MA Creative Writing

Fees for entry in 2027 have not yet been set. For reference, the fees for the academic year beginning September 2026 were as follows:

• MA (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £13,700
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £28,400
• MA (part-time)
  UK students (per annum): £6,850
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £14,200

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Fees for entry are subject to yearly review. The University reserves the right to increase your tuition fee by up to 7% each year for courses lasting more than one year, including to reflect rising costs associated with delivering our educational and wider student experience. Postgraduate fees information .

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International student CAS deposit

Self-funded international applicants are required to pay a deposit of £2500 towards their tuition fees before a confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) is issued. Some applicants will be required to pay a higher deposit. More information on tuition fee deposits .

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This course unit follows on from the Fiction Workshop I and further develops the skills and knowledge acquired in that course unit. Students will again meet each week to discuss each others work under the supervision of a tutor.

-To further develop students critical reading skills, so they are able to offer clear and constructive feedback on work-in-progress
-To further explore at the practical level the particular demands and difficulties of writing literary fiction.
-To encourage students to revise and develop their own writing by responding intelligently and selectively to a variety of forms of feedback.
-To enable students to develop the knowledge and confidence to write a successful dissertation of 15, 000 words

-Make clear and useful suggestions as to how to revise the early draft of a work-in-progress
-Recognise the typical strengths and weaknesses of their own writing so as to be able to more effectively revise and improve their work in response to feedback
-Recognise some of the particular challenges and requirements of writing literary fiction
-Confidently embark on the writing of a 15,000 word dissertation