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Degree level: postgraduate, awarded by: university of east anglia, creative writing (taught), course options.

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Overview UEA pioneered the teaching of Creative Writing more than 50 years ago and is globally regarded as a leader of the subject. UEA has mentored countless award-winning authors, including Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan, Anne Enright, and Nobel Laureate Sir Kazuo Ishiguro. But today Creative Writing is changing, and so are we. Stories are now adapted from novels to streaming platforms to games and so much more. Digital technologies and AI are reshaping writing's possibilities and practical applications. Exciting fusion genres from authors across the globe are dominating bestseller lists and streaming platforms. Career opportunities in the creative industries across the world are increasingly vibrant and ever more dynamic. This course will equip you to engage with this world and its vast audiences, now and in the future. You'll have the unique opportunity to work across forms of writing to help you discover and enhance your talent. You'll explore prose fiction and non-fiction, script and poetry, and hybrid, multimodal, and cross-genre writing. You'll also have the opportunity to develop all kinds of industry-oriented genre writing, from speculative fiction to young adult, fantasy to historical. You'll learn how AI and digital technology are transforming our ideas of writing and writers. You'll also find opportunities to experiment with writing for multiple digital realities and platforms, which are widely accessible and easily integrated. Most of all, you’ll develop skills to get noticed, published and build an audience in this digital world. At the same time, you'll benefit from UEA's established teaching excellence, creative writing workshops, and unrivalled connections with the fast-changing publishing industry in the UK and beyond. You'll become part of the university’s vibrant creative writing ecosystem, with events such as UEA Live, research and internship opportunities in the British Archive for Contemporary Writing, and a host of more informal occasions to share and celebrate your work and hear from prize-winning alumni. You’ll study in the historic city of Norwich, one of UNESCO’s Cities of Literature. You'll benefit from UEA's exceptional expertise in the world-wide breadth and history of literature, building your confidence and authority as a writer. You'll graduate a respected and versatile writer, steeped in practical and professional knowledge. You might translate that experience into a career in the creative industries, such as publishing and editing, writing for advertising, marketing, arts, culture, heritage and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector organisations, VR and XR experiences, digital gaming, streaming TV, and more. You may be embarking on a new writing career or you may be an established professional looking to upskill in a changing environment. Perhaps you want to understand more about writing and feel the thrill of seeing your work come together on page or screen. Whatever your ambitions, this course will inspire and enable you to discover your own voice and make the most of it in the next stage in your writer’s journey. Disclaimer Course details are subject to change. You should always confirm the details on the provider's website: www.uea.ac.uk

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Degree classification: 2:2 or equivalent. Degree subject: Any subject area. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must also provide 2500-3000 word portfolio of writing. This could be part of a novel, non-fiction prose, script, poetry or a combination of short pieces from multiple forms or a hybrid piece which combines forms together.

English language requirements

English Foreign Language: Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading): Test dates should be within 2 years of the course start date. We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies for a list of qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.

https://www.uea.ac.uk/apply/our-admissions-policy/english-language-equivalencies

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MA Creative Writing University of East Anglia UEA

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MA - Master of Arts

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UEA pioneered the teaching of Creative Writing more than 50 years ago and is globally regarded as a leader of the subject. UEA has mentored countless award-winning authors, including Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan, Anne Enright, and Nobel Laureate Sir Kazuo Ishiguro.

But today Creative Writing is changing, and so are we. Stories are now adapted from novels to streaming platforms to games and so much more. Digital technologies and AI are reshaping writing's possibilities and practical applications. Exciting fusion genres from authors across the globe are dominating bestseller lists and streaming platforms. Career opportunities in the creative industries across the world are increasingly vibrant and ever more dynamic.

This course will equip you to engage with this world and its vast audiences, now and in the future. You'll have the unique opportunity to work across forms of writing to help you discover and enhance your talent. You'll explore prose fiction and non-fiction, script and poetry, and hybrid, multimodal, and cross-genre writing. You'll also have the opportunity to develop all kinds of industry-oriented genre writing, from speculative fiction to young adult, fantasy to historical. You'll learn how AI and digital technology are transforming our ideas of writing and writers. You'll also find opportunities to experiment with writing for multiple digital realities and platforms, which are widely accessible and easily integrated. Most of all, you’ll develop skills to get noticed, published and build an audience in this digital world.

At the same time, you'll benefit from UEA's established teaching excellence, creative writing workshops, and unrivalled connections with the fast-changing publishing industry in the UK and beyond. You'll become part of the university’s vibrant creative writing ecosystem, with events such as UEA Live, research and internship opportunities in the British Archive for Contemporary Writing, and a host of more informal occasions to share and celebrate your work and hear from prize-winning alumni. You’ll study in the historic city of Norwich, one of UNESCO’s Cities of Literature. You'll benefit from UEA's exceptional expertise in the world-wide breadth and history of literature, building your confidence and authority as a writer.

You'll graduate a respected and versatile writer, steeped in practical and professional knowledge. You might translate that experience into a career in the creative industries, such as publishing and editing, writing for advertising, marketing, arts, culture, heritage and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector organisations, VR and XR experiences, digital gaming, streaming TV, and more. You may be embarking on a new writing career or you may be an established professional looking to upskill in a changing environment. Perhaps you want to understand more about writing and feel the thrill of seeing your work come together on page or screen. Whatever your ambitions, this course will inspire and enable you to discover your own voice and make the most of it in the next stage in your writer’s journey.

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Creative Writing Prose Fiction

This Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA course from the University of East Anglia is the oldest and most prestigious Creative Writing programme in the UK. It is uniquely focused on the writing of fiction. We take a rigorous and creative approach to enabling students' ideas, voices, technique and craft. 

The  Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA course from the University of East Anglia graduates have enjoyed unparalleled success in terms of publications and prizes. Our alumni include: Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, Bailey’s Prize-winner Naomi Alderman, Emma Healey and Tash Aw. Our continuing success means we are fortunate in being able to attract the best writers from around the world.

Prepare to experience an intensive immersion in the study of writing prose fiction. You will take core creative modules, but can also choose from a wide range of critical courses, and benefit from our proven strengths in modernism and creative-critical studies, among others.

While you are at UEA, the focus will very much be on exploring your creative potential, in a highly supportive and well-resourced environment.

Career opportunities:

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Courses include:

• Creative Writing (Prose) Dissertation 
• Creative Writing Research Methodology Conference 
• Creative Writing Workshop: Prose 
• Criticism/critique 
• Living Modernism 

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• 12 months

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• Degree Classification Bachelors (Hons) degree - 2.1 or equivalent preferred but not essential
• Promising candidates will be invited to one of our interview days, which are scheduled across the academic year. Typically a candidate will be interviewed by two members of the Creative Writing faculty and we aim to inform candidates of the outcome within five working days. 

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• Candidates will be expected to submit a portfolio of writing for assessment of between 3000 and 5000 words, which could be part of a novel in progress or a piece or pieces of short fiction.

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Hannah Osborne is Japan Foundation Lecturer in Japanese Literature at the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing and the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia. She completed her doctoral thesis, Gender, Love and Text in the Early Writings of Kanai  Mieko at the University of Leeds in 2015. Before taking up her current post, she taught courses in modern Japanese literature at SOAS, University of London, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include: intersections between text, illustration and the avant-garde arts; gender and the body; and women's writing and translation in modern Japanese literature. She is currently working on her book manuscript The Intermedial Text: Kanai Mieko and the Japanese Avant Garde . She is also Chief Editor for Literature at Japan Forum .

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Chronicles of a shifting self: masks, bodies, labyrinths and the pursuit of identity in Abe Kobo’s narrative fiction (1945-1980)

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Creative Writing

Throughout the Creative Writing course from University of East Anglia postgraduate researchers have opportunities to work at the heart of active research teams, challenging boundaries and making real advances.

The Creative Writing course from University of East Anglia   key fatcs:

Working closely with an academic supervisor gives you the support to carry out your own independent research and make your own mark. We have a wealth of remarkable academics, but how do you know which team will be right for you?

We suggest you look at the School's website, check out some academics and read up on some of their publications. We recommend that you identify at least one member of staff at UEA who might be your supervisor and that you contact them, to express your interest and discuss your research proposal. You will need to submit a research proposal of no more than 1500 words with your application.

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Programme structure.

Staff research interests in Creative Writing include:

• Creative writing
• Life writing and creative non-fiction

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Key information.

• 36 months

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• Apply before 2025-05-31 00:00:00 , International The deadline is applicable to students from outside the European Economic Area who want to study within the EEA, or to students who want to study outside the EEA but are not nationals of that country. ">
• Apply before 2025-07-31 00:00:00 , National The deadline applies if you have the same nationality as the university. ">

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The minimum academic requirement for entry to a doctoral degree is a UK upper second class undergraduate honours degree and a Master's degree, or equivalent.

• To obtain additional information about the program, we kindly suggest that you visit the programme website, where you can find further details and relevant resources.

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MA Creative Writing Prose Fiction (Part time)

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MA - Master of Arts

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Narrative Prose Writing

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The MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction at UEA is the oldest and most prestigious Creative Writing programme in the UK. Our course will help transform you as a writer, giving you a surer sense of the imaginative, artistic and intellectual challenges involved in writing fiction.

You’ll study the craft of prose fiction with an international cohort of other excellent writers, and you’ll be taught by an outstanding and committed faculty alongside internationally recognised visiting writers. Recent examples include Tsitsi Dangarembga, Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Eleanor Catton and Preti Taneja.

Our Masters in Creative Writing will challenge you to explore your notions about writing and being a writer, provoking you into play, experimentation and risk, to make you the best writer you can be. You’ll take core creative modules but can also choose from a wide range of critical modules.

You’ll be based in Norwich, a beautiful historic city and England’s first UNESCO City of Literature. You’ll also be part of Norwich’s vibrant literary culture, from regular readings and events to the well-established programme at the National Centre for Writing. You'll benefit from UEA’s connections in the publishing industry and may pitch ideas for books to visiting publishers and literary agents. At the end of each year, we publish an anthology of our students’ writing and distribute it to a key list of editors, agents and critics. In 2011, UEA’s Creative Writing programme was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in recognition of our continuing excellence in delivering innovative courses at a world-class level.

After this intensive year, you’ll leave the course confident of technique and craft, as well as your own voice. It’s no wonder that our students’ success is unparalleled, with many of our graduates going on to publish their own work and others moving into publishing, journalism or teaching. Our alumni include Nobel Laureate Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, and many other internationally renowned novelists including Ayobami Adebayo, Naomi Alderman, Tash Aw, Stephen Buoro, and Tracy Chevalier, to name but a few. The continuing success of our graduates means we’re fortunate in being able to attract the best writers from around the world. Are you ready to join them?

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Bachelors degree - 2.1, Any subject. Candidates are required to submit a portfolio of writing for assessment of between 3000 and 5000 words with their application. This could be part of a novel in progress or a piece or pieces of short fiction.

The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a world-renowned university known for its high standard of academic performance across both taught and research postgraduate courses. Based in Norwich, in the county of Norfolk, the university has an excellent international reputation for the high quality of its research output. UEA is home to over 17,000 students, of which around 25 percent are postgraduate students. As a prominent member of the... more

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Applying for a PhD

How you can join our thriving research community

We welcome research enquiries from prospective students.

To begin with, please consult the staff profiles below to identify members of our staff whose research interests and specialisms match your own and who might be interested in being a potential supervisor. Once you have identified a colleague or colleagues, then you should send them an email with the following:

A 1,500-word research proposal

An academic CV listing relevant educational and professional experience

A 3,000 – 5,000-word sample of recent critical writing – this is required of all applicants, as each of our PhDs is based on independent research and requires candidates to operate at an advanced critical level

If relevant, a recent substantial sample of your creative writing, life writing, or literary translation.

If you cannot locate a suitable member of staff, then please contact the School’s Director of Postgraduate Research, Dr Will Rossiter ,  who will be able to direct you to relevant colleagues. You should also contact Dr Rossiter with any general or preliminary enquiries you might have about our PhD programmes in Literature, Creative-Critical Writing, or Life Writing.

If your enquiry is about the PhD in Literary Translation, please send it to  Prof Duncan Large ,  the Academic Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation.

Our  Graduate School  has information on deadlines, application procedures, funding and studentships.

For admissions enquiries and general information, please email the  Postgraduate Research Service Office  or call them on  01603 591709