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This programme is for those who have completed an undergraduate degree containing some creative writing or for English graduates with considerable experience in writing creatively and who wish to proceed to a career or further study in this area. You will receive instruction and experience across a range of writing types, including new media, collaborating with other students across genres before specialising in either screenwriting, playwriting, fiction or poetry for your dissertation. You?ll be joining a lively writing community. The undergraduate Creative Writing programme and Creative Writing Societies provide an energetic and talented scene in which to write. There are regular events, readings, poetry slams and student publications. and Creative Writing Societies provide an energetic and talented scene in which to write. There are regular events, readings, poetry slams and student publications. We have links to the award winning local press Tindal Street and the boutique poetry pamphlet publishers Nine Arches Press, including visting lectures from writers, publishers and editors. The programme brings together students who are working in different genres so that you can engage collaboratively across genres before specialising (in screenwriting, playwriting, fiction or poetry) for your dissertation. You take four core modules and two optional modules. Core modules: Creative Writing: Research Skills I: Theories and Practice Creative Writing Research Skills II: Theories, Models, Self Poem as Story - Story as Poem Intertextuality: Story, Genre, Craft The optional modules include: Narrative Analysis of Fiction and Film Film, Theory, and Politics Media Documentary Writing You will also complete a 12,000 word dissertation. Your dissertation will be 75% creative portfolio and 25% critical essay. You will write a 20,000-25,000 word portfolio of creative work in as a screenplay, novella, excerpt of a novel, a collection of short fiction or a collection of poetry. This will be accompanied by a 5,000 word essay placing your work in a critical and creative context, with reference to your development as a writer over the course of the MA. You will receive feedback on work in progress during one-to-one tutorials and in work-sharing seminars with peers (groups divided along the lines of genreform). Assessment The programme is assessed by creative portfolios and assignments throughout the taught modules. In the final term you complete a dissertation comprising a full-length creative work of your choice (a collection of poetry or short stories, a novella, a screenplay or stage drama) supported by a critical essay.

International students Academic requirements We accept a range of qualifications; our country pages show you what qualifications we accept from your country. English language requirements You can satisfy our English language requirements in two ways: drama) sItemalue+oSn++???A????#? ?+???????????????????????????????????+S