The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme from September 2024 or after. For students entering the programme in 2023/2024 or before you can find the details of your programme here:
MA Creative Writing(Part-Time)
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 other creative writing or creative critical options. Alternatively, they may choose a module from a range of School of English offerings, 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. 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.
(Part-Time) (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)
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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) |
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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| 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 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5103M | Global Literature and Terror | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5161M | Language After Empire | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5225M | Children's Literature: Language, Discourse and Education | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5343M | Africas of the Mind | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5346M | So Where do you come from? Selves, Families, Stories | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5540M | Thinking With the Contemporary Novel | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5551M | Yorkshire Literary Landscapes: Writing Places and Identities | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5635M | Imagining Multicultural Britain in the 21st Century | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| 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 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5756M | Fictions of Citizenship in Contemporary American Literature | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5817M | Shakespeare's Tyrants | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5837M | Victorian New Media | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5847M | War, Mourning, Memory: 1914-1939 | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5849M | Culture and Anarchy: 1945-1965 | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5851M | The Brontës | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5852M | Language, Society and Fiction | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5854M | Reader, Writer, Text: an introduction to Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| 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 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MEDV5340M | Medieval Bodies | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
(Part-Time) (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)
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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for year 2 are not yet available. Before you enter year 2 full details of modules for that year will be provided.
Basket 2: Candidates must select a further 30 credits from the following optional modules. Candidates may not take a module they studied in year 1.
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL5100M | The Long Poem: Self, Land, Witness | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL5105M | Caribbean and Black British Writing | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL5117M | Romantic Identities: Literary Constructions of the Self, 1789-1821 | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL5343M | Africas of the Mind | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5345M | Reading (with) Psychoanalysis | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL5346M | So Where do you come from? Selves, Families, Stories | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5700M | Writing, Archives, Race | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5737M | Postcolonialism, Animals and the Environment | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL5752M | The Brontes | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL5756M | Fictions of Citizenship in Contemporary American Literature | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5817M | Shakespeare's Tyrants | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5828M | Global Indigeneity | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL5834M | Romantic Ecologies | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL5837M | Victorian New Media | 30 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5850M | Culture and Anarchy: 1945-1968 | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL5860M | Turks, Moors, and Jews: Race and Identity in English Renaissance Drama | 30 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL5910M | Writing Poetry | 30 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| 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 the section immediately above is NOT taken, a maximum of 30 credits may be taken from approved modules outside of the school such as those 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) |
Last updated: 28/08/2024 16:30:14
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