Best Master's Degrees in Creative Writing in Europe 2020.
Our Creative Writing PhD is a practice based programme taught by teams of published creative writers and highly regarded literary scholars. Staff have expertise in fiction, poetry, children’s and young adult fiction, creative non-fiction and scriptwriting. 78% of our research has been rated as world-leading or internationally excellent (REF 2014).
This PhD aims to support you in the development of a long-form piece of creative writing, or a sequence of related works. You will outline, in detail, a specific creative project for completion within 3 years (full-time), and will also be able to identify critical concerns and interests related to your creative practice.
We have particular supervisory strengths in contemporary poetry, long fiction, short fiction, creative-critical writing and creative non fiction. Many of our PhD students work on projects that explore a sense of place, conflict, cultural tensions and synergies.
Entry requirements. Our Creative Writing PhD students come from a variety of academic backgrounds, nationalities, and writing experiences, but what successful applicants have in common is enormous writing talent and potential, and the commitment and ability to engage critically with the contexts in which they write, and the processes and techniques they employ.
The Creative Writing discipline supports research in contemporary writing and PhD study focused on creative writing. This research activity is closely associated with the discipline's Contemporary Cultures of Writing Research Group and Wasafiri, the Arts Council-funded magazine of international contemporary writing based at the OU. The core activity in this type of PhD study is the creation.
English Language and Creative Writing currently has 60 full- and part-time PhD, M.Phil and MA by Research students. PGR students are fully integrated into the research culture of the department, which was judged to be 7 th in the UK for research excellence in the 2014 REF.
During the Creative Writing programme offered by the Anglia Ruskin University you’ll develop your writing in a collaborative research environment with strong links to local research and creative networks, including Cambridge Literary Festival, Menagerie Theatre, Writers' Centre Norwich, CB1 Poetry, Women's Word at Lucy Cavendish College, and University of Cambridge’s Faculty of English and.