- Level
- Postgraduate
- Duration
- 1 year
- Mode
- Full-time
- Subject
- Creative Writing
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Next intake
- SEP 2026
Overview
Our MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction at UEA is the oldest and most prestigious creative writing programme in the UK. Our course will help transform you as a writer, giving you a surer sense of the imaginative, artistic and intellectual challenges involved in writing fiction. You’ll study the craft of prose fiction with an international cohort of other excellent writers, and you’ll be taught by an outstanding and committed faculty alongside internationally recognised visiting writers. Recent examples include Tsitsi Dangarembga, Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Eleanor Catton and Preti Taneja. Our Master’s in Creative Writing will challenge you to explore your notions about writing and being a writer, provoking you into play, experimentation and risk, to make you the best writer you can be. You’ll take core creative modules but can also choose from a wide range of critical modules.
Entry requirements
| Degree | 2:1 |
|---|
English language requirements
| IELTS | 6.5 overall, no part below 6 |
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IELTS 6.5 overall (minimum 6.0 in each component) or equivalent - check course page for specific requirements
Fees
International students: £25,300 per year
UK students: £12,350 per year
UK/Home: £12,350 per year
International: £25,300 per year
Start dates
September 2026
Application deadline
Rolling admissions - apply early
Campus
- Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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