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Study Details: 12 months
Part-time: 24 months
This course is designed across three semesters, with each class intended to develop not just the skills aspiring writers need, but the right skills at the right stage in their development. The structure of the MLitt gives writers the freedom to pursue their chosen forms and genres in terms of their creative work, while providing guidance and support in an academic context too. The staff team aim for a collegiate, supportive atmosphere – we aren’t just a writing course, we’re a writing community.
Strathclyde staff can offer specialist tuition in a wide range of genres including:
contemporary fiction & non-fiction
historical fiction & fiction for young adults
screenwriting
poetry
A second-class Honours degree, or International equivalent, in any subject, plus a portfolio of creative writing.
The submission of a satisfactory entry portfolio of creative writing. This should consist of one of the following:
2,000 words of prose (fiction or creative non-fiction)
up to 10 poems (no more than 40 lines in length)
the page equivalent of a short, fifteen-minute play
an outline of creative work you might develop in the course of the degree, possibly in the context of the dissertation (no more than two A4 pages)
Graduates from creative writing subjects at the University of Strathclyde have gone into writing, publishing, teaching, journalism and may other professions. Some graduates have also gone on to further their skills by undertaking a PhD. Other have chosen to become self-employed as tutors.
Writers who have taken masters and/or doctoral qualifications in creative writing at Strathclyde include Louise Welsh, Rachel Sieffert, Beatrice Colin and Colette Paul.
Core modules:
The Shape of Stories 1 (20 credits)
The Writing Life (20 credits)
The Writers' Studio
The Shape of Stories 2 (20 credits)
The Made Project (20 credits)
Optional modules:
Contemporary Scottish Cultural Studies
Transcultural Fandom & British Popular Culture: Reading & Writing in Online Communities
Fleshy Histories: Meat Eating & Meat Avoidance, 1500 to the Present
English & Creative Writing Research Placement
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