Course summary
Whether you’re just beginning your writing journey or looking to take your craft to the next level, our Creative Writing MA is an inclusive programme that welcomes students from all backgrounds and experiences. In a city celebrated for its literary heritage and vibrant contemporary scene, you’ll join an inclusive, supportive creative community that inspires writers at every stage. You’ll work closely with experienced academics and acclaimed authors from a diverse range of backgrounds to refine your voice, broaden your technical skills, and explore a range of genres - from prose fiction and nonfiction, to poetry and scriptwriting for stage and screen. You’ll engage with current and past writers, including through Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, and gain insights into the publishing world with industry-facing vocational modules. If your goal is to pursue a new career in writing, media, or publishing and enhance your professional skills, this course will help you unlock your full creative potential and develop your writing to a professional, publishable standard.
Assessment method
You’ll constantly share and discuss your work with your tutors and your peers. This regular feedback will strengthen your self-assessment skills - helping you develop your craft as a writer. You’ll be formally assessed via:
- Portfolios of your creative writing, with accompanying critical essays
Entry requirements
For Applicants who have an undergraduate degree that includes Creative Writing (at 2:2 or above) there is no additional requirement. This will include those who have studied a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing, or a degree where Creative Writing was either a compulsory or optional choice in their undergraduate studies and they took at least one module of Creative Writing. Applicants with an undergraduate degree in any other subject (at 2:2 or above) should submit a short piece of creative writing (of between 750 and 2,000 words). This could be a piece of prose fiction in any genre, poetry (no more than three poems of approximately 15 lines each), an example of journalism or opinion pieces, memoir, travel or nature writing, including blogs. Applicants with professional experience in writing, with no first degree in any subject, should provide a CV detailing what they have achieved in their professional work in relation to writing, in addition to the work described above.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £9950 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9950 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9950 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9950 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £9950 | Year 1 |
| EU | £18250 | Year 1 |
| International | £18250 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Fees quoted are for the first year only. If you are studying a course that lasts longer than one year, your fees will increase each year.
The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support.
Provider information
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Headington
Oxford
OX3 0BP