MA Creative Writing and Education

at Goldsmiths University of London

Program structure

You have to complete 180 credits points, made up from:

One compulsory module in the Department of English and Creative Writing: 

• Workshop in Creative and Life Writing (30 credits)

Two compulsory modules in the Department of Educational Studies in association with the British Library, Poetry Society, English and Media Centre, Apples and Snakes, Ministry of Stories, The Complete Works (a distance learning version of these two modules is also offered): 

• Teaching Creative Writing (which explores how to teach creative writing) (30 credits)

• Educational Research into Creative Writing (which explores how to research creative writing) (30 credits)

• An optional module in the Department of Educational Studies (30 credits)

• A dissertation in the Department of Educational Studies and the Department of English and Creative Writing (60 credits)

Practitioners who already have existing M-level credits may transfer these on to the MA.

• An undergraduate degree of at least second-class standard in a relevant/related subject

International Tuition Fees:

£20000 per year

Career Opportunity

Alumni include Raymond Antrobus, winner of the Ted Hughes award, PBS Winter Choice, A Sunday Times Young Writer of the year award & The Guardian Poetry Book Of The Year 2018; Dean Atta, Young Adult author of The Black Flamingo; Niall Bourke, who won the 2015 Costa Short Story Award, Joshua Seighal, who was shortlisted for the National Literacy Trust Award 2015, and a number of students who have published their academic research in prestigious scholarly journals.