Creative Writing MA

<strong>Our MA in Creative Writing helps you to develop your potential as a novelist, poet, scriptwriter or non-fiction author. It is taught by distinguished writers, with the support of a superb range of guest seminars and masterclasses by visiting authors, editors and agents, through our Institute of Creative and Critical Writing.</strong><br/><br/><strong>Whats covered in this course?</strong><br/>Our MA Creative Writing will help you to fulfil your potential as a writer, whether you work in fiction, poetry, screenplay or creative non-fiction. It is taught by distinguished authors, with the support of a superb range of guest seminars by visiting speakers organised through our Institute of Creative and Critical Writing.<br/><br/>Writers are perpetual students. Our programme is designed to help you learn how to keep learning, enriching and refining your practice as an independent author, through disciplines that strengthen your creative imagination, develop your literary knowledge, and cultivate your critical sensitivity.<br/><br/>You will hone the skills you need and refine your practice in an atmosphere of creative experiment. Our course is founded upon the philosophy that writers can benefit from the same kind of professional training enjoyed by actors, dancers, musicians, and visual artists, and connects our writers to the creative sector in which they work.<br/><br/>You’ll have the opportunity to develop your writing across forms and extend your range in fields that may be new to you, under specialist guidance in fiction, poetry, screenwriting and creative non-fiction. You’ll be part of a Faculty with a long history of working with the creative industries, and a College with strong connections to literary culture beyond the university, including Writing West Midlands, the Birmingham Literature Festival, the National Writers’ Conference, Verve Poetry Festival, The Emma Press, and Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, which was founded by alumni of the MA Creative Writing programme. Like our partners, we see the literary arts and their study and enjoyment as fundamental to civic and cultural life.<br/><br/>Writers help shape the culture into which new literary works are received, as readers and thinkers, and our MA Creative Writing emphasises the close relationship between creativity and critical awareness. You will be introduced to ways of conceptualising creative writing as a form of knowledge and research, and each of our modules will help you to explore and apply critical methods both to your own work and the contexts in which it will be read.<br/><br/>Our course will help you become more confident in developing and presenting your writing across the key areas in which contemporary authors work: in print publication, on digital platforms, and in-person public events.<br/><br/>You will belong to a community of writers that includes your tutors, who will share with you their insight, experience, and practical advice. The range and flexibility of our programme, together with our emphasis on small-group teaching, enables you both to deepen and broaden your practice and to focus on your distinctive needs as a writer.<br/><br/>Students from the MA Creative Writing form the editorial committee for the annual anthology of new creative writing from the College of English and Media, and benefit from the support and guidance of an Editorial Consultant with many years of experience in the industry.<br/><br/>Each spring, we offer an exclusive writing retreat to our MA Creative Writing students – a rare and exciting opportunity to develop your work in a conducive environment at a key stage in the programme.<br/><br/>We welcome students of any age and background who are committed to developing their practice as a writer