Literature and Languages
Postgraduate Applicants
M.Litt in Creative Writing
WELCOME
Stirling’s newly launched MLitt in Creative Writing offers the chance to live a writer’s year in the heart of Scotland.
We offer the opportunity to produce a body of work – poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction – under the guidance of first-class tutors and mentors.
A weekly Writer’s Workshop, private meetings with your tutors, and critical appraisal by mentors from outwith the university will develop and encourage your talent.
You’ll read widely, keep notebooks and journals, and learn to conduct your own research. You’ll also have the opportunity to meet noteworthy poets and fiction writers in our ongoing reading series.
We enjoy a close working relationship with the Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication, which runs world-leading courses in professional publishing, and each year hosts numerous visiting speakers from the industry.
Your tutors are internationally acclaimed poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie and award-winning fiction writer Paula Morris.
The option to take a PhD by Research is also available.
STRUCTURE AND CONTENT
In both the autumn and spring semesters, all full-time students take the core module, the Writer’s Workshop. In this core module, students read and discuss peer work and present their own creative work for discussion. Part-time students will take the Writer’s Workshop in the autumn semesters of both their first and second years.
Students will also take two option modules. Full-time students will take one option per semester; part-time students will take one in the spring semesters of both their first and second years.
In addition, all students will take a module over both semesters (in the spring semesters for part-time students) on Research Methods. This two-semester module is offered to all post-graduate students in the Arts and Humanities, and will include seminars – in publishing, creative pedagogy, archival research, and professional writing, among others – specifically tailored to creative writing students.
The creative dissertation, due at the end of the summer, will be 20,000 words of prose or a collection of 15-20 poems.
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Professor Kathleen Jamie or Dr Paula Morris Department of English Studies University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA UK |
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Tel: + 44 (0) 1786 467-510 |
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Fax: + 44 (0) 1786 466-210 |
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Email: Kathleen Jamie or Paula Morris |
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Web: Kathleen Jamie or Paula Morris |