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Literature and Creative Writing

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  • University/Institute Name University of Essex
  • Attendance Type On Campus (Full Time)
  • Position Duration1 year
  • Application deadlineJul 2026
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Position Details (Master's)

The Literature and Creative Writing degree at theUniversity of Essexallows 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.

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.

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.

Your future

The Literature and Creative Writing degree at the University of Essex opens many doors and our students have gone on to work in a number ofcareerssuch as writers, editors, publishers, scholars, university lecturers, teachers, journalists, arts administrators, theatre artistic directors, drama advisers, and translators.

Courses include:

  • Climate Fiction
  • The New Nature Writing
  • Writing the Novel
  • Memory Maps: Practices in Psychogeography
  • Dramatic Structure

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Position Start Date

Oct 2026