Creative Writing MSt

<strong>The information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication (November 2025). For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas.</strong><br/><br/>The MSt in Creative Writing is a two-year, part-time masters degree course offering a unique combination of high contact hours, genre specialisation, and critical and creative breadth.<br/><br/>The MSt in Creative Writing is a two-year, part-time masters degree course offering a unique combination of high contact hours, genre specialisation, and critical and creative breadth.<br/><br/>The emphasis of the course is cross-cultural and cross-genre, pointing up the needs and challenges of the contemporary writer who produces their creative work in the context of a global writerly and critical community. <br/><br/>Course structure<br/>The first year focuses across genres and includes a significant critical reading and analysis component, which is linked to the writerly considerations explored in each of the genres. In your second year you will specialise in an option area.<br/><br/>The residences in particular offer an intensive workshop and seminar-based forum for the exchange of ideas and opening up of creative and critical frameworks within which to develop writerly and analytical skills. There is a strong element of one-to-one tutorial teaching. Tutorials take place within residences and retreats, and relate to the on-going work produced for the course.<br/><br/>The research placement, a distinguishing feature of the course, provides between one and two weeks in-house experience of writing in the real world.