MA Creative Writing

Applicants are required to attend an informal interview with the Programme Leader. Further details will be communicated once an application has been received.
Evidence of your writing ability is required. A sample of no more than ten pages of original writing must be submitted with all applications.
For entry to postgraduate level, you should normally possess:
first or upper second (2:1) degree with honours or professional qualification, recognised as being equivalent to degree standard;
or
an ordinary degree, foundation degree, higher national diploma, or university diploma, accompanied by substantial experience in an appropriate field.

For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more.

From scholarships and loans, to grants from charitable trusts, you can fund your postgraduate study at Plymouth in a number of ways.

Our MA Creative Writing students have the opportunity to attend our PhD Creative Writing student-led research seminar series. Each year, several of our MA students advance to the
PhD programme
.
Between them, our MA and PhD students have had books published in all forms and received many recognitions of excellence, including being shortlisted for or winning: The Forward First Book Prize for Poetry, the Bristol Short Story Prize, the international Scott prize for Short Fiction, the Edge Hill Reader’s Short Story Prize, the Manchester Metropolitan Novella Prize, and £10,000 Ballymaloe poetry prize.

Fiction: Stories and Novels
Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction
Dramatic Writing: Stage and Screen
The Business of Writing: Before and After Dissertation
Creative Writing Dissertation