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Italian-english workshop at the 2024 online bclt summer school.

Goode, A. & Large, D.

Pro Helvetia

1/01/24 → 30/11/24

Project : Training

LTI Korea - Summer School 2024

Literature Translation Institute of Korea

1/01/24 → 31/10/24

Creating a culture of inclusion: Increasing Diversity and Equity of Access - Creating a culture of inclusion: Increasing Diversity and Equity of Access - IDEA

Reid, B. , Clark, A. , Cornish, C. , Deane, K. , Duvendack, M. , Hodgekins, J. , Horwood, N. , Mondal, A. , O'Connell, M. & Semlyen, J.

Wellcome Trust

1/01/24 → 31/12/25

Project : Research

Flip Through Flanders / Flemish Translation Workshop BCLT Summer School

Flanders Literature

10/12/23 → 30/11/24

'Here Once Did Sound Sweet Words’: Alliterative Innovation in Poetry and Poetics of the Long Nineteenth Century

Anderson, T. , Donnell, D. & Nowell Smith, D.

British Academy

1/12/23 → 30/11/26

Project : Fellowship

GI - BCLT Collaboration 2024

Goethe-Institut London

1/11/23 → 30/11/24

Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellows 2023-24

Royal Historical Society

1/10/23 → 30/09/24

A partnership for community-led health behaviour change research in areas of high socio-economic disadvantage

Hardeman, W. , Gordon, J. , Hanson, S. , Minihane, A. , Sweeting, A. , Abranches, M. , McNeil, J. , McWatt, T. , Robinson-Pant, A. & Varley, A.

National Institute for Health and Care Research

1/06/23 → 30/11/24

National Portfolio Funding (2023 - 2026)

The Arts Council of England

1/04/23 → 31/03/26

Project : Other

Chorus: Speaking in Unison in Modern Literature

Taunton, M.

1/01/23 → 30/06/24

CDP Studentship - British Library

Roebuck, T.

The British Library

1/10/22 → 30/09/29

Investigating the origins and development of the Cotton Collection at the British Library

Arts and Humanities Research Council

1/10/22 → 30/09/26

English and Scottish Scholars and the Global Library: From Aleppo to Massachusetts (1500-1700)

UK Research & Innovation

4/07/22 → 3/07/26

CWIT Fellowship 2022

Charles Wallace India Trust

1/03/22 → 28/02/25

Wreck of the Gloucester: The Life and Times of a c17 Third Rate English Warship

Leverhulme Trust

1/10/21 → 30/09/24

The Critical Decade for Climate Change

Le Quéré, C. , McNeil, J. & Tebboth, M.

1/10/21 → 30/09/27

Reimagining the past: Bringing North Walsham’s rich heritage to life through cultural programming and events

North Norfolk District Council

11/09/21 → 10/09/24

Just Scapes

Martin, A. & McNeil, J.

Economic and Social Research Council

1/12/20 → 31/05/24

Funded PGR Research Retreat: The methodologies and contexts of recovery research in the C21

Williams, N. , Donnell, D. & Lloyd Banwo, A.

Arts South-East England Cohort Development Fund

Chronicles of a shifting self: masks, bodies, labyrinths and the pursuit of identity in Abe Kobo’s narrative fiction (1945-1980)

Osborne, H.

Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (The)

29/03/24 → 14/04/24

Advanced Translation Workshop - Danish

Danish Arts Foundation

1/09/23 → 31/12/23

Gathering materials to complete a monograph on the writer Kanai Mieko

Japan Foundation Endowment Committee

26/06/23 → 13/08/23

Conducting archival research for the completion of a monograph on the writer, Kanai Mieko

Bclt summer school 2023.

The British Council

1/06/23 → 31/10/23

Proposal for an online Danish/Norwegian/Swedish to English Advanced Literary Translation Workshop for published literary translators in November 2023

Norwegian Literature Abroad

1/05/23 → 31/12/23

Partnerships for East Coast Communities - PECC's

Daniels, K. , Jowitt, C. , Little, B. & Fitzhugh, H.

18/04/23 → 17/09/23

Funded PGR Research Retreat: Decolonising Methodologies for “Recovery” and Archival Research in the C21

Williams, N. , Donnell, D., Cooper, K. & Lloyd Banwo, A.

1/04/23 → 30/04/23

Advanced Scandinavian Literary Translation Workshop - Swedish

Swedish Arts Council

1/04/23 → 31/12/23

BLCT Summer School 2023

National Museum of Taiwan Literature

1/01/23 → 31/12/23

LTI Korea - Summer School 2023

1/01/23 → 31/10/23

BCLT French Summer School 2023

1/01/23 → 30/09/23

BCLT Arabic Workshop and Mentoring Scheme

Sheikh Zayed Book Award

1/12/22 → 31/10/23

Seed funding a climate change stories repository – the Critical Decade

Tebboth, M. , Le Quéré, C. & McNeil, J.

1/11/22 → 31/10/23

Project : Internal Funding › NERC Discipline Hopping

BCLT Summer School 2022

New Books In German

1/06/22 → 31/12/22

Ukrainian Institute

25/05/22 → 30/09/22

GI - BCLT Collaboration 2022

1/05/22 → 31/12/22

BCS - BCLT Collaboration 2022

The British Croatian Society

New directions in collection, collaboration and curatorship: Towards a centre for contemporary poetry in the archive

Noel-Tod, J. & Mann, J.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

1/01/22 → 30/11/23

BCLT German Summer School 2022

1/01/22 → 30/09/22

1/01/22 → 31/05/23

1/01/22 → 31/12/22

The Lives of Pietro Aretino: The Art of Scandal in the Italian Renaissance

Rossiter, W.

1/10/21 → 31/10/23

Voices across the Reeds: Dramatising the effects of climate and time on RSPB Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk

Gordon, J. , McNeil, J. & Waters, S.

24/09/21 → 23/01/22

Speculative Nature Writing: Feeling for the Future

Smith, J. & Potter, R.

1/08/21 → 31/07/23

Institut Ramon Llull - Catalan Event

Institut Ramon Llull

1/06/21 → 31/01/22

Italian-English workshop at the BCLT Literary Translation Summer School in 2021.

Italian Cultural Institute

1/05/21 → 30/09/21

Dutch Foundation for Literature - Summer School 2021

Dutch Foundation for Literature

BCLT summer school - funding from Goethe-Institut

Danish workshop at the bclt international literary translation and creative writing summer school 2020, futures for creative writing online conference.

Holland, A.

European Association of Creative Writing

1/05/21 → 31/05/21

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Creative Writing: Crime Fiction

Entry requirements.

Degree Subject - Any Subject

Degree Classificaiton - Bachelors (Hons) degree (2.2 or equivalent preferred)

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The Creative Writing programme at UEA was the first of its kind in the UK and is distinguished by the unrivalled success of its alumni, who include the 2017 Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, and his fellow Booker Prize-winners Ian McEwan and Anne Enright. We introduced the first MA in 1970, the first PhD in 1987, and students now join us from all over the world.

The MA Crime Fiction builds on our world-leading expertise, presenting you with the unique opportunity to further your knowledge and skills within the highly dynamic crime genre. We have now embedded critical crime fiction and non-fiction modules across most levels of taught study within the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing , and doctoral research and supervision in the area is also growing at UEA. Plus, we’re a founding partner of Norwich’s annual crime writing festival , which takes place in September, coinciding with the September residential period.

The principal aim of the course is to help you develop a deeper understanding of the craft and context of producing exceptional crime writing, and have an enhanced critical awareness. By the end of the course, you’ll have become more adept and more self-aware in your own practice, and you will have completed a draft of a full-length novel.

You’ll become fully conversant with all aspects of being a professional writer, and – like all UEA creative writing students – will enjoy greatly enhanced prospects of publication on graduation. Our course builds on our extensive connections with publishers and agents.

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University of east anglia uea: creative writing crime fiction.

Overview Imagine writing an innovative full-length novel under the guidance of award-winning crime writers and experienced creative writing tutors. All without relocating or giving up work.

UEA’s part-time, low-residency MA Creative Writing Crime Fiction gives you unique flexibility with a distance-learning course supported by residencies. You’ll take the course via a specially designed, highly inclusive online platform, with three 2-day residential periods per year, circumstances permitting.

Our residencies have involved visits from literary agents and editors as well as professional writers such as Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Arne Dahl, Denise Mina, Dreda Say Mitchell, Cath Staincliffe, and Yrsa Siguroardottir.

By the end of the course, you’ll have a draft of a full-length work, a stronger self-awareness as a writer and critic, and a greatly increased chance of publication.

About This Course The Creative Writing programme at UEA was the first of its kind in the UK and is distinguished by the unrivalled success of its alumni, who include the 2017 Nobel Laureate Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, and his fellow Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Anne Enright. We introduced the first MA in 1970, the first PhD in 1987, and students now join us from all over the world.

The MA Crime Fiction builds on our world-leading expertise, presenting you with the unique opportunity to further your knowledge and skills within the highly dynamic crime genre. We have now embedded critical crime fiction and non-fiction modules across most levels of taught study within the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, and doctoral research and supervision in the area is also growing at UEA. Plus, we’re a founding partner of Norwich’s annual crime writing festival, Noirwich, which takes place in September, coinciding with the September residential period.

The principal aim of the course is to help you develop a deeper understanding of the craft and context of producing exceptional crime writing and have an enhanced critical awareness. By the end of the course, you’ll have become more adept and more self-aware in your own practice, and you will have completed a draft of a full-length novel.

You’ll become fully conversant with all aspects of being a professional writer, and – like all UEA creative writing students – will enjoy greatly enhanced prospects of publication on graduation. Our course builds on our extensive connections with publishers and agents.

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MA Creative Writing Prose Fiction

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Course Overview

Our course will help transform you as a writer, giving you a surer sense of the imaginative, artistic and intellectual challenges involved in any act of writing.

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 – which includes Jean McNeil, Naomi Wood and Tessa McWatt, to name a few – alongside internationally recognised visiting writers – recent examples include Tsitsi Dangarembga, Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Caryl Phillips and Preti Taneja.

We’ll challenge you to explore your notions about writing and being a writer, provoking you into play, experimentation and risk, with the intention of making you the best writer you can be.

After this intensive year, you’ll leave the course confident of technique and craft, as well as your own voice. It’s no wonder that our students’ success is unparalleled, with many of our graduates going on to publish their own work, and others moving into publishing, journalism or teaching.

The MA in Prose Fiction at UEA is the oldest and most prestigious Creative Writing programme in the UK. Solely focused on the writing of fiction, we take a rigorous and creative approach to enable you to develop your ideas, voice, technique and craft.

You’ll experience an intensive immersion in the study of writing prose fiction. You’ll take core creative modules but can also choose from a wide range of critical modules, and benefit from our proven strengths in modernism and creative-critical studies, among others.

Graduates of our MA Creative Writing Prose Fiction have enjoyed extraordinary success in terms of publications and prizes. Our alumni include Nobel Laureate Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, fellow Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Costa First Book Award Winners Emma Healey and Christie Watson, and many other internationally renowned novelists including Ayobami Adebayo, Naomi Alderman, Tash Aw, Stephen Buoro, Tracy Chevalier, Joe Dunthorne, Diana Evans, Mohammed Hanif, Elizabeth Macneal and Catriona Ward. The continuing success of our graduates means we are fortunate in being able to attract the best writers from around the world – writers like you.

While you are at UEA, the focus will be on exploring your creative potential, in a highly supportive and well-resourced environment.

In 2011, UEA’s Creative Writing programme was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in recognition of our continuing excellence in delivering innovative courses at a world-class level.

Study and Modules

This MA is a one-year full-time course (you can also take it part-time over two years). The full-time course consists of two semesters of 12 weeks, followed by a dissertation period of six weeks. The autumn semester lasts from September to December, and the spring semester from January to April. The dissertation supervision period ends in June, and you’ll submit your final piece of work in September.

In each semester, you’ll study two modules. One of these – in both semesters – is the compulsory Prose Fiction workshop. This is a weekly three-hour session, during which your group will discuss your fellow students’ works-in-progress. You’ll get the chance to attend a follow-up tutorial with your class tutor each time your work is discussed in these workshops.

Each workshop is assigned a tutor for the autumn semester, and a different tutor for the spring semester. Groups are ‘shuffled’ in December so you can encounter the widest range of peer responses to your work during the course. Teaching styles vary, but typically three students each week will have their work discussed by the group. The work-in-progress (around 5,000 words) is circulated a week in advance, and annotated copies are returned to the student at the end of the session. The emphasis is always on constructive criticism, and the expectation is that the group will gain as much from the discussion as will the individual whose work is being discussed. You can expect your writing to be workshopped multiple times over the course of the two semesters.

In each semester, you’ll choose a second module from the broad range of modules, both creative and critical, available in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing .

In the summer dissertation period, you’ll be assigned a supervisor for individual tutorials in which you’ll discuss your dissertation. You’ll then write this independently over the summer.

Compulsory Modules

Creative writing workshop: prose 1, creative writing workshop: prose 2, creative writing research methodology conference, creative writing (prose) dissertation, optional a modules, the transformation of the book 1500-1700, the art of short fiction, fiction 'after' modernism: re-reading the 20th century, the art of the novel, japanese literature, living modernism, optional b modules, digital storytelling, crime, mystery and the novel, ludic literature, east anglian literature, the non fiction novel, the poetics of place, creative encounters, the northern renaissance, 1500-1620, theory and practice of fiction, creative-critical writing, environmental humanities: human cultures and the natural world, adaptation and interpretation.

Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.

Teaching and Learning

You’ll be taught by an internationally renowned cohort of prize-winning authors, who have many years of experience in teaching Creative Writing. Current staff members who have taught on the MA include Trezza Azzopardi, Stephanie Bishop, Philip Langeskov, Giles Foden, Jean McNeil, Tessa McWatt, Julianne Pachico, and Naomi Wood. You’ll also be taught via one-to-one tutorials with your workshop leader to enrich your understanding of the key insights to come out of your workshop.

The one-to-one dissertation supervisions are intended to emulate the relationship that you may go on to have with an editor at a publishing house. Over the dissertation period, your tutor will be able to discuss your work and your ambitions for your project so that you will be best placed to draft and then finalise your work over the summer vacation.   Independent study

One of the great benefits of this year is that you’ll have ample time to read and write on your own. Some students use their independent study time to write a draft of a whole novel; others want to experiment over the course of the year with different projects and different styles.

You’ll submit 5,000 words of original fiction at the end of the autumn semester, and another 5,000 words at the end of the spring semester. You will also submit a 5,000-word piece of creative work or an essay (requirements vary) for each of your two optional modules.

For your dissertation, you’ll write 15,000 words of original fiction, to be submitted in September. All assessed work is marked and moderated by two members of the Creative Writing faculty, with the mark agreed between them.

Your work will be read and commented upon by faculty members around sixteen times over the course of the MA – this includes workshops, dissertation tutorials and the marking of assignments. Since this course and its tutors focus on prose fiction and the development of your abilities as a writer of prose fiction, we cannot workshop or assess other work you might produce, such as poetry or creative non-fiction. However, we would encourage you to circulate such work informally among your fellow students.

Entry Requirements

Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):   

IELTS: 7.0 overall (minimum 7.0 in writing and 6.0 in all other components)

Test dates should be within 2 years of the course start date.  

We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review  our English Language Equivalencies  for a list of qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.  

If you do not yet meet the English language requirements for this course, INTO UEA offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study:   

Pre-sessional English at INTO UEA    

Academic English at INTO UEA   

Promising candidates will be invited to one of our online interview days, which are scheduled across the academic year. Typically a candidate will be interviewed by two members of the Creative Writing faculty and we aim to inform candidates of the outcome within five working days. Unsuccessful candidates are welcome to re-apply, though not within the same academic year. Successful candidates will either be offered a place for the forthcoming academic year or a place for the following academic year (if it is felt that they need more time to develop as a writer). Once the forthcoming year is full candidates will be offered a place on our reserve list with the option of a place for the following academic year if a place does not become available. 

This course is open to UK and International applicants. The annual intake for this course is in September each year.

Please note that those candidates offered a place on the course will not be able to defer their offer to the next year if they are unable to take up the offer of a place, however they are welcome to reapply the next year.

Additional Information or Requirements

Candidates are required to submit a portfolio of writing for assessment of between 3000 and 5000 words with their application.  This could be part of a novel in progress or a piece or pieces of short fiction.

Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all postgraduate applicants. 

Fees and Funding

Tuition fees for the Academic Year 2024/25 are: 

UK Students: £11,000 (full time) 

International Students: £22, 450 (full time)

If you choose to study part-time, the fee per annum will be half the annual fee for that year, or a pro-rata fee for the module credit you are taking (only available for Home students). 

We estimate living expenses at £1,023 per month. 

Further Information on tuition fees can be found  here . 

Scholarships and Bursaries 

The University of East Anglia offers a range of  Scholarships ; please click the link for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.

The University of East Anglia offers a range of Scholarships . The following have the most relevance to the MA in Creative Writing:

Annabel Abbs Scholarship The Difference scholarship Global Voices Scholarships  Kowitz Scholarship  Maggie Humm Scholarship  Miles Morland Foundation African Writers' Scholarship Seth Donaldson Memorial Bursary  Sonny Mehta India Scholarship  Sonny Mehta Scholarship for Writers  UEA Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship  UEA Crowdfunded Writers' Scholarship 

To find out more, please go to the Scholarships Finder . Select the name of the scholarship, then select ‘view more’ to see if you meet the criteria, and ‘apply here’ to make an application.  

Course Related Costs

Please see Additional Course Fees for details of course-related costs.

How to Apply

Applications for Postgraduate Taught programmes at the University of East Anglia should be made directly to the University. 

The closing date for receipt of complete applications is 1 June 2024, including the relevant supporting documents and references. 

To apply please use our   online application form . 

FURTHER INFORMATION 

If you would like to discuss your individual circumstances prior to applying, please do contact us: 

Postgraduate Admissions Office 

Tel: +44 (0)1603 591515  Email:  [email protected]  

International candidates are also encouraged to access the  International Students  section of our website. 

Employability

After the course.

You’ll graduate as a better writer, reader and editor. You will graduate knowing how to best critique others’ work and your own. Many students go on to publish, others go on to a career in publishing, journalism, or teaching.

A degree at UEA will prepare you for a wide variety of careers. We've been ranked 1st for Job Prospects by StudentCrowd in 2022.

Example of careers that you could enter include:

    Writing

    Publishing

    Journalism

    Teaching

    Advertising

    Film and television

Discover more on our Careers webpages .

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