MA Creative Writing

The University of Hertfordshire MA in Creative Writing offers you the opportunity to develop your creative, critical, and professional writing skills in a stimulating and supportive environment.

Through writing workshops and intensive tutorial-based supervision our teaching staff - all established authors themselves - will help you improve your own writing as you explore the advanced craft, theory, and techniques of poetry, prose, and drama.

Whether you have an unfinished novel you’re passionate about or want to learn how to write powerful dialogue or create memorable characters, this MA Creative Writing offers a range of modules that give you both literary context and practical professional guidance. In all modules you will be taught by lecturers who are themselves professional practitioners and who bridge the gap between creative and academic approaches to their fields.

These include two award-winning playwrights, Simon Vinnicombe, whose work has been produced at the National Theatre, Old Vic, and around the world, and Drew Pautz, who is additionally a screenwriter and director whose work has also been performed at the National Theatre. As a feature film screenwriter, he has worked with the UK and European production companies.