This course is ideal for writers of all fiction who are looking to take their craft to the next level and develop genre fiction writing skills.
If you already have talent and ideas, this online programme is designed to add the expertise you need to approach your chosen market with confidence, originality and skill.
During your studies you will focus on popular fiction genres enabling you to professionalise your practice as a writer; be it science fiction, fantasy, romance, crime, horror and historical fiction — you choose which to put at the heart of your learning journey.
In addition, our team of award-winning and bestselling authors will give you regular one-to-one creative and editorial mentoring sessions to support your development.
This MA is designed to be studied part-time over six trimesters. In the first, second and fourth trimester, you will study two modules each trimester. In the first year third trimester a single module: Creative Mentoring and in the second year fifth and sixth trimesters, you will undertake a single module: Major Project. This programme has a start date in September every year.
In Year One in the first trimester, the two modules you take (Project Development and Narrative Perspectives) each have one live weekly online seminar, which will be timetabled for a time which aims to suit the whole cohort depending on geographical locations. There is also one module with a live weekly seminar in the second trimester (Genre Fictions) and a second module Creative Mentoring which continues into the third trimester. This is a mentoring module when you will have one-to-one mentoring with your own personal mentor at a mutually suitable time.
In Year two modules (Publishing Pathways and Editorial Mentoring) will be timetabled for a time to suit the geographical locations of the cohort. One of these (Publishing Pathways) will have a weekly online seminar, while the second (Editorial Mentoring) will have one-to-one mentoring with your own personal mentor at a mutually suitable time.
In the fifth and sixth trimesters (in Year Two) there is one long module (Major Project) with one-on-one Major Project supervision at a mutually suitable time. For the modules (Creative Mentoring, Editorial Mentoring and Major Project), you will have occasional live events again the time of these will aim to suit the geographical locations of the cohort. Mutually convenient times for one-to-one meetings with your programme tutor will be arranged in advance.
The course will be run during UK business hours (9 am - 5 pm) at a mutually suitable time for international students.