Creative Writing

MSt in Creative Writing

Course Code | 003360 

The MSt is a two-year, part-time course offering a unique combination of high contact hours, genre specialisation, and critical and creative breadth.

The emphasis of the course is cross-cultural and cross-genre, pointing up the needs and challenges of the contemporary writer who produces his or her creative work in the context of a global writerly and critical community.

The MSt offers a clustered learning format of five Residences, two Guided Retreats and one Research Placement over two years. The Research Placement, a distinguishing feature of the course, provides between one and two weeks' in-house experience of writing in the real world.

• Length of programme: Two years, part-time study
• Core and optional courses:
  The first year concentrates equally on prose fiction, poetry, dramatic writing and narrative non-fiction. There is a significant critical reading and analysis component, which is linked to the writerly considerations explored in each of the genres. In your second year you specialise in one of the following:
  • The novel
  • Short fiction
  • Radio drama
  • TV drama
  • Screenwriting
  • Stage drama
  • Poetry
  • Narrative non-fiction
    
• Programme specification

Students have full access to the Bodleian Library and related libraries such as the English Faculty, the Taylorian (Modern Languages) and the Sackler (Art and Classics).

The course benefits from its association with the Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing, which hosts masterclasses and seminar series, and is engaged in creative writing research.

Information on academic staff profiles

Doctoral programmes in creative writing; teaching creative writing; publishing creative work in chosen field; careers in arts/media.