Creative Writing (Novels) MA

MA Creative Writing (Novels)

 

This is a course for writers with some experience who are ready to expand their skills and complete a novel to a high standard. We offer:

 

  • Location | Over 12,000 novels were published in the UK in 2007, making London the world capital of publishing. London is inspiration to novelists from Charles Dickens to Zadie Smith, from Philip Roth to Salman Rushdie. Students have access to a wide range of contemporary novelists and to significant agents and major publishers.
     
  • Guest speakers and tutors | We regularly invite leading novelists to tutor individual students or visit the university for an informal Q&A session. In the last few years, this has included Doris Lessing, Monica Ali, Will Self, Mohsin Hamid, Hilary Mantel, Nick Hornby, Lionel Shriver, Jonathan Coe and Jake Arnott.
     
  • Completion of a novel | Through a combination of workshops, one-to-one tutorials, group discussions and Q&As, you will be encouraged and supported until your novel is written.
     
  • Diversity | No particular style or form is prescribed. In recent years, for instance, students have completed literary novels, historical novels, SF and comic novels.  We simply aim to teach the qualities required in any good fiction. 

 

"The supportive environment and stimulating and knowledgeable teachers have produced confident writers with distinctive voices."
Rosie Apponyi, Capel & Land literary agency