MA Writing For Young People

at Bath Spa University

Modules:
 

• Writing Workshop
• Context Module One: Writing for Young People: Forms, Ages and Stages
• Writing Workshop
• Writing for Young People: Contemporary Children’s Publishing
• The Manuscript 

What we look for in potential students
 

• We relish how different all our students are. Our MA Writing for Young People students are passionate about children’s and Young Adult literature, committed to developing their craft, open to considering a wide range of views, willing to engage with all sorts of aspects of writing and publishing books for children and teens.
• Our students are also able to be analytical and take a conscientious approach to helping their peers develop and learn through constructive feedback.
• We're looking for people who have the potential to be published, who have some understanding of the current children’s publishing landscape, and who have something special to contribute to their fellow students.

Typical offers
 

• Most applicants will have an undergraduate degree however we're willing to look at applications from those with non-traditional academic or work backgrounds who meet the criteria summarised above.
• It's not necessary to have a degree in English, Creative Writing or related disciplines; your engagement with children’s and Young Adult literature as a reader and writer is more important than the field of previous study.

UK Students: 
£8,650 per year

International Students:
£16,860 per year

Over 70 of our alumni have now been traditionally published. Our graduates also go into editing (freelance and at a publishing house), agenting, rights, marketing, publicity, sales, events management and teaching. They have careers in journalism, writing for magazines, teaching, various aspects of publishing, and television.

Our published graduates have secured contracts with, among others:
 

• The Andersen Press
• Bloomsbury
• Chicken House
• Egmont
• Faber & Faber
• Gullane
• Hot Key Books
• Nosy Crow
• Orion
• Oxford University Press
• Penguin
• Quercus
• Scholastic
• Simon and Schuster
• Templar
• Walker Books.