MA Creative Writing (Part-Time)

Programme overview

Entry requirements

• A bachelor's degree with a 2:1 (hons) in English literature or Creative Writing, or a degree scheme that includes a significant proportion of English Literature or Creative Writing content, or a related subject. Applicants will also submit a Creative Writing sample comprising approximately 1,000 words of prose or 3 pages of poetry (or a portfolio combining both genres). Applications from those with degrees in other subjects may be considered on an individual basis.
• IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in all components.

Programme specification

The MA in Creative Writing (part time) offers students the opportunity to develop postgraduate skills in creative writing within the context of a School of English with a long and distinguished history in creative writing. The programme covers a range of literary forms, including poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction genres. The course develops students’ skills as creative practitioners and explores the history, generic conventions and experimental possibilities of creative literary forms.

The course is structured through a combination of core modules and option modules and culminates in the independent creative writing research project. Total credits required for the programme are 180 credits (90 credits per year).

In year 1, students take the core module Approaches to Creative Writing, which introduces students to the study of creative writing at MA level. They must also take a compulsory workshop module: either Writing Prose Fiction or Writing Poetry, which immerse students in the creative practice of these genres and current debates in these fields. They select a third module from two creative-critical options, The Long Poem, and Selves, Families, Stories, which develop students’ knowledge and practice in specialist forms of the long poem and memoir. Alternatively, they may choose either Writing Prose Fiction or Writing Poetry, or a module from a range of offerings in English Literature, or a module in digital media and performance in the School of Performance and Creative Industries.

In Year 2, students complete the 60-credit Research Project and choose one further 30 credit option from those listed above. The research project, which is the capstone of the programme, includes some plenary lectures in semester 1, once students have been prepared to begin independent research by the first year core module Approaches to Creative Writing. The research project module, which is the other core module for the programme, continues in semester 2 in the form of individual supervisions under specialist creative writing staff. During the summer of Year 2, students complete this independent project, with the goal of producing a single extended piece of creative writing, or a portfolio of creative writing, which may be developed further for publication. This goal is a key distinctive learning outcome of the programme.

The ‘creative writing workshop’ is at the heart of the pedagogy of the programme and is a distinctive learning and teaching method. The creative workshop embeds principles of the Leeds Curriculum by making students active partners in shaping their own, and their peers’, creative practice.

Year 1

(Part-Time)

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Compulsory Modules

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL5900M	Approaches to Creative Writing	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional Modules

Basket 1: Candidates will be required to study at least 30 credits from the following optional modules (both may be taken):

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL5910M	Writing Poetry	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5920M	Writing Prose Fiction	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Basket 2: If only one module from Basket 1 is chosen, candidates must select a further 30 credits from the following optional modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL5013M	Magic in Fiction Writing (Creative Writing)	30
ENGL5103M	Global Literature and Terror	30
ENGL5161M	Language After Empire	30
ENGL5225M	Children's Literature: Language, Discourse and Education	30
ENGL5343M	Africas of the Mind	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5346M	So Where do you come from? Selves, Families, Stories	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5540M	Thinking With the Contemporary Novel	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5551M	Yorkshire Literary Landscapes: Writing Places and Identities	30
ENGL5635M	Imagining Multicultural Britain in the 21st Century	30
ENGL5665M	The Digital & English Studies	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5666M	Ways of Reading: Novels in the Age of Information Excess	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5700M	Writing, Archives, Race	30	Not running in 202324
ENGL5756M	Fictions of Citizenship in Contemporary American Literature	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5817M	Shakespeare's Tyrants	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5837M	Victorian New Media	30	Not running in 202324
ENGL5847M	War, Mourning, Memory: 1914-1939	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5849M	Culture and Anarchy: 1945-1965	30	Not running in 202324
ENGL5851M	The Brontës	30
ENGL5852M	Language, Society and Fiction	30
ENGL5854M	Reader, Writer, Text: an introduction to Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies	30
ENGL5940M	Planetary Aesthetics: Animism, Mimesis and Indigeneity	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5950M	George Orwell: The Politics of Literature	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

With approval of the teaching school via an application form, 30 credits (out of the total 180) in either Year 1 or in Year 2, may be taken from
those available in another department, such as those listed below (subject to availability):

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
PECI5407M	Digital and Intermedial Storytelling	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PECI5409M	Script Development for Film and Television	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PECI5411M	Arts Based Practices in Health and Wellbeing	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Students may choose an option module from the following list of Medieval Studies modules if they wish (subject to availability):

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
MEDV5100M	Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MEDV5235M	Medieval English	30	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MEDV5245M	Old Norse	30	Not running in 202324
MEDV5340M	Medieval Bodies	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Year 2

(Part-Time)

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Compulsory Modules

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL5930M	Creative Writing Research Project	60	1 Dec to 30 Sep	PFP

Optional Modules

Basket 1: Candidates must select a further 30 credits from the following optional modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL5100M	The Long Poem: Self, Land, Witness	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5105M	Caribbean and Black British Writing	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5117M	Romantic Identities: Literary Constructions of the Self, 1789-1821	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5343M	Africas of the Mind	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5345M	Reading (with) Psychoanalysis	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5346M	So Where do you come from? Selves, Families, Stories	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5700M	Writing, Archives, Race	30	Not running in 202324
ENGL5737M	Postcolonialism, Animals and the Environment	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5752M	The Brontes	30	Not running in 202324
ENGL5756M	Fictions of Citizenship in Contemporary American Literature	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5817M	Shakespeare's Tyrants	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5828M	Global Indigeneity	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5834M	Romantic Ecologies	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5837M	Victorian New Media	30	Not running in 202324
ENGL5850M	Culture and Anarchy: 1945-1968	30	Not running in 202324
ENGL5860M	Turks, Moors, and Jews: Race and Identity in English Renaissance Drama	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5910M	Writing Poetry	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5920M	Writing Prose Fiction	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Candidates may take up to 30 credits in approved modules outside the School of English. Subject to approval from the Programme Leader, if a module from Basket 1 is NOT taken, a maximum of 30 credits may be taken from approved modules outside of the school as those modules listed below:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
PECI5406M	Narrative Perspectives in Practice	30	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PECI5407M	Digital and Intermedial Storytelling	30	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

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