MLitt Creative Writing

If you’re interested in studying a module from this course, the Postgraduate Certificate or the Postgraduate Diploma then please email Graduate Admissions to discuss your course of study.

You’ll take part in intensive writers’ workshops, technique-focused modules and have one-to-one tuition by the distinguished writers on staff. There’s also intriguing visits from authors, book agents, publishers, poets and others involved in the literary world.

Workshops, seminars and guest lectures are held on campus. Throughout the course, we encourage our students to embrace the wider literary life by attending – even organising – events, readings, festivals and libraries.

Assessment for each module you take will vary, but may include a critical essay, a journal or a creative project.

Assessment for the workshops will depend on the literary form you’ve chosen (prose or poetry), but will be based on reading journals and/or working notebooks, book reviews and completed pieces of creative work.

The most significant piece of work in the course is the creative dissertation, due at the end of the summer. This should be approximately 15,000 words of prose, or a collection of around 15 poems. A dissertation may be a portfolio of shorter texts – stories, personal essays, poems – or part of a novel. It’s expected to be revised and polished original work, written and presented to professional standards.

If you don’t embark on the dissertation you may be awarded a Diploma. The work of the best students completing the course may be deemed worthy of an MLitt with Distinction.

Dr Liam Murray Bell, Course Director

liam.bell@stir.ac.uk
+44 (0)1786 467517

This course is taught by Liam Murray Bell, Kevin MacNeil and Chris Powici.

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