Course summary

• Work under the guidance of internationally acclaimed writers of fiction and poetry.
• Graduate with a coherent and extensive body of creative work.
• Hone your skills with a focus on writing, reinforced with sound criticism and editing.
• Acquire the discipline and market awareness needed to create publishable work.
• Join numerous acclaimed authors as an alumnus of a longstanding, well-regarded course.

This course takes your work, and your ambition, seriously. You'll focus on your own writing, under the guidance of acclaimed authors of fiction and poetry. You'll leave with a body of work you can be proud of.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

With a focus on the disciplined honing of your skills, this course is designed to help you become a publishable writer. You'll be assessed on writing projects frequently, with a culture of self-reflection and peer reviews. You'll take part in genre-specific creative workshops, benefit from one-to-one tutelage and take modules based around criticism and research acquiring the grounding that underpins great work.

You learn through

• seminars and tutorials
• frequent assessment, culminating in a major project
• genre-specific creative workshops
• masterclasses with writers, publishers, agents and other literary figures
• presentations
• editing sessions
• critical, theoretical and research-based modules
• one-to-one tutorials

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• writing fiction, poetry, children's writing and memoir
• editing
• teaching
• further research
• blog and online writing
• copyediting, proofreading and ghost-writing
• reviewing and criticism
• copywriting.