MA Literature and Creative Writing

With the expertise of our scholars and creative practitioners, you'll gain a distinctively unique degree which blends together the highly complementary disciplines of literature and creative writing. You will study a broad range of writing, from lyric poetry to contemporary fiction, whilst the flexible nature of our MA Literature and Creative Writing degree allows you to choose a creative-practice pathway or a theoretical pathway. Studying literature and creative writing at Essex means that you can build your degree around your interests.

Explore literature across time, geography and genre, while challenging yourself with our practice-based creative writing modules. Such modules, like our Creative Writing workshop, helps to hone your literary craft and technique, emphasising innovation and experimentation.

You study an eclectic range of topics such as:

• European Avant-Gardes of the Early Twentieth Century
• Global Writing and Literature in English
• Lyric Poetry
• Psychogeography
• Writing Audio and Digital Drama

Students would usually attend a two-hour seminar for each module each week. Seminar groups would usually have about 10-15 students.