MA Creative Writing

at University of Chichester

Learn the craft of creative writing from practicing and published writers

Our MA Creative Writing course focuses on writing as a craft.  It provides you a strong platform to develop your writing, as you experiment with the wide range of possibilities available to the contemporary writer.

You will have the opportunity to develop your skills in writing prose fiction (the novel or short story), poetry, creative non-fiction (biography, autobiography, memoir, travel), film scripts or drama for the stage or radio.

You may want to work on one project, such as a novel, throughout the course, or you may wish to explore different genres; the course allows for both options.

This list is indicative and subject to change.

The course is comprised of four taught modules and a dissertation.

• The Writing Studio
• Metaphor and the Imagination
• Sources and Transformations
• Launching the Manuscript
• The Manuscript

• An honours degree at 2:2 or higher in a related discipline

• You will be required to attend an interview and provide a portfolio of work

• If English is not your first language then English language proficiency required is IELTS 6.5 (with no element less than 5.5) – or equivalent qualification

Entry Portfolio

For entry to our MA Creative Writing course, you will be required to send in a portfolio of creative writing. This portfolio should represent some of your best work to date, so please select carefully and present accurately.

A portfolio might consist of any but not all of the following:

• Three short stories

• Three chapters from a novel or non-fiction book

• 5-8 poems

• A radio play

• Two or three scenes of a stage play

• Or a combination of the above, e.g. a short story and five poems.

Please remember to select your writing that you consider to be your best work so far and in a form that suits you.

UK fee
£6,930

International fee
£14,724

The last few years have shown a fabulous flowering of our MA Creative Writing students’ work. Many students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level have continued on to become published writers and win prizes.

In recent years, students have gone on to publish novels, poetry collections, win prizes in major competitions such as the Bridport Prize. Some have also had poems and stories published in magazines such as The Paris Review and Staple.