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| Application Deadline: | as early as possible | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,256 - ≈ € 13,116 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Canterbury / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 60 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Kent, Canterbury Campus
The MA in Creative Writing at Kent offers you the opportunity to study fiction and poetry (exclusively or together) along with new optional modules in translation and writing and the environment. Designed with serious, ambitious writers in mind, our programme uses seminars, tutorials, workshops, and precise editing to enable you to take control of your own work and write exciting, contemporary material. You will be taught exclusively by members of our permanent creative writing team, all of whom are practising, award-winning writers: Scarlett Thomas, Lucy Ellmann, Todd McEwen, David Herd, Patricia Debney and Simon Smith. We will push you hard to make sure you take risks and produce work that is very accomplished. Although we would hope that graduates of the programme will go on and get published, our priority when you are here will be on your actual writing. We believe that the way to get published is to produce the best work you can. Our experience tells us that it is this alone – a great piece of work – that excites publishers, far more than lots of industry know-how and good contacts. Having said that, between us we have links to many literary agents and most publishers of poetry and literary fiction in the country. We have a weekly reading series where well-known writers and people from the industry come and talk to students.
Contents
Students take a total of four modules, for which they produce approximately 8,000 words each (or an equivalent number of poems or translations), and in addition write a creative dissertation of about 15,000 words.
You are encouraged to put together an MA programme that suits you and your plans. It is a requirement of the programme that you take EITHER Fiction 1 and Fiction 2 OR Poetry 1 and Poetry 2. After that the choice is yours. For a good basis in various forms of creative writing you might want to select Fiction 1, Poetry 1, Fiction 2 and Poetry 2. However, a writer planning to be a novelist may choose Fiction 1 and 2, Creative Writing Project and Writing and the Environment. A poet may well choose Poetry 1, Poetry 2, Creative Writing Project and Translation. Alternatively, your fourth module could be something academic from English or Humanities that will add depth to your project (for example a module on postcolonial writing for someone embarking on a postcolonial project; a module on theology for someone incorporating religious themes). For both fiction-writers and poets, exploring another discipline can provide a rich new source of language and imagery. If you plan to do the Creative Writing Project, check the profile of the staff member running it each term. If you are a novelist it probably won't make sense to take the project with a poet. Each year we will have at least one poet and at least one prose-fiction specialist running the module but make sure you check which one is in which term.
Dissertation
At Kent your dissertation is creative. You are allocated a dissertation supervisor early in the first term, and this person will serve as your main point of contact during your course. You will be encouraged to meet with your supervisor in the Spring term, after your first piece of coursework has been marked, to discuss the progress of your studies. Two further focussed supervisions in the summer term ensure you are getting the most out of your work as you begin to write on your own. The dissertation is delivered in September.
Creative Writing Modules:
A combination of either Fiction 1 and 2 or Poetry 1 and 2 are a requirement for the programme.
* EN892: Poetry 1
* EN894: Poetry 2
* EN891: Fiction 1
* EN893: Fiction 2
* EN812: Creative Writing Project
* EN838: Re-visioning: Twenty-first Century Translation
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
A first or upper second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent)
English Language Proficiency for non-native speakers of English:
* 7.0 in IELTS (including minimum 6 in all four modules)
* 100 in iBTOEFL (including minimum 22 in both writing and reading)
* TOEFL paper-based test is not acceptable
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 7.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 100 |
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