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The MA in Creative Writing is an exciting new course at Durham University. Taught by award-winning writers Dr Paul Batchelor, Dr Naomi Booth, Kayo Chingonyi, Professor Claire Harman, Sunjeev Sahota, and Dr Sam Riviere. This is an academically rigorous programme that will develop students’ practical knowledge of writing poetry and prose fiction. Students will receive structured support through writing workshops and one-to-one tutorials in order to develop their own ideas. Students will also study a broad range of literature from the 20th and 21st centuries, and produce new work in response.

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The MA in Creative Writing is an exciting new course at Durham University. Taught by award-winning writers Dr Paul Batchelor, Dr Naomi Booth, Kayo Chingonyi, Professor Claire Harman, Sunjeev Sahota, and Dr Sam Riviere. This is an academically rigorous programme that will develop students’ practical knowledge of writing poetry and prose fiction. Students will receive structured support through writing workshops and one-to-one tutorials in order to develop their own ideas. Students will also study a broad range of literature from the 20th and 21st centuries, and produce new work in response.

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Students are usually required to have an Honours Degree at 2:1 level or higher or GPA average of 3.2 from a recognised national or international university. Students should submit a sample of 4-6 poems or 2,000 words of fiction. All students must provide two positive academic or professional references.

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Our MA in Creative Writing is an exciting and rewarding course, taught with academic rigour by award-winning writers. It will help sharpen your practical knowledge of writing poetry and prose fiction and develop your knowledge and understanding of twentieth and twenty-first century literature.

The teaching and research provided offers a combination of conceptual and theoretical reflection, analysis of historical and cultural contexts, pays close attention to literary texts and primary sources, and enables the imaginative creation of new writing.

You will be supported with writing workshops and one-to-one tutorials where you will be encouraged to express and develop your own ideas. You will be based in an environment where your curiosity and imagination as well as your intellectual discipline and the individual nature of your responses is respected and valued.

Alongside the teaching modules you will have access to an extensive events programme, which includes the sharing of work and expertise by leading researchers and writers.

We are one of the most well-regarded English departments in the country. We are, in addition, one of few English departments in the world to teach and research in literature produced in Britain from the early medieval period to the present day as well as in anglophone literature from across the globe.

Consequently, with the learning opportunities provided by the department’s world-leading scholars, our course will give you the freedom to study broadly or to specialise, but always within a support structure where you will always be able to develop your own creative writing ideas.

Reading as a Writer introduces twentieth century poetry or prose, the writer’s technique and the way in which writers learn from each other. You will gain a high level of understanding of a range of individual authors, schools of writing and writing genres with the aim of extending your own powers of analysis through a writer’s eyes with the emphasis on poetic form, narrative architecture, voice and style. You will also be guided in choosing and developing ideas for your research project.

Reading as a Writer: The Workshop is a companion core module to the Reading as a Writer module and introduces you to the workshop format with short, directed writing assignments and their subsequent discussion. The focus of the module is on formal and technical experiments that develop your ability to draft and edit original work, with assignments reflecting the texts studied in the Reading as a Writer module. Prose and poetry students work together and share their work and ideas with subjects for assignments including adapting syntactical techniques, investigative creative non-fiction, experimenting with poetic forms, creative translation, writing an opening paragraph or trying out editing methods.

The Research Project is an extended critical essay on a subject of your own choosing and a portfolio of creative work, consisting of new works written after you have completed the workshop-style modules. You will be steered in your choice of essay topic by the module convenor. Exploring a particular subject in depth, it will encourage the development of sophisticated argument, the marshalling of evidence, the reading of the relevant criticism and contextual material, and the appropriate high level of bibliographical and presentational skills.

The remainder of the course comprises one option module from:

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  • Creative Writing Prose Fiction
  • Creative Nonfiction

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  • A module from another MA programme offered by the English Studies Board of Studies
  • A module offered by another Board of Studies (subject to approval)

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If you are an international student who does not meet the requirements for direct entry to this degree, you may be eligible to take a pre-Masters pathway programme at the Durham University International Study Centre .

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The Creative Writing MA at Durham is such a great opportunity to improve your writing in the company of award-winning authors and talented students. The course includes creative and critical work, so get ready to write a few essays, including the Research Project which is half-creative, half-critical work. You can choose one module from the English department more widely, which is a good chance to explore areas of research you might not have considered before and really helps with developing your own creative work.

From BA to MA

I chose to study a Creative Writing MA at Durham because I took the one creative writing module offered in the English BA (also at Durham) and loved it. I knew that if I didn’t do the Master’s, I wouldn’t be motivated enough to write in my own time outside of university, so I chose to do it to force myself to create an actual body of work. I knew the tutors from my degree, and knew how helpful they are at pointing you in the right direction – and they should know! I never really allowed myself to believe that I could write in the future and resigned myself to a soulless job, but taking the course has changed my attitude. It’s now my absolute dream to be a writer for a living, and this course has definitely shaped that mindset.

Great modules

The actual modules on the course are great – the compulsory ‘Writing Prose’ (or poetry, if you so choose) forces me to write and receive feedback from my classmates and tutors, which is so helpful in developing my work. ‘Reading as a Writer’ challenges me to try out different techniques based on the lecture content – for example, I’ve had to write like Henry James, explore non-literary texts, and write music and images, something that I would never have done by my own accord. The fact that I have enjoyed this module has probably been the biggest surprise – the techniques I use have found themselves in my general creative practice and have sparked some of my favourite ideas. I definitely prefer the creative side of the degree to the critical – but, then again, who wouldn’t – although being forced to think critically about authors I haven’t written about before has strongly influenced my work. I have written an essay about the Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington, whose work I became briefly obsessed with last term. Her incredible works have definitely influenced my own, and I find myself leaning towards the Surreal more and more!

Workshops are so helpful

Reading other people’s work was strange at first, because it felt almost intrusive, but now workshopping feels natural and it’s genuinely a privilege to read my classmates’ work. It can sometimes be daunting to read established authors’ work who are all at the top of their game, as I did constantly during my English degree – so it’s good to read the unfinished, developing work of the people around me. I can learn from them more easily than from reading Joyce, for example, because we’re all at a similar level.

The publishing process

This term we are developing a course anthology of our work, which will be published with the help of publishing students from UEA. I am one of the prose editors on the project, which will give me insight into the publishing process. Everybody is pulling together, with illustrators and proof-readers and event-launchers, so it feels like a real team effort. I am especially excited about it all as the anthology gets sent to a long list of publishers and agents!

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This is from a short story called ‘Attack of the Flenkels’, which follows a man who is taken to another world from his back garden. It, like a few of my stories, is quite silly, but aims to capture lost youth and the desire to feel alive again. I love writing about my native Derbyshire, and setting the fantastical within the real.

Durham has lots to offer

When I was thinking about where I’d like to do my Master’s, I did consider other courses like UEA or some of the London universities. But I landed on Durham for lots of reasons: the sheer range of societies to take part in outside of the degree, the beauty of the city and the surrounding countryside (well worth exploring), the excellent (cheap) range of college bars, and of course its proximity to the greatest team the world has ever seen (Sunderland A.F.C). When I do (eventually) leave Durham, I’ll always be pining for it and I expect I’ll be returning to the North East before long.

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The MA in Creative Writing is an exciting new course at Durham University. Taught by award-winning writers Dr Paul Batchelor, Dr Naomi Booth, Kayo Chingonyi, Professor Claire Harman, Sunjeev Sahota, and Dr Sam Riviere. This is an academically rigorous programme that will develop students’ practical knowledge of writing poetry and prose fiction. Students will receive structured support through writing workshops and one-to-one tutorials in order to develop their own ideas. Students will also study a broad range of literature from the 20th and 21st centuries, and produce new work in response.

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The MA in Creative Writing is an exciting course at Durham University. Taught by award-winning writers Dr Paul Batchelor, Dr Naomi Booth, Kayo Chingonyi, Professor Claire Harman, Sunjeev Sahota, and Dr Sam Riviere. This is an academically rigorous degree that will develop your practical knowledge of writing poetry and prose fiction. You will receive structured support through writing workshops and one-to-one tutorials in order to develop their own ideas. You will also study a broad range of literature from the 20th and 21st centuries, and produce new work in response.

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It is expected that most Creative Writing PhDs at Durham will have a 50:50 weighting between a creative portfolio and a literary-critical dissertation; however, this ratio is negotiable as particular  projects may require a different weighting, or the emphasis may change after the completion of initial research.  

During your three years of supervision you will produce a complete and coherent creative writing project in your chosen form, plus a literary-critical dissertation of a high academic standard. The nature and form of the creative project will vary from student to student, and the literary-critical dissertation may focus on any writer(s), and/or aspect(s) of creative literature and/or theoretical writing. It is expected that the literary-critical dissertation will be informed by your personal creative practice and  process, but  will not focus on it primarily. The creative and critical elements of your thesis should be viewed as complementary, in dialogue with one another, and forming a coherent whole that you will be asked to defend at the viva (oral examination) after submission.  

The research interests of the  Creative Writing team   within the department of English Studies lie in a broad range of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first-century writing from English-language traditions and from literature in English-language translation. We welcome CW PhDs in poetry, the short story, innovative fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir and life-writing, and hybrid forms of writing (the lyric essay, autofiction, conceptual poetry). Recent publications by members of the Creative Writing department include works exploring identity and self-expression; affect in writing, including manifestations of shame in contemporary poetry; feminist writing and theory; activist texts; musicality and orality in poetry; form in performance and form on the page; race and lyric subjectivity; hip hop studies; elegy; epistolary writing; uncreative writing, repurposing and appropriation.  

Creative Writing at Durham is housed in the English Department, which usually has about 75 PhD students at any one time. In the  2014 Research Excellence Framework , 90% of the department’s research activity was judged to be ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent.’ As a teaching department, we are the highest rated department overall in the  Complete University Guide 2018 . The research expertise of the English Department includes the Reception of Classical Texts; Medieval Literature and culture; Renaissance Literature; Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century English literature; Romantic poetry, fiction, political writing and aesthetic theory; Victorian fin-de- siècle and Edwardian writing; Postmodernism, literary hermeneutics and ideas of authorship.  

  • You will be assigned principal and secondary supervisors with whom you will work out your research programme. We will be pleased to discuss your interests with you before you apply.  
  • You will be expected to meet with one of your supervisors every two weeks in term-time and every month out-of-term.  
  • Within eight months of your start date (or within sixteen months for part-time students) you will produce a piece of critical writing of 3,000 words, plus a portfolio of creative writing (3,000 words of prose, or six pages of poetry) which will be read by members of staff other than your supervisor(s) as a check on progress.  
  • Each July you will submit a joint annual progress report with your supervisor(s).  
  • You will submit either a PhD thesis (consisting of a portfolio of creative work of up to either 50,000 words of prose or 2,000 lines of poetry, plus a critical dissertation of up to 50,000 words) or an MLitt thesis (consisting of a portfolio of creative work of up to either 35,000 words of prose or 1,400 lines of poetry, plus a critical dissertation of up to 35,000 words).  
  • You will be examined by an internal and external examiner after you have submitted your thesis.

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  • You will normally require a good honours degree (at least a 2:1) or its equivalent, and a  Masters  degree from a recognised University.  
  • A piece of recent written creative work approximately 4,000 words in length (for prose writers) or a sample of eight pages of poetry. The quality of each student’s Creative Writing (whether published or unpublished) will be evaluated on an individual basis, and may be considered in lieu of a  Masters  degree in some cases.  
  • Two positive academic or equivalent professional references.  
  • We welcome applications from overseas students, who should be proficient in spoken and written English: normally a minimum of 7.0 in IELTS (with no component less than 7.0) or equivalent in  other language tests accepted by Durham .  
  • Application forms must be completed  online .

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The MA in Creative Writing is an exciting new course at Durham University. Taught by award-winning writers Dr Paul Batchelor, Dr Naomi Booth, Kayo Chingonyi, Professor Claire Harman, Sunjeev Sahota, and Dr Sam Riviere. This is an academically rigorous programme that will develop students’ practical knowledge of writing poetry and prose fiction. Students will receive structured support through writing workshops and one-to-one tutorials in order to develop their own ideas. Students will also study a broad range of literature from the 20th and 21st centuries, and produce new work in response.

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Students are usually required to have an Honours Degree at 2:1 level or higher or GPA average of 3.2 from a recognised national or international university. Students should submit a sample of 4-6 poems or 2,000 words of fiction. All students must provide two positive academic or professional references.

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MA in Creative Writing

Our Creative Writing MA is an academically rigorous programme that gives students structured support through writing workshops and one-to-one tutorials in order to develop practical knowledge of writing poetry and prose fiction.

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Professor paul batchelor.

Dr Paul Batchelor

Dr Naomi Booth

Dr Naomi Booth

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Kayo Chingonyi

Professor Claire Harman

Professor Claire Harman

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The Department is involved in various other University and external groups that can further support your writing. These include:

  • New Writing North . Writing development agency for the North-east, which runs workshops, lectures, competitions and magazines. The Department works with New Writing North to develop Durham Book Festival.
  • The Centre for Poetry and Poetics . Based in the Department, this runs a number of events each term, including open-mic nights and talks by established poets.
  • Durham University Creative Writing Society . A group for students to develop their work in a friendly setting.
  • The Bubble . Student-run online magazine that publishes creative writing and reviews.
  • Durham Book Festival . Annual festival bringing well-known authors to Durham, including the Festival Poet Laureate appointed by the Department; the Festival includes workshops and networking events for aspiring authors.

Several of our students have gone on to achieve success and recognition with their published creative work. Recent notable successes include:

  • John Clegg won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2013 for his first book of poetry, Antler . His second book, Holy Toledo! appeared in 2016. John can be heard reading from and discussing his work in this READ podcast .
  • Sarah Fletcher has been a Foyle Young Poet of the Year and a two-time recipient of the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize. She has published two pamphlets: Kissing Angles , was published by (Dead Ink Books, 2015) and Typhoid August
  • Eiffel Gao’s poems have appeared in The Poetry Review and Shearsman magazine, and she is an editor for Transect .
  • Chris Kerr’s poetry has appeared in a number of publications, and he recently published his debut pamphlet, Citidyll .
  • Lauren Owen published her debut novel, The Quick , to great acclaim. It was praised by Hilary Mantel as ‘a sly and glittering addition to the literature of the macabre.’

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Durham University Creative Writing Society (DUCWS) encourages creative writing of all forms, from prose to poetry to scriptwriting. We meet weekly, and out sessions operate on a rota, including writing from prompts, giving feedback to each other on pieces of work and playing writing games. We also sometimes get in outside speakers to talk to us about their experiences in the world of writing. We publish yearly anthologies of members' writings, as well as taking part in worldwide writing events like National Novel Writing Month and Script Frenzy. DUCWS is an informal friendly community of writers where everyone is welcome, regardless of style, gender, experience, etc. We support each other in our writing, and aim to create an atmosphere fitting for both inspiration and enjoyment.

Hold an author talk at least once per year to provide opportunities for writers to learn in professionals in the field.

Encourage members to write creatively Ensure everyone is welcome Create a supportive and friendly group of writers who are able to learn from each other and receive constructive feedback Promote wider interest in creative writing in Durham's student community through publishing anthologies to encourage members to try hard and to produce high quality work with the incentive of publishing. To make sure all society members and exec enjoy their time in the society.

As a ratified society of Durham Students Union, ensure that DUCWS doesn't breach the DSU equal opportunity policy or data protection use (we will inform any outside speakers that they too are bound by this).

You can email us here:  [email protected] Follow us on Instagram for updates: @ducreativewriting Our Facebook group: facebook.com/DUCWS

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