MA Creative Writing

at Bath Spa University

This course includes or offers the following modules. 
 

• Professional Skills
• Prose Workshop 2
• Poetry Workshop 2
• Writing and Gender
• Writing and the Environment
• Writing with a Poet’s Eye
• The Writer and Place
• The Short Story
• Modernism and Postmodernism
• Narrative Non-Fiction
• The Love Story
• Historical Fiction
• Writing Now
• The Manuscript

What we look for in potential students
 

• We offer places on the course on the basis of your portfolio of creative writing and an interview, which for overseas applicants may be virtual or by telephone. We are looking for writers of prose fiction (any genre), poetry or literary non-fiction whom we consider to have the potential to publish their work in the near future.
• The portfolio you provide should consist of no more than twenty pages of prose fiction, poetry or literary non-fiction, or a combination of these. It is most helpful if the portfolio includes the kind of writing you wish to develop on the course.

Interview and portfolio guidance
Please send approximately 20 pages of your creative writing, representing what you consider to be your best work. If you send excerpts from a longer work, please provide a synopsis. The portfolio should accompany the application form and personal statement.

The tuition fees shown for students are for one complete academic year of full time study and are set according to the academic year of entry. Fees for subsequent years of your course may rise in line with an inflationary uplift as determined by the government. The given fees is indicative.

Throughout the year there are visits by writers, literary agents, publishers, editors, broadcasters and other professionals concerned with creative writing, who will give presentations and answer questions at evening events and in plenary lectures.