Mlitt Creative Writing

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.

Please include a portfolio of original work (poetry, fiction, life-writing or other prose, drama, and in some instances a portfolio of work in or of translation). A maximum of 20 pages (one side only, double spaced throughout) per submission will be considered, and the portfolio can contain prose, verse, script, or a combination of these.

Graduates have gone into journalism, publishing and writing.

You can find a list of alumni on our Creative Writing subject pages. Others have been published in magazines and journals, or have had their work produced and broadcast on radio and television.

A number of our graduates have won or been shortlisted for major prizes for poetry, short fiction and fiction including the Dundee Book Prize, Booker Prize, Bailey’s Women’s Prize, Orange Prize, Fish Short Story Award, Bridport Prize, McCash Scots Poetry Competition, Macallan and Canongate short story awards, Saltire Awards, Scottish Book of the Year Awards.

Semester 1
Core courses:

Creative Writing: Craft And Experimentation 1
Creative Writing: Editing And Publication 1
Creative Writing Workshop 1

Semester 2
Core Courses:

Creative Writing Workshop 2

Optional Courses:

Creative Writing: Editing And Publication 2
Creative Writing: Craft And Experimentation 2
Crime Fiction
Creative Writing: Of the Personal: Emotions and the Self in Creative Non-Fiction
Creative Writing: Poetry Intervenes Now: Diverse Queer Strategies of Making