Program Overview

On our Creative, Digital and Professional Writing MA, you’ll develop an advanced variety of writing skills suitable for a wide range of professional settings and literary modes.

We’ll help you develop your own creative ideas so you can thrive in creative roles such fiction and nonfiction writer or editor. It will also open up career opportunities in industries including media, journalism, film, publishing, e-books, marketing and communications.

Making use of the University's £100,000 newsroom and with the support of our award-winning staff and guest lecturers from the world of digital writing and editing, you'll develop an understanding of the demands and opportunities of a professional writing career.

You'll also benefit from field trips that will fire your imagination, as well as work placements in some of the prestigious media organisations based in London. Our students have gained work experience at Harper Collins, The Sunday Times, Harper's Bazaar UK, BBC, leading health magazines and websites and many more.

Based at Holloway campus, this flourishing course is part of our internationally recognised School of Art, Architecture and Design, a thriving hub of the creative arts; you will have access to the rich array of exhibitions, talks, installations, lectures and performances that take place regularly in the School. We're based in central London and students are encouraged and helped to make full use of the city's remarkable range of cultural and artistic events and programmes. Our students come to us from around the world, as well as the UK – we currently have students from the USA, India, Ireland, Italy and South Africa; this diversity creates a rich creative mix.

What makes the course unique is its equal emphasis on creative work and professional employability. Independent external reviewers have judged our Creative, Digital and Professional Writing MA "innovative and versatile", praising its "exciting and varied content" and calling its focus on professional skills "up-to-date and outstanding". The quality of personal feedback that students receive has also been singled out. The work of our Creative, Digital and Professional Writing students is showcased in the School's online show, LIVENESS. As a student on this course, you'll also participate in the University's new Centre for Research into Life Writing and Oral History (CLiOH), which launched in March 2020.