Study Details: MA/PGDip/PGCert FT: MA 12 months, PGDip 8 months, PGCert 4 months; PT: MA 24 months, PGDip 3 semesters, PGCert 2 semesters
The Creative Writing MA at Oxford Brookes will grow your writing through work with established writers, industry professionals, teaching specialists and your peers, whilst you experience this most literary of all cities. From the opening evening of your course in September – previous speakers have included international bestseller Philip Pullman, Booker winner Howard Jacobson and Pulitzer/Orange winner Marilynne Robinson – through to the showcase for agents and publishers following your graduation, our aim is to make your time at Brookes a decisive stage in your development. The course has full-time and part-time routes.
Your postgraduate study here will centre on your own creative writing, combined with critical analysis, reflective commentary and scholarly research.
Applicants should normally hold a good honours degree (2.1 or above), or its equivalent, in an appropriate discipline and must be able to demonstrate ability in creative writing.
A portfolio of recent creative work must be submitted (max 25 pages, please be selective in your choice of pieces to include in the portfolio) and applicants may be interviewed.
If it is some time since you completed your undergraduate education and you do not meet the standard requirement, it may be possible to consider your application based on evidence of other relevant personal and professional experience, the support of your referees and the portfolio of written work.
Applicants whose first language is not English should hold one of the following qualifications:
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