemporary creative and theoretical texts.

You’ll be encouraged to take all four creative writing core modules, with a minimum of three, which are designed to interact with each other theoretically, thematically and methodologically, to allow for experimentation between literary practices and productive genre crossovers.

The course culminates in a dissertation. You’ll be producing portfolios of both creative and critical work for each module and for your dissertation, all of which may take the form of poetry, prose poetry, short stories, a novel extract, poetic prose, hybrid texts and other genres, as well as formal or cross-media experimentations.

This MA will help you develop your creative writing to a publishable quality, providing a positive, friendly, nurturing, intellectual and creative environment for confident, bold and imaginative development of contemporary creative writing forms and practices. You’ll explore your own writing through practical workshops and learn how to creatively and constructively critique your own and other students' work.

You’ll benefit from the buzzing literary culture at Sheffield and get involved in public and university readings, publications and festivals throughout your time with us. You're encouraged to publish your work and to participate in student-led, peer-feedback editorial sessions.

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Heejoo
06 Dec 24

It has good facilities but the distance between the campus buildings are too far..Read more

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Emma
27 Feb 24

The SU is amazing, I love the layout of the university along a strip, all the buildings being nearby to each other and also to the town centre is great, makes it easy to integrate..Read more

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Entry requirements

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in English literature, language, linguistics or a related subject (eg history, philosophy, modern languages).

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£10,710 per year

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£23,760 per year

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£23,760 per year

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Heejoo
06 Dec 24
English Language and Literature BA (Hons)
It has good facilities but the distance between the campus buildings are too far...
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Emma
27 Feb 24
English Literature BA (Hons)
The SU is amazing, I love the layout of the university along a strip, all the buildings being nearby to each other and also to the town centre is great, makes it easy to integrate...
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University of Sheffield
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Nearest train station: Sheffield  0.7 miles away
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