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Full time | Sheffield Hallam University | 1 year | SEP-25

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-25

Key information
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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Creative Writing

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

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.

Modules

Extended Project (60 Credits) - Core
Novel (30 Credits) - Core
The Contemporary Writer (30 Credits) - Core
The Craft: Short Fiction And Poetry (30 Credits) - Core
The Workshop (30 Credits) - Core

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£10,310

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£17,205

Entry requirements

A folder of original writing demonstrating postgraduate level potential and, normally, a degree in English or related discipline is required.

University information

When studying a postgraduate degree at Sheffield Hallam University, students work at the cutting-edge of their field using the latest techniques, ideas, practices and insights to address contemporary issues in their discipline, professional practice and the workplace. Founded over 175 years ago, Sheffield Hallam University has the following colleges: Business, Technology and Engineering Health Wellbeing and Life Sciences Social...more