With the expertise of Essex’s scholars and creative practitioners, students will gain a distinctively unique degree which blends together the highly complementary disciplines of literature and creative writing. Students will study a broad range of writing, from lyric poetry to contemporary fiction, whilst the flexible nature of the MA Literature and Creative Writing degree allows them to choose a creative-practice pathway or a theoretical pathway. Studying literature and creative writing at University of Essex means that students can build their degree around their interests.

Explore literature across time, geography and genre, while being challenged with Essex’s practice-based creative writing modules. Such modules, like the Creative Writing workshop, helps to hone student’s literary craft and technique, emphasizing innovation and experimentation.