Creative and Critical Writing MA 12 months Postgraduate Programme By University of Sussex |TopUniversities
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Programme Duration

12 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

22,575 GBPTuition Fee/year

Application Deadline

01 Aug, 2025Application Deadline

Programme overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Find out how creative and critical writing belong together, and how the development of your own compositional practice (poetry, fiction or creative non-fiction) can be enriched by a wider knowledge of and engagement with critical and philosophical thinking.


Our MA is driven by the sense that creative writing is profoundly enhanced and transformed by a knowledge and appreciation of critical and philosophical texts. This course, the first of its kind in the UK, has been flourishing for some 20 years. It is integrally linked to longstanding intellectual traditions of 'Sussex English’ in:


  • creative writing
  • psychoanalysis
  • Marxism
  • ecocriticism and environmental writing
  • postcolonialism and neocolonialism
  • deconstruction
  • feminism
  • queer theory
  • word-image theory and practice.

Programme overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Find out how creative and critical writing belong together, and how the development of your own compositional practice (poetry, fiction or creative non-fiction) can be enriched by a wider knowledge of and engagement with critical and philosophical thinking.


Our MA is driven by the sense that creative writing is profoundly enhanced and transformed by a knowledge and appreciation of critical and philosophical texts. This course, the first of its kind in the UK, has been flourishing for some 20 years. It is integrally linked to longstanding intellectual traditions of 'Sussex English’ in:


  • creative writing
  • psychoanalysis
  • Marxism
  • ecocriticism and environmental writing
  • postcolonialism and neocolonialism
  • deconstruction
  • feminism
  • queer theory
  • word-image theory and practice.

Admission Requirements

62+
6.5+
176+
3+
88+
120+

Degree requirements: You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.  


Subject-specific requirements: Your qualification should typically be in a subject relevant to your chosen Masters course. In exceptional circumstances, if you don’t have the academic qualifications for the course, you may be considered if you can provide evidence of equivalent or professional artistic experience.

01 Aug 2025
1 Year
Sep

  • Candidates are required to submit an essay(s) for acceptance

Tuition fees

Domestic
11,025 GBP
International
22,575 GBP

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