Course summary
Our MA Creative Writing course is designed to help you write a novel, collection of poems, collection of stories or work of non-fiction.
- Excellent record of helping students achieve publication.
- Widely regarded as one of the best courses of its kind.
- Taught by an extremely strong team of published writers.
Modules
Workshops The first workshop module, Professional Skills, provides intensive group discussion and some plenary lectures. You’ll bring short pieces of writing to small workshop classes led by a tutor. There are separate groups for prose and poetry. You’ll submit a manuscript proposal halfway through the module. All students take this module in their first trimester. The second workshop module, either in prose or poetry, taken later in the course, continues the work in the same way. By this time, students have chosen their manuscript project. Context modules Each context module explores connections between your creative writing and the wider world as represented by a theme or genre. Seminars are divided between considering set texts and workshopping your creative writing. The set texts are examined from the point of view of practical lessons that the writer can learn. Full-time students take a context module in trimester one and another in trimester two. Part-time students take one in trimester two and one in trimester four. Manuscript module This is the culmination of the course – the book, or substantial part of a book. It is taught by means of one-to-one tutorials. Full-time students take it in trimester three; part-time students in trimester six.
Assessment method
You’ll be assessed entirely by coursework: mainly creative writing, plus two short essays, a manuscript proposal and a short commentary on the manuscript in progress.
Entry requirements
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.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £9055 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9055 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9055 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9055 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £9055 | Year 1 |
| Republic of Ireland | £9055 | Year 1 |
| EU | £17645 | Year 1 |
| International | £17645 | Year 1 |
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
Bath Spa University
Newton Park
Newton St Loe
Bath
BA2 9BN