MA Art Creative Writing

The Creative Writing MA course at the University of Leicester offers an intensive, creative and inspiring environment for exploring and honing your writing talents and skills. This course is designed to develop your writing skills in a range of genres and media, demonstrating the complexity and diversity of contemporary literary and cultural landscapes.Course Content: The course focuses on contemporary literary and cultural theory alongside your own production of original creative work. It includes common modules like Reading as a Writer and Writing as a Reader, which allows you to explore different aspects of the writing process and different forms of writing including Prose Fiction, Scriptwriting, Poetry, Life Writing and more. Optional modules like Thinking Translation: Theory, Practice, and Profession and Postcolonial Literature and Theory help you diversify your craft.Key Modules: Core modules include Creative Writing Dissertation, Research Methods for Creative Writing, Reading as a Writer, and Writing as a Reader. Optional modules can be chosen from a range that includes Contemporary American and Canadian Women's Fiction, Race, Gender, and Resistance, and Postcolonial Literatures in Contemporary Britain.Future Careers: This course provides the skills and qualifications required for careers in fields such as professional writing, publishing, teaching, and the media industry, or for further study at the PhD level. For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.