MFA Creative and Life Writing 12 months Postgraduate Programme By Goldsmiths, University of London |TopUniversities
Programme Duration

12 monthsProgramme duration

Starting Month

SepStarting Month

Programme overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

This programme is designed to meet the needs of committed writers who are interested in exploring and exploiting their own possibilities as writers, and in critically examining their own writing. It is unique in combining creative and life writing in a stimulating and enriching programme. It offers ways to develop your own writing skills within a challenging, flexible and advanced scheme of study invigorated by current research. The programme aims to extend students’ specialist knowledge and critical/contextual understanding of the study and practice of Creative and Life Writing. You will examine relevant literary and cultural theory as well as the politics and practicalities of language and writing from the point of view of the writer. Practitioner-led, the programme offers you the opportunity to work with a range of published writers who visit the College to give readings and lead workshops. You will also draw upon London’s rich tradition as a converging point for culturally diverse literary practices. Visiting writers in the past have included Daljit Nagra, Jackie Kay and Ali Smith; poetry masterclasses have been led by Sharon Olds, Les Murray, Patience Agbabi and Paul Muldoon.  

Programme overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

This programme is designed to meet the needs of committed writers who are interested in exploring and exploiting their own possibilities as writers, and in critically examining their own writing. It is unique in combining creative and life writing in a stimulating and enriching programme. It offers ways to develop your own writing skills within a challenging, flexible and advanced scheme of study invigorated by current research. The programme aims to extend students’ specialist knowledge and critical/contextual understanding of the study and practice of Creative and Life Writing. You will examine relevant literary and cultural theory as well as the politics and practicalities of language and writing from the point of view of the writer. Practitioner-led, the programme offers you the opportunity to work with a range of published writers who visit the College to give readings and lead workshops. You will also draw upon London’s rich tradition as a converging point for culturally diverse literary practices. Visiting writers in the past have included Daljit Nagra, Jackie Kay and Ali Smith; poetry masterclasses have been led by Sharon Olds, Les Murray, Patience Agbabi and Paul Muldoon.  

Admission Requirements

185+
3.3+
7+
76+
24+

1 Year
Sep

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