Creative Writing MA

Bath Spa University

Our MA in Creative Writing, available full-time and part-time, will help you to bring a novel, book of poems, book of short stories or work of non-fiction as near to publishable quality as possible. Full-time students take the course in one year part-time students in two. Working with tutors and other writers on the course, you’ll develop your writing and build up a substantial body of work. Weekly workshops are taught by a strong team of published writers, and there are regular visits by literary agents, publishers, magazine editors and broadcasters, as well as other writers.You’ll learn to:Plan a manuscript (a novel, collection of short stories, collection of poems or book of literary non-fiction) and complete it, or a substantial part of it, brought to publishable quality or as near as possible.Understand literary form, style and genre, as relevant to your chosen form of writing.Acquire a variety of relevant writing techniques, and research techniques to support writing, and adapt them to your particular creative project.Understand and respond creatively to questions arising from the subject-matter, themes, genres, traditions and other literary contexts with which your chosen manuscript is engaged.Receive and give precise and sensitive critical feedback in workshop groups and one-to-one tutorials.Respond creatively to feedback provided by tutors and other students, adapting that feedback to your particular vision of your book.Understand choices and opportunities relevant to your chosen manuscript, including questions of how to place your work, and the role of agents, publishers and editors.

School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities