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Creative Writing MLitt (Online)

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Online | University of Glasgow | 12 months | SEP-25

Study mode

Online

Duration

12 months

Start date

SEP-25

Key information
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Qualification type

MLitt - Master of Letters

Subject areas

Creative Writing

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

If you're a talented and ambitious writer looking to develop your craft and take your writing to the next level, Glasgow's renowned Creative Writing MLitt is ideal. Develop your writing practice wherever you are in the world by gaining creative and critical skills on this exciting and supportive online course.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

Our MLitt in Creative Writing is delivered within a clear three-part structure, focused on creative, critical and editorial skills.

Our Creative Writing programme has gained an excellent reputation with writers, agents and publishers. The University's writing courses are among the most challenging and popular in the UK.

These courses have helped launch the careers of an impressive list of acclaimed authors including, but not limited to: Anne Donovan, Helen Sedgwick, Kirsty Logan, Jen Hadfield, JL Williams, Louise Welsh, Zoe Strachan, Elizabeth Reeder and many others.

You'll be taught by successful and well-regarded writers who specialise across diverse genres. We are happy to supervise students working in established genres but just as keen to see students mix genres or create new forms. In addition, you'll be able to tap into the University's strong network of literary agents and publishers, as well as an impressive list of published alumni.

This online programme is 1 year full time. If you are already working full time or have family commitments, the course can also be completed on a part-time flexible study basis over 2 years.

CAREER PROSPECTS

Skills gained in the study of our Creative Writing MLitt may lead to career opportunities in literary and cultural fields such as editing, publishing and arts development. Many of our alumni are successful authors. Our graduates have also gone into journalism, publishing, and a range of other professions. Positions held by recent graduates include managing director, freelance writer, author, copywriter and community arts worker.

Modules

This course of independent study, supported by one-to-one tutorials, aims to give students the time and attention to consolidate and apply the knowledge and skills they've acquired in the seminars and workshops over the course of the programme. On this course students write and edit their final Creative Writing MLitt Portfolio, which represents a submission of what each student deems to be their best, original, creative work written while on the course. The portfolio can be a single work or include several pieces. A portfolio of collected work might include poetry, script, fiction, non-fiction, and/or experimental work. The portfolio will consist of a creative submission of no more than 15,000 words prose (or a max of 600 lines poetry or equivalences for hybrid forms) and must be written and edited to a high standard.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£10,650

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£22,140

Entry requirements

You will normally have a 2:1 Honours degree (or equivalent), though this is not a pre-requisite. The primary basis for admission is the appraisal of a portfolio of your creative work.

University information

The University of Glasgow is one of four ancient universities in Scotland, founded back in 1451. Alumni include seven Nobel Prize winners, Scotland’s First Minister and a Prime Minister, while Albert Einstein gave a seminal lecture on the theory of relativity there in 1933. The university consists of four colleges: College of Arts College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences College of Science and Engineering College of...more

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