Creative Writing

Key facts

• Our postgraduate taught and research-led writing courses are among the most challenging and popular in Britain, and have helped launch the career of a number of successful writers including Anne Donovan, Louise Welsh and Rodge Glass, to name but a few.

• The Creative Writing program at the University of Glasgow invites a range of guest speakers who can offer inspiration and advice to you, including authors, poets, journalists, publishers, editors, literary judges and playwrights. You can find information on previous guest speakers by visiting our creative writing subject page.

• We have strong links with literary agents and publishers, and an impressive number of our graduates are published and acclaimed authors.
• Career prospects
• Graduates have gone into journalism, publishing and writing.
• You can find a list of alumni on our Creative Writing subject pages. Others have been published in magazines and journals, or have had their work produced and broadcast on radio and television.
• A number of our graduates have won or been shortlisted for major prizes for poetry, short fiction and fiction including the Dundee Book Prize, Booker Prize, Bailey’s Women’s Prize, Orange Prize, Fish Short Story Award, Bridport Prize, McCash Scots Poetry Competition, Macallan and Canongate short story awards, Saltire Awards, Scottish Book of the Year Awards.

Courses include:

• Creative Writing: Craft and Experimentation

• Creative Writing: Editing and Publication

• Portfolio

• Creative Writing Workshop