MA - Creative Writing at Birmingham City University on FindAMasters.com

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Creative Arts & Design Creative Writing - Poetry Creative Writing - Prose Creative Writing - Scriptwriting Birmingham United Kingdom On Campus

About the course

Our MA in Creative Writing helps you to develop your potential as a novelist, poet, scriptwriter or non-fiction author. It is taught by distinguished writers, with the support of a superb range of guest seminars and masterclasses by visiting authors, editors and agents, through our Institute of Creative and Critical Writing.

What's covered in the course?

Our MA is aimed at emerging writers, providing you with the skills and disciplines you need to advance. It’s founded upon the philosophy that writers can benefit from the same kind of training enjoyed by actors, musicians, and visual artists.

Admission to the course is based on talent, commitment and potential. Applicants submit a portfolio of writing, published or unpublished, and are then interviewed by members of the MA teaching

Entry Requirements

You submit a portfolio of writing, published or unpublished, of recent creative work.

This must be no more than ten pages long typed at 11pt. in any literary genre, of prose (2000 words fiction or non-fiction), and/or six - 10 poems, and/or 10 pages of playscript or screenplay. We also require two satisfactory references.

We also require two satisfactory references.

You will then be interviewed by members of the MA Creative Writing team.

Applications will be considered throughout the year for entry in September of any academic year.

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Please see the university website for further information on fees for this course.

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Ms Shirley Lloyd, MA Creative Writing student and Student Academic Leader

"We are very fortunate students to have a Faculty who are pulling out all the stops to help writers of the future fulfil their writing ambitions. I appreciate the lengths that you and rest of the School of English go to, to make BCU's MA in Creative Writing course such an exciting experience. Thank you."

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