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Masters in Creative Writing in 2024

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Masters in Creative Writing

Study Creative Writing Masters Programmes

If you love to write, then pursuing a higher education in creative writing will give you a fantastic opportunity to expand on your writing skills and pursue a career in writing. Genres such as poetry, fiction, non-fiction and writing for stage and TV can be covered in your studies and you will be able to build up a body of work and a writing style all of your own.

Graduates of masters degrees in creative writing can go on to become published novelists, creators of screenplays for TV & film, work in video game story creation, work in journalism and much more.

Your masters degree will be delivered through lectures and seminars, with a possibility of group projects. Modules you study might include:

  • Reviewing literary techniques
  • Developing your writing skills
  • Beginning work on your own novel/short stories or poetry
  • Optional modules focusing on specific genre of writing

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