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MA in Creative Writing and English Literature

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Our MA Creative Writing and English Literature course is perfect if you want to enhance your creative writing skills but are also interested in English Literature.

You’ll study contemporary text with published writers and scholars and can specialise in either creative writing or English Literature – or both.

About this course

This course gives you the perfect opportunity to combine your love of studying literature with learning the skills you need to successfully write your own.

You’ll gain insight into society, culture and politics by developing an understanding of the power of language while receiving a thorough grounding in research methods and practices.

Full flexibility means you can choose to focus on the writers, or forms of writing, that most interest you while tailoring this course to your interests in either Creative Writing, English Literature, or both.

This course has received 100% overall satisfaction from our MA students in the national 2023/24 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES), with 100% agreeing that they feel better prepared for their future careers.

Guided by published scholars and authors, the literature modules explore cutting-edge themes, including gender and sexuality, climate fiction and intertextuality. Creative writing modules allow students to focus their interests on both fiction and non-fiction prose forms, as well as sci-fi and fantasy

The course culminates in a creative writing portfolio, where you will produce an extended creative piece in a genre of your choice.

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We normally require a 2:2 undergraduate degree in English (literary studies/creative writing) or a cognate humanities discipline or international equivalent. With your application, you must submit a satisfactory 2000 to 3000-word sample of your written work, consisting of either literary criticism or creative writing, on a subject of your choice. You can use written work that you have previously produced for your coursework.

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Set the narrative on your creative career, turning your passion for writing and film into in-demand skills for the modern job market.You’ll experiment with all genres – from Sci-Fi to fairytale – across a range of forms such as scriptwriting, non-fiction, short stories, the novel and poetry. Our experts are fans, too. They’ll take you through film and television as art, history, culture, entertainment and commerce.But you won’t just learn in the classroom. You’ll get the chance to boost your CV through our links with Screen Yorkshire’s Connected Campus, preparing you for life in the industry through masterclasses, workshops and visiting speakers.

- 3rd in the UK for Student Satisfaction¹: You’ll learn from published poets, fiction writers and scriptwriters, as well as experts in horror, TV drama, Disney, and East Asian, British and Hollywood cinema. - Real-world experience: Boost your CV through bootcamps, workshops and masterclasses with Screen Yorkshire’s Connected Campus scheme.- 1 million books on your shelf: Access an incredible trove of materials in our seven-storey library, home to over one million books and extensive digital resources from libraries and archives worldwide.

You’ll graduate ready to flourish in roles where employers value creative thinking. And with a portfolio of work showcasing your adaptable job-ready skills and ability to tailor your messaging for different audiences. You could go on to work in film, TV and the theatre as a playwright, director, scriptwriter or presenter. Roles in publishing, advertising or marketing are within reach, too, with this degree.¹ (Creative Writing) The Complete University Guide 2024.

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Points can be from any qualification on the UCAS tariff, but must include at least 80 points from A levelsBTEC Subsidiary Diploma, Diploma or Extended DiplomaOCR Cambridge Technical Introductory Diploma, Diploma or Extended DiplomaCACHE Diploma or Extended DiplomaIrish Leaving CertificateScottish HighersWelsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diplomaor a combination of appropriate Level 3 qualifications

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Where will this course lead.

This is an enjoyable and varied course for all levels of writers. It will cover all aspects of creative writing, in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.

What will I study?

Homework is set each week and is optional, however your learning will be enhanced by doing so. 

Students are encouraged to read their work out in the class, but only if they feel confident enough to do so and nobody is under any pressure to do anything they're not comfortable with. 

You will learn by practical and creative written exercises, group discussion and by constructive feedback from the class and tutor. 

All sessions take place in a friendly, positive atmosphere where everyone is allowed to work at their own pace. 

Over each course we shall look at n many aspects and genres of creative writing. 

At various points we shall look at how to write fiction, non-fiction, memoir, poetry, screenwriting, detective stories, short stories, longer fiction, magazine articles and on-line content, amomgst others and also at the techniques that will help you craft your writing and make it more publishable. 

How will this course be delivered?

Classroom based, 10 x 2 hour sessions per term. 

What qualifications will I get?

This is a non-certificated, personal development course.

How will I be assessed?

This course is for personal development and is informally assessed by the tutor with self-assessment and evaluation by the student. 

How do I get a place on the course?

Enrolment opportunities are available throughout the year. Please contact us for more details on 0121 678 7000 - option 2 or e-mail  [email protected]

What are the entry requirements?

Students must be 19+ 

If you have a learning difficulty or disability, please let us know when you apply.

What else do I need to know?

Bring a paper and pen, or a laptop or other device to each class as we write during the class. 

There is homework most weeks, which is a good idea to do as it gives the tutor chance to assess and advise on your work, but it is not compulsory. 

Come open minded and be prepared to be challenged as a writer. 

Many past students have used what they've learnt during the course to go on and become published writers and students are encouraged to follow this pathway if they so choose and is what they want to achieve ultimately as a writer.

This course will run subject to a minimum class size.

What can I do after this course?

Study for an MA in creative writing at university. 

Study and develop your writing skills further in groups or other courses. 

Become a published author. 

Work as a freelance writer, writing content for a variety of clients in many media. 

Work as a freelance editor. 

Become a screenplay writer, or playwright. 

Become a performance poet.

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Whether you’re looking to develop your own writing skills and editorial practice for your profession or for purely personal interest, our creative writing courses have much to offer you. Choose below from our range of qualifications.

Creative Writing Degrees  Degrees Also known as an undergraduate or bachelors degree. Internationally respected, universally understood. An essential requirement for many high-level jobs. Gain a thorough understanding of your subject – and the tools to investigate, think critically, form reasoned arguments, solve problems and communicate effectively in new contexts. Progress to higher level study, such as a postgraduate diploma or masters degree.

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Creative Writing Diplomas  Diplomas Widely recognised qualification. Equivalent to the first two thirds of an honours degree. Enhance your professional and technical skills or extend your knowledge and understanding of a subject. Study for interest or career development. Top up to a full honours degree in just two years.

Creative writing certificates  certificates widely recognised qualification. equivalent to the first third of an honours degree. study for interest or career development. shows that you can study successfully at university level. count it towards further qualifications such as a diphe or honours degree., why study creative writing with the open university.

Since 2003, over 50,000 students have completed one of our critically acclaimed creative writing modules. 

The benefits of studying creative writing with us are:

• Develops your writing skills in several genres including fiction, poetry, life writing and scriptwriting.
• Introduces you to the world of publishing and the requirements of professionally presenting manuscripts.
• Online tutor-group forums enable you to be part of an interactive writing community.
• Module workbooks are widely praised and used by other universities and have attracted worldwide sales.

Careers in Creative Writing

Studying creative writing will equip you with an adaptable set of skills that can give entry to a vast range of occupations. You’ll learn to evaluate and assimilate information in constructing an argument as well as acquiring the skills of creative and critical thinking that are much in demand in the workplace.

Our range of courses in creative writing can help you start or progress your career in:

• Arts, creative industries, culture and heritage
• Advertising, marketing, communications and public relations
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• Public administration, civil service and local government

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Study English Literature in the city described as the most poetic in England, where Philip Larkin wrote some of his best work.

You’ll gain insight into society, culture and politics by developing an understanding of the power of language and why it affects how we interpret and communicate with the world around us.

Through our MA English Literature course, you’ll explore global literature with internationally renowned researchers, working on real-world projects, covering themes such as sustainability, collaboration and resilience.

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Through seminars, creative writing workshops, student presentations and small group exercises you’ll study a range of cutting-edge modules, acquiring knowledge in a variety of subjects and genres within English studies.

Supported by internationally renowned researchers, you’ll gain skills in independent writing and research and develop a set of professional competencies for use in your future career. You will also gain insight into key research areas in the field of English Literature, as well as explore contemporary global issues and challenges.

This highly flexible MA programme allows you to choose the writers, or forms of writing, that most interest you. All students take the compulsory research module in Trimester 1, designed to provide and encourage the development of a set of competencies in creativity, engagement, and communication. Students also take an innovative module exploring literature and the emotions, where you'll be introduced to a wide range of texts and theoretical perspectives. You then choose two additional modules in English Literature, including such topics as gender, intertextuality, and the environment. 

The programme culminates in a summer research project leading to a dissertation. You choose the project and then work on it over the summer months with dedicated support from an academic subject specialist.

Choose your modules

For a full Masters degree, you'll study 180 credits over the duration of your course. Some programmes offer a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) qualification or a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) qualification. For a PGDip, you'll study 120 credits, and for a PGCert, you'll study 60 credits.

Research, Creativity and Engagement

You'll be trained in research and practice-based methods in literary studies, creative writing or both. You'll work with the University-based  Journal of Gender Studies  to develop your reviewing skills or preparing your work for publication skills. You'll then present aspects of your research at a conference day.

Literature and the Emotions

This innovative module considers a variety of literary texts in relation to current critical and theoretical work on the history of emotions. You will study a number of emotions in their cultural and historical contexts, and how they are represented in Renaissance literature, Romantic poetry, and contemporary fiction.

Dissertation

What fascinates you? You will make an original contribution to research by designing, carrying out and writing up a project on a topic of your choice, supported by your dissertation supervisor.

Gender in Popular Culture

This module analyses masculinity and femininity in genres central to contemporary popular fiction and film, such as crime fiction, chick and lad lit, war fiction, true crime and the gangster movie. You'll analyse these novels and films using the theoretical perspectives of Bakhtin, Foucault, Butler, Bourdieu and Fiske.

Climate Fiction: Writing Water in a Warming World

This module focuses on representations of water in contemporary climate fiction. You will explore the capacity of fiction to imagine possible futures, alongside concepts including eco-anxiety, environmental injustice, and sustainability.

Shakespearean Transformations

You will be introduced to classical and early modern theories of imitation and originality, and modern theories of intertextuality as a starting point for considering how works by Shakespeare and other early modern writers can be understood as intertextual ‘transformations’ in relation to both classical and medieval precursors, and contemporary works of fiction and art.

All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.

Important information

You’re taught by internationally-renowned scholars, published poets, fiction writers, and scriptwriters. People who bring their expertise, creativity and passion into everything you learn.

We’re part of the Larkin Centre research group. In REF 2021, 93% of our research was ranked world-leading or internationally excellent. 1

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Dr Stewart Mottram

Dr Stewart Mottram specialises in environmental approaches to literature, focussing on the writing of flood risk regions across time. He works with environmental specialists to foreground the history of flooding and its role in shaping cultures.

Dr Anna Fitzer

Anna researches representations of sentiment, sensibility, and libertinism in 18th-century fiction and drama, women's writing, and early Romantic literary biography and memoir. She has written extensively about Frances Sheridan and her daughters.

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We normally require a 2:2 undergraduate degree in English (literary studies/creative writing) or a cognate humanities discipline or  international equivalent .

If you’re an undergraduate student at Hull, you’re guaranteed a fast-track route to this postgraduate degree, as long as you meet the entry requirements.

In order to ensure our students have a rich learning and student experience, most of our programmes have a mix of domestic and international students. We reserve the right to close applications early to either group if application volumes suggest that this blend cannot be achieved.

If you require a student visa to study or if your first language is not English you will be required to provide acceptable evidence of your English language proficiency level.

This course requires academic IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 5.5 in each skill. See other English language proficiency qualifications accepted by the University of Hull.

If your English currently does not reach the University’s required standard for this programme, you may be interested in one of our English language courses .

Visit your country page to find out more about our entry requirements.

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How much is it.

Your tuition fees will cover most costs associated with your programme. There are some extra costs that you might have to pay, or choose to pay, depending on your programme of study and the decisions you make:

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Remember, you’ll still need to take into account your living costs. This could include accommodation, travel, food and more.

How do I pay for it?

UK students can take out a Masters Loan to help with tuition fees and living costs. For 2024 entry, they provide up to £12,471 for full-time and part-time taught and research Masters courses in all subject areas. Find out more about Postgraduate Loans .

If you choose to study part-time, fees are charged pro-rata to the full-time fee, according to the number of credits being studied. 

Tuition fees for the 2025/26 academic year are still being finalised and may change. Confirmed fees will be available by June 2024.

International applicants may need to pay a tuition fee deposit before the start of the course. Visit our tuition fee deposit page for more information.

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We offer a number of awards, bursaries and scholarships for eligible students. They’re awarded for a variety of reasons including academic achievement and/or to help those on lower incomes.

Scholarships and bursaries are separate to student loans. And the best bit is, you don’t pay a penny back.

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Alumni Postgraduate Scholarship

University of Hull undergraduates progressing to a taught masters course may receive a 25% discount on the cost of their tuition fees.

Find out if you’re eligible by visiting the University of Hull Alumni Postgraduate Scholarship page.

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Creative Writing Taster: Unlock Your Story

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Course Aims

This three-hour taster session is designed to give you a feel for creative writing, spark your creativity, and provide a glimpse into what the full course offers. The session will include engaging activities, brief lessons on key writing concepts, and opportunities to share and receive feedback.

Entry Requirements

There are no entry requirements. Please choose  one  workshop from the sessions available.

How to apply

For information on how to apply, please call 01482 615 349 / 616 580 or email: [email protected]

Course Content

The session is split along different creative writing topics:

• Welcome and Introductions
• Overview of Creative Writing
• Free Writing Exercise
• Elements of Stroytelling
• Character Creation
• Setting and Description
• Crafting a Mini-Story
• Wrap-Up and Q&A

Assessment Method

This is a RARPA based course, assessment is carried out though building of a portfolio and taking part within tasks matched to the individual’s personal targets.

RARPA stands for Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement which is the process of assessment for non-accredited learning. It is a means of validating the outcomes of programmes which do not result in qualifications. RARPA is a five-stage process which measures and records learners’ progress, achievements and attendance.

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University of Hull

Degree level: undergraduate, creative writing and english, course options.

University of Hull has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

Course summary

Want to study in a place that’s been called the UK’s “most poetic city”? You’ve found it. Hull has inspired literary luminaries such as Philip Larkin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Winifred Holtby, Tom Paulin, Stevie Smith, and many more. Experience stimulating conversations with published experts, lively meetings with like-minded English Society members, and breathtaking, writers-block-banishing views from our seven-storey library. You'll hone your writing skills on real-world projects, studying medieval to contemporary global literature in our vibrant, buzzing faculty. On this course, you’ll develop creative thinking skills and the ability to express them effectively, leading to a broad range of career opportunities. Why study at Hull?

• 3rd in the UK for Student Satisfaction¹: We’ve been teaching English for nearly 100 years. You’ll learn from published poets, fiction writers, scriptwriters and scholars.
• 1 million books on your shelf: Access an incredible trove of materials in our seven-storey library, home to over one million books and extensive digital resources.
• Publish your work on and off the page: Join our student-led English Society, perform your work at HUWrites, and publish with our in-house magazines, Document 1 and Hull Scribbler.

Core modules include: The Writer’s Toolkit Poetry, Past and Present Exploring English Drama, Conflict and Identity The Storyteller’s Art Creative Writing Portfolio Optional modules include: Scriptwriting Writing Poetry Now Dystopian Fiction Love, Desire, Death Writing the Novel The Short Story Gothic Imagination

Assessment method

You'll be assessed through a combination of written, practical and coursework assessments throughout your degree. Written assessment typically includes exams and multiple choice tests. Practical is an assessment of your skills and competencies. This could include presentations, school experience, work experience or laboratory work. Coursework typically includes essays, written assignments, dissertations, research projects or producing a portfolio of your work.

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Entry requirements

Qualification requirements, ucas tariff - 120 points, access to he diploma, international baccalaureate diploma programme - 30 points, t level - m.

Applicants with other qualifications are welcome to apply.

English language requirements

Please click below for a list of the English language qualifications we accept.

https://www.hull.ac.uk/Choose-Hull/Study-at-Hull/Admissions/English-language-requirements.aspx

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GCSE/IGCSE English Language: Write a Description of a Mysterious Place, Sample Answer!

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How studying creative writing led to my first book

This post is by Dr Chris Westoby, Programme Director for the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Hull Online. He tells us about how studying creative writing led to him becoming a published author.

I enrolled in the MA Creative Writing back in 2011, here on campus at the University of Hull. The programme was akin to what we run online today. Its objective was to output a complete prose writer of fiction and nonfiction, in both short and longform.

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We were assured, in every module, that our groups represented a safe place: there would be no judgement for trying new avenues of writing, taking risks, experimenting and facing down difficult subjects. In fact, these things were encouraged in a firm and supportive invitation to step into the unknown, alongside peers doing the same. We were taking that step together. Tutors introduced themselves not as the teacher , but rather as fellow writers who find each session valuable to their own writing too.

‘The Base of Death Hill’ was a short nonfiction piece I wrote for what is now our Writing from Life module; it was about my hometown, its history, and my place in it. But tucked away in an otherwise comedic essay was a confession—barely a sentence—that I was unable to leave this town.

It was the first time, ever, that I’d opened up about my lifelong mental illness. My tutor Martin Goodman, who went on to found the University of Hull Online MA in Creative Writing , spotted this and asked whether I had considered expanding on it via a doctorate. I wanted to use creative writing to study mental health, to make a statement of how much we can better our understanding of such things if we listen to the stories of sufferers.

The University of Hull introduced me to a supervisor from Creative Writing and another from the Health Sciences. I learned that the university is all about making connections, networking, academic and personal support, and the nurturing of ideas.

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My supervisors introduced me to colleagues from their respective faculties, each with their own specialities and knowledge to offer in developing my writing. I was invited to share knowledge between the two faculties in forums and seminars, and in turn I introduced colleagues from across the campus with shared interests to each other. This snowballed into teaching opportunities, conference presentations, and eventually a career. It’s incredible where a single sentence can lead.

As for the writing itself, it was intense stuff. Writing a thesis which centred around my experiences of mental illness took an emotional toll – as can any writing. My supervisors monitored this, offering not only academic guidance but also personal support.

It took time to find my footing. I was writing about my experience interlaced with scientific details of my condition, the history of it, society’s understanding of it, the ongoing research. But the more I studied the research and the nonfiction account of others, the more I realised my thesis had been done before. And in those papers and books I read, between the swathes of facts and figures, it was always the personal stories which made me truly understand the condition they were referring to.

So these essayish elements of my work were being stripped away, more and more, until nothing was left but a raw account, an experience, where the reader can make their own diagnosis or study the ripples of influence that mental health has on surrounding loved ones, or simply read it at face value as a narrative. This is the power stories have: they are informative, but most importantly they can connect to the reader and achieve an empathetic understanding.

Fast-forward to today. With the Hull Online MA Creative Writing, I want students to celebrate this opportunity for connectedness. Everyone joins from different corners of the world, unified by a love of writing. It’s a venture into forms of writing we didn’t know we could do, and we do it together. My thesis has been accepted by Barbican Press and is being published later this year as my first book, The Fear Talking .

Chris Westoby's debut book

Its sequel is already being written. This all began with the MA, within a supportive community of writers who encouraged me to step into the unknown.

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