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MA Creative Writing*

  • Mode of study: Full-time or part-time
  • Study location: AUB Campus
  • How to apply: Apply directly to us
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Overview

This course will run from September 2026.

MA Creative Writing offers a supportive, focused space in which to develop your professional writing practice, mentored by industry professionals. Take your writing to the next level while sharing the journey with fellow wordsmiths.

This course may be studied full-time or part-time from September.

*This course is subject to validation.

Creative Writing students at Brownsea Island

Develop your writing practice with an ethical, ecological mindset

MA Creative Writing foregrounds ethics and ecology as intrinsic to the creative-critical practice of a situated, conscionable writer in the 21st Century. This approach is articulated in the Future Ecologies framework, which underpins the course, and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, which are used to ensure relevance and engagement with the major challenges of the modern age.

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Learn in an area of natural beauty and rich literary heritage

As a coastal university close to the UNESCO World Heritage Jurassic Coast, New Forest National Park, and Dorset National Landscape, AUB offers an inspiring, lively beach town location and base for writers seeking to connect with natural and cultural ecosystems in an area associated with many famous writers including Mary Shelley, John Le Carré, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and others.

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