creative writing phd france

Best Universities for Creative Writing in Europe

Updated: February 29, 2024

• Art & Design
• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Environmental Science
• Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
• Mathematics

Below is a list of best universities in Europe ranked based on their research performance in Creative Writing. A graph of 1.17M citations received by 136K academic papers made by 486 universities in Europe was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

Please note that our approach to subject rankings is based on scientific outputs and heavily biased on art-related topics towards institutions with computer science research profiles.

1. University of Oxford

For Creative Writing

2. University College London

3. University of Cambridge

4. King's College London

5. University of Manchester

6. University of Edinburgh

7. University of Exeter

8. University of Sheffield

9. University of Birmingham

10. University of Nottingham

11. University of Leeds

12. University of Bristol

13. Lancaster University

14. Durham University

15. University of York

16. University of Warwick

17. University of Glasgow

18. University of Amsterdam

19. Cardiff University

20. University of Sussex

21. University of London

22. London School of Economics and Political Science

23. Catholic University of Leuven

24. Aarhus University

25. University of Southampton

26. Queen Mary University of London

27. University of Oslo

28. University of St Andrews

29. Lund University

30. Royal Holloway, University of London

31. University of Liverpool

32. University of Helsinki

33. Newcastle University

34. University of Copenhagen

35. Umea University

36. Loughborough University

37. University of Leicester

38. Radboud University

39. Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin

40. University College Dublin

41. University of East Anglia

42. University of Kent

43. Stockholm University

44. Utrecht University

45. University of Reading

46. University of Gothenburg

47. Goldsmiths, University of London

48. Birkbeck, University of London

49. Leiden University

50. Queen's University Belfast

51. Complutense University of Madrid

52. Free University of Berlin

53. Keele University

54. University of Strathclyde

55. Manchester Metropolitan University

56. Free University Amsterdam

57. University of Tampere

58. University of Aberdeen

59. Ulster University

60. Aalborg University

61. University of Bergen

62. University of Warsaw

63. University of Bath

64. University of Groningen

65. Sapienza University of Rome

66. University of Liege

67. Northumbria University

68. University of Southern Denmark

69. University of Lisbon

70. University of Jyvaskyla

71. Autonomous University of Barcelona

72. University of Portsmouth

73. University of Surrey

74. University of Vienna

75. University of Stirling

76. University of Padua

77. Brunel University London

78. Linkoping University

79. University of Granada

80. University of Turin

81. University of Hull

82. Norwegian University of Science and Technology

83. Adam Mickiewicz University

84. Nottingham Trent University

85. Teesside University

86. Ghent University

87. University of Minho

88. Maastricht University

89. Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main

90. University of Florence

91. University of Milan

92. De Montfort University

93. SOAS, University of London

94. Uppsala University

95. Bournemouth University

96. Oxford Brookes University

97. University of Bologna

98. University of the West of England

99. University of Plymouth

100. University of Essex

Art & Design subfields in Europe

• ENLIGHTEN THE FUTURE

Doctoral Studies

With its 21 doctoral schools, Université Paris Cité offers many doctoral students the opportunity to train through research in all major disciplinary fields. At the national level, once fully operational, Université Paris Cité will offfer 5% of all PhD degrees in France.

Université Paris Cité is committed to a doctoral policy aimed at research training and training by research. It trains future researchers and teacher-researchers as well as future high-level executives.

Astronomy and Astrophysics Ile-de-France – ED 127 Director : Mr. Thierry FOUCHET Contact : Mrs. Jacqueline PLANCY

Environmental Sciences Ile-de-France – ED 129 Director : Mrs Pascale BOURUET-AUBERTOT Contact : Mrs Laurence AMSILI-TOUCHON

Doctoral School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, Electronics of Paris (EDITE) – ED 130 Director : Mr. Carlos AGON Contact : Mrs Rose NAHAN

Language, Litterature and Imagery : civilisations and humanities – ED 131 Director : Mr. Mathieu DUPLAY Co-director : Mrs Emmanuelle ANDRE Contact : Mrs Robin CHEVALIER

Cognition, Brain, Behaviour (ED3C) – ED 158 Director : Mr Alain TREMBLEAU Deputy director UPCité   :Mrs Thérèse COLLINS Contact : Mrs Hélène JOUANNE

Cognition, Behaviour, Human behaviour (3CH) – ED 261 Director : Mrs Karine DORE-MAZARS Contact : Mrs Lucie ALEX

Legal, political sciences, economics and management – ED 262 Director  : Mrs Anémone CARTIER-BRESSON Contact : Mrs Josie YEYE

Mathematical science Paris Centre – ED 386 Director : M. Elisha FALBEL Co-director  : M. Pierre-Henri CHAUDOUARD Contact : Mrs Amina HARITI

Physical Chemistry and Analytical chemistry – ED 388 Director : Mrs Alexa COURTY Contact : Mrs Konnavadee SOOBRAYEN

Pierre Louis Doctoral School of Public Health in Paris : Epidemiology and Biomedical Information Sciences – ED 393 Director  : Mr. Pierre-Yves BOËLLE Contact : Mrs Koltoum BEN SAID

Research in Psychoanalysis – ED 450 Director : Mrs Mi-Kyung YI Co-director : Mr Thamy AYOUCH Contact : Mr Ali BRADOR

Frontiers of Innovation in Research and Education (FIRE) – ED 474 Director : Mrs Muriel MAMBRINI-DOUDET  Co-directeur David TARESTE Contact : Mrs Elodie KASLIKOWSKI

Earth and Environmental Sciences and Physics of the Universe – ED 560 Director : Mr. Fabien CASSE Contacts : Mrs Alissa MARTEAU

Hematology, Oncogenesis, and Biotherapies – ED 561 Director  : Mr. Raphaël ITZYKSON Contacts : Mr Maxime DA CUNHA / Mrs Aurélie BULTELLE

Bio Sorbonne Paris Cité – ED 562 Director : Mrs Caroline LE VAN KIM – Co-Director : Mrs Chantal DESDOUETS Contacts : Mr Louis DUVAL-KISTER

Drug Toxicology, Chemistry and Imaging (MTCI) – ED 563 Director  : Mrs Marie-Christine LALLEMAND Contact : Mrs Elisabeth HOMBRADOS

Physics in Ile de France – ED 564 Director  : Mr Frédéric CHEVY Co-director : Mr Philippe LAFARGE Contact : Mrs Monia MESTAR

Sports, Motricity and Humain mobility sciences (SSMMH) – ED 566 Director  : Mrs Isabelle SIEGLER Co-director : Mr. Bernard ANDRIEU Contact : Mrs Marie-Pierre RICHOUX

Language Sciences – ED 622 Director : Mrs Caterina DONATI Contact : Mrs Chafia AIT-HELAL

Knowledge, Science, Education – ED 623 Co-Director : Mr. Fabrice VANDEBROUCK Co-Director : Mrs Anne BARRERE Contact : Mrs Agathe TRAN

Social Sciences – ED 624

Department 1 Director : Mrs Véronique PETIT Contact : Mr. Jérôme BROCHERIOU

Department 2

Director : Mr Antoine REBERIOUX Contact : Mrs Sarah RAHMANI

More information :

Doctoral School website for more information The following content is in French French higher education system chart

• Creative Writing

The Creative Writing summer workshop brings together internationally acclaimed authors and students to study craft in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and travel writing.

Creative Writing programs

Summer workshop, enroll in our creative writing programs, creative writing faculty.

Dinah Lenney is the author of  The Object Parade and  Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir and, with Judith Kitchen, edited  Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction (W.W. Norton, 2015). Her essays and reviews have been published in a wide range of publications and anthologies including  The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, AGNI, Creative Nonfiction, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly,  and the  Los Angeles Review of Books , where is the senior editor of creative nonfiction.

Elliott Holt is the author of the novel You Are One of Them , which was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the NBCC’s John Leonard Award for a first book. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Time, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review , and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and the 2015 Ellen Levine Award for her novel-in-progress. @elliottholt

Major Jackson is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently  Roll Deep , hailed in the  New York Times Book Review  as “a remixed odyssey.” His other volumes include  Holding Company ,  Hoops , and  Leaving Saturn . Jackson has published poems, essays, and book reviews in  American Poetry Review ,  Callaloo ,  The New Yorker ,  The Paris Review ,  Ploughshares ,  Poetry ,  Tin House , and in several volumes of  Best American Poetry . He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, among other honors. Major Jackson is the Richard A. Dennis Green & Gold Professor and University Distinguished Professor at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of  The Harvard Review .

Rolf Potts’ essays and reportage have appeared in such venues as  The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic Traveler, Sports Illustrated,  the Travel Channel, and National Public Radio, as well as over 20 nonfiction anthologies, including the  Best American Travel Writing  series and the  Best Creative Nonfiction  series. He has won five Lowell Thomas Awards for his travel writing, and his first book,  Vagabonding , has been translated into seven languages. His second book,  Marco Polo Didn’t Go There , was the first American-authored travel book to win Italy’s prestigious Bruce Chatwin Award. Potts has taught nonfiction writing at Yale University, and he has served as the Paris American Academy writing workshop program director since 2005.

Study in Paris

• Fashion Design
• Interior Design

• Home »
• University of Kent »
• Paris School of Arts and Culture »
• Creative Writing (Paris)

find your perfect postgrad program Search our Database of 30,000 Courses

University of kent: creative writing (paris).

Designed with serious, ambitious writers in mind, this innovative and interdisciplinary Creative Writing MA combines taught modules and a dissertation. Your studies take place at Kent's Paris School of Arts and Culture. Alongside your creative writing modules, you are encouraged to consider choosing modules from the broad range of options offered our Paris centre. This programme offers students a unique opportunity to find inspiration both in and out of the classroom and to develop a creative voice in the stimulating surroundings of Montparnasse.

You can choose to begin your studies in September or January and can take a standard (90 ECTS) or an extended (120 ECTS) version of the programme. Part-time study is only available for EU/EEA passport holders, and for those who have the right to remain in France for the duration of their degree.

Full-Time, 1 years starts Jan 2025

Full-Time, 1 years starts Sep 2024

Here at the University of Kent , we understand your passion to progress. Whether gaining advanced skills or joining a global academic research community drives you, our networks and facilities will help you achieve your ambition. Build a global network of connections by joining our thriving, supportive, international community of staff and students studying in the UK and Europe.

Sign up to our newsletter  

Get the latest updates from Kent directly, find out about our latest scholarships and funding options, upcoming events and tailored subject-specific content.

Postgraduate programmes – Challenge Yourself.

Become a critical, creative and strategic thinker with high-level …

Not what you are looking for?

Postgraduate Bursary Opportunity with Postgrad.com

Are you studying as a PG student at the moment or have you recently been accepted on a postgraduate program? Apply now for one of our £2000 PGS bursaries.

Exclusive bursaries Open day alerts Funding advice Application tips Latest PG news

Complete Our Destination Survey

Take 2 minutes to complete our Destination Survey for the chance to win a Postgrad Study Bursary worth £2,000.

All we need to know is:

• Your university
• Your PG course

Study abroad in Paris, France : Most popular universities for Creative Writing .

Are you thinking of studying Creative Writing, abroad? Below you can find the most popular universities and programmes to study Creative Writing in Paris, France. This list is based on visitors on the Studyportals websites, listing more than 150,000 English-taught Bachelor's and Master's programmes world-wide.

The American University of Paris

University of kent - paris school of arts and culture, sciences po, european screenwriting school of paris-ceea, most popular creative writing programmes for international students in paris.

These are the most popular programmes among international students who are looking for a Creative Writing degree in Paris.

Writing & Criticism B

Creative nonfiction: crafting personal narratives, the poetic experience: a writing workshop, writing fiction, ceea international screenwriting summer class, writing and criticism, communications, media and creative industries.

• Creative Writing

Study abroad in English

To apply at one of these universities, you may need a proof of English proficiency. There are several standardised English tests that you can take to proof your English level, such as the PTE (Pearson Test of English), TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), CAE (Cambridge Advanced English) and IELTS (International English Language Testing System), offered by British Council and IDP. IELTS is the most popular of these tests, with British Council offering more than 1000 test locations and being accepted by more than 9,000 organisations world-wide.

About Creative Writing

Creative Writing degrees teach ways of building stories by expressing thoughts, feelings, and emotions using the written medium, as opposed to simply presenting written facts. Future creative writers learn to use elements of fiction, character creation, and plot development. Upon graduation, you’ll have the opportunity to work as a play writer, screenwriter, journalist, or fiction writer.

Related disciplines

• Language Studies
• Philosophy & Ethics
• Religious Studies & Theology
• Ancient History
• Christian Studies
• General Studies & Classics
• Islamic Studies
• Liberal Arts
• Modern History
• Linguistics

IELTS: A Global Benchmark in 2024

Ace Your IELTS: Free Practice Tests on Admissiontestportal

Short Guide on How to Prepare for IELTS at Home and Take the Test Online

The dream of studying abroad

Test your english language proficiency, free practice material.

Thanks for signing up. You will receive an email with our practice material shortly.

Do you also know that we have a special reduction of 20% on IELTS preparation courses from Impact Learning? Take the best possible IELTS preparation course and achieve a high score for your admittance to your university.

We have 0 Creative Writing France PhD Programmes PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Paris

Creative Arts & Design

Paris  France

Institution

All Institutions

France PhD Programmes

All Funding

Creative Writing France PhD Programmes PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Paris

There are currently no PhDs listed for this Search. Why not try a new PhD search .

FindAPhD. Copyright 2005-2024 All rights reserved.

Unknown    ( change )

Have you got time to answer some quick questions about PhD study?

Select your nearest city

You haven’t completed your profile yet. To get the most out of FindAPhD, finish your profile and receive these benefits:

• Monthly chance to win one of ten £10 Amazon vouchers ; winners will be notified every month.*
• The latest PhD projects delivered straight to your inbox
• Access to our £6,000 scholarship competition
• Weekly newsletter with funding opportunities, research proposal tips and much more
• Early access to our physical and virtual postgraduate study fairs

Or begin browsing FindAPhD.com

or begin browsing FindAPhD.com

*Offer only available for the duration of your active subscription, and subject to change. You MUST claim your prize within 72 hours, if not we will redraw.

Do you want hassle-free information and advice?

Create your FindAPhD account and sign up to our newsletter:

• Find out about funding opportunities and application tips
• Receive weekly advice, student stories and the latest PhD news
• Hear about our upcoming study fairs
• Save your favourite projects, track enquiries and get personalised subject updates

Create your account

Looking to list your PhD opportunities? Log in here .

Filtering Results

Search form

• Honorary Degree Recipients
• AUP History Timeline
• Faces of AUP - Dr. Lloyd A. DeLamater
• Faces of AUP - Marie Louise Viborel DeLamater
• Faces of AUP - Col. Karl S. Cate
• Faces of AUP - Raymond D. Flowers
• Faces of AUP - Walter J. Brennan
• Mission & Core Values
• Vision Statement
• About the President
• Past Presidents
• The Presidential Award for Distinguished Achievement
• Board of Trustees
• PAAC Members
• Strategic Plan
• Delivering Academic Excellence
• Memberships
• Partnerships and Consortia
• Institutional Research
• Assessment Structure
• Assessment Process
• Assessment Calendar
• Assessment Resources
• Middle States Commission on Higher Education
• Steering Committee
• The Office of Institutional Research, Assessment and Effectiveness
• Retention and Graduation Rates
• Student Right to Know
• State Nonprofit Disclosures
• Publications
• Gender Equality Plan
• Undergraduate Outcomes
• Graduate Outcomes
• Online Campus Tour
• Combes Student Life Center
• Grenelle Teaching and Mentoring Center
• Quai d'Orsay Learning Commons
• The Monttessuy Center for the Arts
• Permanent Collection
• Past Exhibitions
• Call for Submissions
• Policies & Guidelines
• Majors & Minors
• Integrative Inquiry for the Global Explorer
• Critical Inquiry and Expression
• Quantitative and Experimental Reasoning
• Expression Française
• AUP Capstone
• Prior General Education Program
• Core Capabilities
• English Courses
• Program Requirements
• Career Outcomes
• Fashion Studies at AUP
• MSc in Strategic Brand Management
• Find Your Thesis Advisor
• Previous Programs
• Cultural Programs History
• Study Trips
• Cultural Excursions
• Coup de Pouce
• Summer Trips and Excursions
• Cultural Program Videos
• Conferences & Talks
• Faculty Directory
• Faculty Emeriti
• Summer School
• Upcoming Events
• Coordinated Reports
• EU Horizon Grant
• OppAttune: Countering Oppositional Political Extremism
• Call for Papers - Violent Turns
• Democracy Lab (D.Lab)
• CCDS Highlights
• An Interview with Stephen Sawyer
• Past Events
• Cahiers Series
• The Muriel Sparks' Letters
• Beckett Letters
• Music & Literature
• The White Review
• That Other Word
• An Interview with Dan Gunn
• Community: Writers, Translators & Artists
• Press Coverage
• Figuring Memory Seminar
• About the Conference
• Keynote Speakers
• Abstracts and Program
• Hotels and Restaurants
• The Archives
• Fellowships for Faculty, Staff and Students
• Research Scholarship for Undergraduate Students
• International Conferences & Workshops
• Study Trips & Classes
• Event Replays
• International Courts
• Terrorism Courts
• Migration Courts
• Strategic Lawyering
• "On the Edge" Project
• Justice Lab Talks
• Beetle Kinship Project
• Climate Change Project
• Podcast: Water Is Not Just Water
• An Interview with Claudio Piani
• Upcoming & Past Events
• Event Spotlight
• MCGC Working Podcasts
• Affiliations and Partnerships
• Coexist: Culture and Conflict
• Media Art, Sound & Listening
• Sensory Studies
• Building Bridges
• Migration, Exile, Identities
• Civic Engagement in the Workplace: Working for a Better World
• Tactical Media
• Gender: Taking Action
• Mapping Power, Studying Crisis: Keeping an Eye on the World
• Art History and Fine Arts
• Computer Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Science
• French Writing Lab
• French Honor Society
• FfIRE - Forum francophone interdépartemental de recherches et d'enseignement
• Psychology, Health & Gender
• Student - Erin Garry
• Student - Linnea Wingerup
• Economics and Management Highlights
• History and Politics
• Academic Policies and Procedures
• Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate
• Committee for Rank and Promotion
• Curriculum Committee
• GLACC Committee
• Ethics Committee
• Institutional Review Board
• Council of Chairs
• Graduate Program Review Board
• Council of Directors of Research Centers
• Appeals Committee
• Budget Committee
• Faculty Support
• Curricular Proposal Documents
• Department Chair and Graduate Program Director Resources
• Academic Calendar
• Information for Faculty
• Information for Students
• Peer Tutoring
• Writing Resources
• Writing in the Disciplines
• ...And More
• Returning Student Registration
• Scheduling Information
• Request Form
• Graduate Thesis and Capstone Forms
• External Course Pre-Approval
• Room Reservation
• Transferring out
• FERPA Information
• Registrar’s Office: FAQs
• Teaching Resources
• Center in Action
• Employer Network
• Services & Accommodations
• Documentation & Registering
• Policies & Procedures
• Faculty Involvement
• Resources & Forms
• Paris and Accessibility
• Frequently Asked Questions & Definition
• Quai D'Orsay Learning Commons
• Paris as Classroom
• Internship Spotlights
• Degree Requirements & Worksheets
• Academic Advisor Assignments
• Forms, Information and Useful Links for Students
• First Year Abroad and Visiting Students
• Transfer Students
• Bachelor's/Master's Program
• External Language Study
• GPS & Academics
• Design Thinking Workshops
• GPS Panel Presentations
• Requirements
• Pre-Approval Paperwork
• Career & Internship Planning 
• Global Talent Profile
• Global Mentoring Program
• Fellowships, Scholarships & Grants
• Career and Internship Services
• Job and Internship Databases
• Global Professional Skills (GPS) Program
• Career and Internship Resources for Students
• ACE Newsletter Archives
• Career Services
• Mentor an AUP Student
• Job Databases
• Engage With AUP
• How You Can Help
• Global Talent Portal
• Share a Job or Internship Opportunity
• AUP Internship Program
• Get Involved With AUP
• Faculty Collaboration
• How to Apply
• Estimated Living Expenses
• IB Diploma Scholarships
• Course Transfer Tool
• Credit Transfer
• Part-time Studies
• Homeschooled Students
• Deferring Your Offer
• 38 Credit Programs
• 42 Credit Programs
• 48 Credit Programs: MADIL
• 48 Credit Programs: MAGC
• 48 Credit Program: MSIM
• 48 Credit Program: SBM
• Financial Aid
• French Immersion
• Creative Writing
• Tuition & Costs
• Summer Trips & Excursions
• Summer Housing
• Summer Calendar
• Prepare for Arrival
• How to Apply: Gap Year Visitor
• How to Apply: Independent Study Abroad
• How to Apply: Study Abroad Partner
• Veterans Scholarship
• Applying for Benefits
• Yellow Ribbon Program
• Request Information
• Find Your Counselor
• Counselor Advisory Board
• Admissions Calendar
• Quai d’Orsay Learning Commons
• La Tour-Maubourg Administration Building
• Passage Landrieu
• Saint Dominique
• Visit the Campus
• Online Application
• Validation des Acquis de l'Experience
• Your Housing Options
• AUP Housing
• Housing Database
• Searching on Your Own & Housing Resources
• Meet the Team
• Procedures and Policies
• IT Services
• Campus Security
• Emergency Services
• Student Leadership Office
• Staff and Faculty Advisors to Student Senate
• Minutes & Reports
• Student Advisor Program
• Sophomore Mentoring Program
• Competitive Sports
• Clubs & Classes
• Gym Memberships
• Student Organizations
• Print Media
• Digital Media
• Broadcast Media
• Audio Media
• Service Organizations
• Student Leadership Awards
• Safety in Paris
• Student Jobs
• Transportation
• Food & Shopping
• Inexpensive Entertainment
• Settling In
• Leaving Paris
• Student Development Help Desk
• Undergraduate Tuition & Fees
• Graduate Tuition & Fees
• Payments and Procedures
• Tuition Refunds
• U.S. Tax Information
• Taxes for non EU packages
• Apply for Slosberg Travel Grant
• The Barbara Reno Senior Prize for Excellence in Filmmaking
• Sin-ming Shaw Award for Excellence
• Third-Party Payments / 529 Plans
• First-year Students
• Under-18 Students
• Returning Students
• Visiting Students
• Graduate Students
• Summer Students
• Part-Time Students
• EU Students and Dual citizenship (non EU - EU)
• Forms & Resources
• Student Grievance Procedure
• Diversity Council
• Reimbursement
• Hospitalization
• Useful Tips
• Finding Medical Providers
• Immunization
• Counseling Program - Policies, Procedures and Confidentiality
• Suicide Prevention
• Sexual Misconduct Prevention
• Alcohol and Substance Abuse
• Support for our Diverse Communities
• Time Management
• Digital Student Handbook
• Commencement Ceremony
• Graduation Gala
• Graduation FAQs
• Campus Access
• Tours, Visitors & Guests
• Alumni Visit Information
• Faculty & Staff Resources
• Presidential Lecture Series
• About the 2022 Fashion Education Conference
• Fashion Education Resources
• Fashion Education Podcast
• Demos21 Lecture Series
• Conference Committee
• The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2020
• Paris Centennial Conference
• Jessica Newman '01
• Craig Brown G'11
• Wanja Laiboni '07
• The Quai d'Orsay Learning Commons
• Student Scholarships
• The Cultural Program
• Get Involved
• Career Mentors
• Parent Ambassadors
• Jasmine Paul '18
• Lavinia Stanescu
• Slosberg Travel Grant
• Faith Toran G'18
• Professor Tresilian
• Clark Marchese
• Housing Requirement
• How to Register
• Payment and Refund Policies
• AUP Annonciation
• AUP Champs Élysées
• AUP Heliopolis
• AUP Jouffroy d'Abbans
• AUP Tisserand
• Citadines Aparthotel
• Flexliving Independent Apartments
• Studelites Le Marechal
• YouFirst Tolbiac
• Selecting AUP Housing
• Housing Prices
• How to Register for Housing
• YouFirst La Defense
• IRIS Project
• Get started
• Service Catalog
• Security, policies and procedures
• Get IT Help
• Alumni Benefits
• Alumni Stories
• Career Resources
• Admitted Students
• Current Students
• Faculty & Staff
• Prospective Students
• Parents & Families
• De-Radicalisation in Europe and Beyond
• Fellowships, Grants and Scholarships
• Courts and Global Challenges
• Archived Projects
• Administrative Forms

Related Links

• Summer Programs
• Summer Creative Writing Institute
• Professor Greene

Olympics 2024:

Featured course, creative writing institute, poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and more.

AUP’s Summer Creative Writing Institute offers you the opportunity to write and share poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, engage in the creative experience of translation under the guidance of a highly accomplished faculty, enjoy Paris life and culture, and steep yourself in the city’s great, literary legacy.

The Summer Creative Writing Institute was a wonderful experience that allowed me to grow creatively and further pursue my passion in writing. I would definitely recommend this program to those who want to challenge themselves and become better writers.

Throughout its history, Paris has inspired writers from across the globe, often providing refuge from the intolerance, censorship, or parochialism of their home countries. Amid social and political upheaval, Paris has constantly shone light on revolutionary approaches to literary form and subject matter and while towering figures of French literature, including Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac, made frequent use of Paris in their work, the artistic spirt of the city attracted writers from all over the world, including Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and James Baldwin.

Along with workshops and modules that will help you read your work objectively, develop a critical vocabulary, and work intensively on issues of craft, you will attend readings and Q&A sessions with inspiring authors, discuss the creative process, take advantage of AUP’s learning and social spaces, and explore the richness of the surrounding 7th arrondissement neighborhood, where at the height of summer, you will see Paris at her best.

Maria Lujan Tubio ’03

The amount of emphasis my professors placed on student–teacher contact was very special.

AUP has been the perfect way to finish my undergraduate studies.

Gabrielle Flam ’10

AUP cemented my desire to study literature and writing and helped spark my intellectual curiosity and creativity.

King's College London

Creative writing research phd.

Key information

The PhD in Creative Writing at King’s is a practice-led course, incorporating taught elements and aspects of professional development. It is designed to cater for talented, committed writers who are looking to complete a book-length creative work for publication and sustain a long-term career in writing.

Key Benefits

Our unique programme offers students:

• a varied, structured framework for the development of their creative work, with regular feedback from experienced author-lecturers in the department through supervision and workshops
• purposeful engagement with professionals from the publishing and performance industries throughout the course, building potential routes to publication
• valuable teaching experience in creative writing at HE-level through our Graduate Teaching Assistantship scheme
• practical experience in public engagement, through curating and chairing public literary events at King’s
• a community of fellow writers and collaborative projects

English Department

We have over 100 doctoral students from all over the world working on a wide range of projects. Together with our community of postdoctoral fellows, our early career researchers both organise and participate in our thriving seminar and conference culture.

The English department is home to award-winning novelists, poets, essayists, biographers, non-fiction authors, and literary critics, who supervise creative projects at doctoral level within their specialisms.

Works by our staff have won or been shortlisted for a number of literary accolades, including: the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize, the Man Booker Prize, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Costa First Novel Award, the Costa Poetry Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Commonwealth Book Prize, the Biographers’ Club / Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize, the U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award, the CWA Gold Dagger Award, the European Union Prize for Literature, the RSL Encore Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Letters, le Prix du Roman Fnac, le Prix du Roman Etranger, the Kiriyama Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Many of the creative writing staff are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.

Their most recent publications are:

Benjamin Wood

The Young Accomplice (Penguin Viking, 2022) – fiction

A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better (Scribner, 2018) – fiction

Edmund Gordon

The Invention of Angela Carter (Chatto & Windus, 2016) – creative non-fiction

Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015) – poetry

Anthony Joseph

Sonnets for Albert (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) – poetry

The Frequency of Magic (Peepal Tree Press, 2019) – fiction

Lara Feigel

The Group (John Murray Press, 2020) – fiction

Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing (Bloomsbury, 2018) – creative non-fiction

Homing: On Pigeons, Dwellings, and Why We Return (John Murray Press, 2019) – creative non-fiction

Daughters of the Labyrinth (Corsair, 2021) – fiction

Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life (Chatto & Windus, 2020) – poetry

Emerald (Chatto & Windus, 2018) – poetry

Andrew O'Hagan

Mayflies (Faber & Faber, 2020) – fiction

The Secret Life: Three True Stories (Faber & Faber, 2017) – creative non-fiction

*may vary according to research leave and availability.

King's Alumni

The list of King’s alumni not only features many acclaimed contemporary authors—Michael Morpurgo, Alain de Botton, Hanif Kureishi, Marina Lewycka, Susan Hill, Lawrence Norfolk, Ross Raisin, Alexander Masters, Anita Brookner, and Helen Cresswell—it also includes major figures in literature, such as Maureen Duffy, Arthur C Clarke, Thomas Hardy, Christopher Isherwood, BS Johnson, John Keats, W. Somerset Maugham, and Virginia Woolf.

Course Detail

Our postgraduate writing students are given a supportive environment in which to enhance their technique, to explore the depths of their ideas, to sustain their creative motivation, and to prepare them for the demands of the writer’s life beyond the College.

At King's we know that writing well requires self-discipline and an ability to work productively in isolation; but we also appreciate that postgraduate writers thrive when they are part of a community of fellow authors, an environment of constructive criticism and shared endeavour.

That is why we offer our PhD students the guidance of knowledgeable and experienced practitioners. They will have frequent opportunities to interact and collaborate with peers and forge lasting connections within London’s writing industry.

Students will be expected to attend the quarterly Thesis Workshop, and also to take an active part in curating literary events at King’s, including the Poetry And… quarterly reading series. They will be invited to apply for positions teaching undergraduate creative writing modules as part of the Department’s Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA) scheme.

After three years (full-time) or six years (part-time), students are expected to submit either:

• a novel or short story collection
• a poetry collection
• a full-length work of creative non-fiction

In addition, they are also required to submit an essay (up to 15,000 words) that examines their practical approach to the conception, development, and revision of their project, and which explores how their creative work was informed by research (archival, book-based, or experiential).

• How to apply
• Fees or Funding

Many of our incoming students apply for AHRC funding via the London Arts and Humanities Partnership. Please see their website ( www.lahp.ac.uk ) for more detail of deadlines, application procedure and awards available. Also the ‘Student Funding’ section of the Prospectus will give you more information on other scholarships available from King’s.

UK Tuition Fees 2023/24

Full time tuition fees:

£5,820 per year (MPhil/PhD, Creative Writing)

Part time tuition fees:

£2,910 per year (MPhil/PhD, Creative Writing)

International Tuition Fees 2023/24

£22,900 per year (MPhil/PhD, Creative Writing)

£11,450 per year (MPhil/PhD, Creative Writing)

UK Tuition Fees 2024/25

£6,168 per year (MPhil/PhD, Creative Writing)

£3,084 per year (MPhil/PhD, Creative Writing)

International Tuition Fees 2024/25

£24,786 per year (MPhil/PhD, Creative Writing)

£12,393 per year (MPhil/PhD, Creative Writing)

These tuition fees may be subject to additional increases in subsequent years of study, in line with King’s terms and conditions.

• Study environment

Base campus

Strand Campus

Located on the north bank of the River Thames, the Strand Campus houses King's College London's arts and sciences faculties.

PhD in Creative Writing students are taught through one-to-one sessions with an appointed supervisor in their chosen specialism (fiction, creative non-fiction, or poetry) as well as through quarterly thesis workshops. They are also appointed a second supervisor whose role is to offer an additional perspective on the work being produced.

We place great emphasis on pastoral care and are a friendly and welcoming department in the heart of London. Our home in the Virginia Woolf Building offers many spaces for postgraduate students to work and socialise. Studying in London means students have access to a huge range of libraries from the Maughan Library at King’s to the Senate House Library at the University of London and the British Library.

Our PhD Creative Writing students are taught exclusively by practicing, published writers of international reputation. These include:

Benjamin Wood (Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing)

Supervises projects in fiction.

Edmund Gordon (Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing)

Supervises projects in fiction and creative non-fiction.

Sarah Howe (Lecturer in Poetry)

Supervises projects in poetry.

Anthony Joseph (Lecturer in Creative Writing)

Supervises projects in poetry and fiction.

Jon Day (Senior Lecturer in English)

Supervises projects in creative non-fiction and fiction

Lara Feigel (Professor of Modern Literature)

Supervises projects in creative non-fiction and fiction.

Ruth Padel (Professor Emerita of Poetry)

Andrew O’Hagan (Visiting Professor)

*Teaching staff may vary according to research leave and availability.

Our programme also incorporates the following taught components:

Thesis Workshop

A termly writing seminar for the discussion and appraisal of works-in-progress. These are taught on a rotational basis by all members of the creative writing staff, so that students get the benefit of hearing a range of voices and opinions on their work throughout the course.

The Writing Life

A suite of exclusive guest talks and masterclasses from leading authors, publishers, and editors, in which students receive guidance from people working at the top level of the writing industry and learn about the various demands of maintaining a career as a writer.

Recent speakers have included Amit Chaudhuri, Chris Power, Rebecca Watson, Mendez, Frances Leviston, Joanna Biggs, Joe Dunthorne, Francesca Wade, Kishani Widyaratna, Jacques Testard and Leo Robson.

Other elements of professional development are included in the degree:

Agents-in-Residence

Candidates in fiction or creative-nonfiction will meet and discuss their work in one-to-one sessions with invited literary agents, who are appointed to yearly residencies. These sessions offer writers a different overview of the development of their project: not solely from the standpoint of authorial technique, but with a view towards the positioning of their writing within a competitive and selective industry. Poetry candidates will meet and discuss their work with invited editors from internationally recognised poetry journals and presses.

Undergraduate Teaching

Through our Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) training scheme, our PhD students can apply to lead undergraduate creative writing workshops in fiction, creative non-fiction, and/or poetry, enabling them to acquire valuable HE-level teaching experience that will benefit them long after graduation.

Reading Series

Our students are required to participate in the curation of literary events at King’s. They are also responsible for curating Poetry And… , a quarterly reading in which leading poets illuminate the powerful connections between poetry and other disciplines. Students will develop skills in public engagement by chairing discussions and may also perform excerpts of their own writing.

Postgraduate Training

There is a range of induction events and training provided for students by the Centre for Doctoral Studies, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the English Department. A significant number of our students are AHRC-funded through the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) which also provides doctoral training to all students. All students take the ‘Doctoral Seminar’ in their first year. This is a series of informal, staff-led seminars on research skills in which students can share and gain feedback on their own work. We run a series of ‘Skills Lunches’, which are informal lunch meetings with staff, covering specific topics, including Upgrading, Attending Conferences, Applying for Funding and Post-Doctoral Awards, etc. Topics for these sessions are generally suggested by the students themselves, so are particularly responsive to student needs. We have an Early Career Staff Mentor who runs more formal workshops of varying kinds, particularly connected to career development and the professions.

Through our Graduate Teaching Assistantship Scheme, doctoral students can apply to teach in the department (usually in their second year of study) and are trained and supported as they do so.

• Entry requirements

Find a supervisor

Search through a list of available supervisors.

Accommodation

Discover your accommodation options and explore our residences.

Connect with a King’s Advisor

Want to know more about studying at King's? We're here to help.

Learning in London

King's is right in the heart of the capital.

• Schools & departments

Creative Writing PhD

Awards: PhD

Study modes: Full-time, Part-time

Funding opportunities

Programme website: Creative Writing

Introduction to Postgraduate Study at the University of Edinburgh

Join us online on 25 September to learn more about Scotland, the city of Edinburgh and postgraduate study at the University.

Find out more and register

Research profile

The PhD in Creative Writing offers committed and talented writers the opportunity to study Creative Writing at the highest level.

Supported by an expert supervisory team you will work independently towards the production of a substantial, publishable piece of creative writing, accompanied by a sustained exercise in critical study.

The academic staff you will be working with are all active researchers or authors, including well-published and prize-winning writers of poetry, prose, fiction and drama. They include:

• Dr Jane Alexander - Fiction
• Dr Lynda Clark - Fiction
• Dr Patrick Errington - Poetry
• Dr Miriam Gamble - Poetry
• Dr Alan Gillis - Poetry
• Nicola McCartney - Drama
• Dr Jane McKie - Poetry
• Dr Allyson Stack - Fiction
• Kim Sherwood - Fiction
• Alice Thompson - Fiction

Find out more about the programme and our team

Training and support

We encourage you to share your research and learn from the work of others through a programme of seminars and visiting speakers.

We have an in-house Writer-in-Residence, annual writing prizes, and a range of opportunities to learn from experts in the publishing industry.

We also offer access to opportunities provided by the Sottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities.

Our postgraduate journal, Forum, is a valuable conduit for research findings and provides an opportunity to gain editorial experience.

• Forum: postgraduate journal of culture and the arts

A UNESCO World City of Literature, Edinburgh is a remarkable place to study, write, publish, discuss and perform prose, poetry and drama.

Take a PhD with us and you will be based in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) in the historic centre of this world-leading festival city.

Our buildings are close to:

• National Library of Scotland (where collections include the Bute Collection of early modern English drama and the John Murray Archive)
• Edinburgh Central Library
• Scottish Poetry Library
• Scottish Storytelling Centre
• Writers’ Museum
• Traverse Theatre

We have strong links with the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which annually welcomes around 1,000 authors to our literary city.

There are lots of opportunities to write and share your work, from Forum to The Selkie, which was founded by Creative Writing students in 2018 to showcase work by people who self-identify as underrepresented.

Around the city, you’ll find library readings and bookshop launches, spoken word gigs, cabaret nights and poetry slams, including events run by celebrated publishing outlets, from Canongate and Polygon / Birlinn to Luath Press, 404 Ink, Taproot Press and Mariscat.

You will have access to the University’s many literary treasures, which include:

• William Drummond library
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon library
• Hugh MacDiarmid library
• Norman MacCaig library
• W.H. Auden collection
• Corson collection
• works by and about Sir Walter Scott
• Ramage collection of poetry pamphlets

The Centre for Research Collections also holds a truly exceptional collection of early Shakespeare quartos and other early modern printed plays. These have been put together by the 19th century Shakespearean James Halliwell-Phillipps, the correspondence of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (the focus of one of the major editorial projects in Victorian studies of the last half-century), and the extensive Laing collection of medieval and early modern manuscripts.

You will also have access to letters and papers by - and relating to - authors including:

• Christopher Isherwood
• Rudyard Kipling
• John Middleton Murry
• Walter de la Mare
• George Mackay Brown
• Compton Mackenzie

Many of the University's Special Collections are digitised and available online from our excellent Resource Centre, Computing Labs, and dedicated PhD study space in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC).

Look inside the PhD study space in LLC

Entry requirements

These entry requirements are for the 2024/25 academic year and requirements for future academic years may differ. Entry requirements for the 2025/26 academic year will be published on 1 Oct 2024.

A UK masters degree, or its international equivalent, in creative writing, normally with distinction.

We may also consider your application if you have equivalent qualifications or experience. For additional information please refer to the pre-application guidance in the 'How to apply' section.

International qualifications

Check whether your international qualifications meet our general entry requirements:

• Entry requirements by country
• English language requirements

Regardless of your nationality or country of residence, you must demonstrate a level of English language competency at a level that will enable you to succeed in your studies.

English language tests

We accept the following English language qualifications at the grades specified:

• IELTS Academic: total 7.0 with at least 6.5 in each component. We do not accept IELTS One Skill Retake to meet our English language requirements.
• TOEFL-iBT (including Home Edition): total 100 with at least 23 in each component. We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Score to meet our English language requirements.
• C1 Advanced ( CAE ) / C2 Proficiency ( CPE ): total 185 with at least 176 in each component.
• Trinity ISE : ISE III with passes in all four components.
• PTE Academic: total 70 with at least 62 in each component.

Your English language qualification must be no more than three and a half years old from the start date of the programme you are applying to study, unless you are using IELTS , TOEFL, Trinity ISE or PTE , in which case it must be no more than two years old.

Degrees taught and assessed in English

We also accept an undergraduate or postgraduate degree that has been taught and assessed in English in a majority English speaking country, as defined by UK Visas and Immigration:

• UKVI list of majority English speaking countries

We also accept a degree that has been taught and assessed in English from a university on our list of approved universities in non-majority English speaking countries (non-MESC).

• Approved universities in non-MESC

If you are not a national of a majority English speaking country, then your degree must be no more than five years old* at the beginning of your programme of study. (*Revised 05 March 2024 to extend degree validity to five years.)

Find out more about our language requirements:

• Fees and costs

Read our general information on tuition fees and studying costs:

Scholarships and funding

Featured funding.

There are a number of scholarship schemes available to eligible candidates on this PhD programme, including awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Please be advised that many scholarships have more than one application stage, and early deadlines.

• Find out more about scholarships in literatures, languages and cultures

Other funding opportunities

Search for scholarships and funding opportunities:

• Search for funding

Further information

• Phone: +44 (0)131 650 4086
• Contact: [email protected]
• School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures
• 50 George Square
• Central Campus
• Programme: Creative Writing
• School: Literatures, Languages & Cultures
• College: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

This programme is not currently accepting applications. Applications for the next intake usually open in October.

Start date: September

Awards: PhD (36 mth FT, 72 mth PT)

Application deadlines

Due to high demand, the school operates a number of selection deadlines. We will make a small number of offers to the most outstanding candidates on an ongoing basis, but hold the majority of applications until the next published selection deadline when we will offer a proportion of the places available to applicants selected through a competitive process.

Deadlines for applicants applying to study in 2024/25:

• How to apply
• Pre-application guidance

Before you formally apply for this PhD, you should look at the pre-application information and guidance on the programme website.

This will help you decide if this programme is right for you, and help us gain a clearer picture of what you hope to achieve.

The guidance details the writing samples you should send us as part of your application (either fiction or poetry, along with a shorter sample of your academic writing).

It will also give you practical advice for writing your project summary – one of the most important parts of your application.

Find out more about the general application process for postgraduate programmes:

• Skip to Main
• Welcome Message
• Literary Journals
• Join Our Listserv
• Administration and Staff
• FAQ for Prospective Graduate Students
• Fellowships and Literary Outreach
• Teaching Opportunities
• NYU GSAS Online Application
• Graduate Student Handbook
• External Literary Opportunities
• Low-Residency MFA in Paris
• Undergraduate Creative Writing Abroad
• FAQ for Undergraduate Students
• Academic Credit for Internships
• Awards & Special Events
• Fall 2023 Undergraduate Workshops
• Winter 2024
• Fall 2024 Undergraduate Workshops
• MFA Community News
• Alumni Books
• Recent Faculty Books
• NYU CWP Faculty & Alumni Events AWP 2024
• Writers in Florence
• Writers in New York

Writers in Paris

• Summer 2024 Workshops on Campus
• Classic Podcasts & Videos
• Recent Podcasts & Videos
• Spring 2017
• Spring 2018
• Spring 2019
• Spring 2020
• Virtual Events 2020
• Spring 2021 Virtual Events
• Spring 2022
• Yusef Komunyakaa: A Celebration
• Spring 2023
• Spring 2024

Writers in Paris 2024

Writers in Paris (May 24, 2024 - June 22, 2024) students choose to focus on poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction , and attend daily writing workshops, craft seminars, and literary readings and events. Writing and reading assignments are designed to encourage immersion in the city. For example, poets might visit the Louvre to write ekphrastic poems or create Parisian street sonnets by taking a 14-block walk of the St. Denis area, where François Villon lived, and generating a line of poetry per block. Fiction writers might study dialogue by listening for overheard speech at a sidewalk café or learn about description and setting by writing a story set in the neighborhood where Hemingway lived and worked.  

Recent visiting writers and editors include Kaveh Akbar ,  Charles Bock, Anne Carson, Sandra Cisneros, Lydia Davis, Mariana Enríquez, Nick Flynn, Terrance Hayes, Aleksandar Hemon, Edward Hirsch, Ann Hood, Marie Howe, Leslie Jamison, Etgar Keret, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Rachel Kushner, Nick Laird, Ben Lerner, David Lipsky, Valeria Luiselli, David Mitchell, Nadifa Mohamed, Paul Muldoon, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Claudia Rankine, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Taiye Selasi, Kamila Shamsie, Brenda Shaughnessy, Charles Simic, Tracy K. Smith, Zadie Smith, Hannah Tinti, Craig Morgan Teicher, and Ocean Vuong, among many others .

Writers in Paris is open to eligible NYU and visiting (non-NYU) undergraduates:

Priority Admissions Deadline: February 1, 2024

General Admissions Deadline: March 1, 2024

Rolling Admissions: through April 2024 (if spaces remain available!)

*Interested in receiving updates about Writers in Paris 2024? Fill out  this form . And follow the NYU Creative Writing Program on  Facebook  and  Twitter !*

2024 Faculty

Catherine Barnett (Poetry) is the author of four poetry collections,  Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (2024 Graywolf); Human Hours  (2018 Believer Book Award in Poetry and New York Times "Best Poetry of 2018" selection),  The Game of Boxes  (James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets) and  Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Beatrice Hawley Award). A Guggenheim fellow, she received a 2022 Arts and Letters Award in Literature, which honors exceptional accomplishment. Her work has been published in the  New Yorker ,  The New York Review of Books , The Nation , and  Harper’s , among many other places. She teaches in the NYU Program in Creative Writing and works as an independent editor.

Alex Dimitrov (Poetry) is the author of three books of poems,  Love and Other Poems ,  Together and by Ourselves , and  Begging for It . His poems have been published in  The New Yorker , the  New York Times ,  The Paris Review , and  Poetry.  In addition to NYU, he has taught writing at Princeton University, Columbia University, and Barnard College. Previously, he was the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets, where he edited the popular series  Poem-a-Day  and  American Poets  magazine. With Dorothea Lasky he is the co-author of  Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac.  He lives in New York.

Nathan Englander 's (Fiction) most recent novel is kaddish.com. He is also the author of the Dinner at the Center of the Earth, the collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, as well as the internationally bestselling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and the novel The Ministry of Special Cases (all published by Knopf/Vintage). He was the 2012 recipient of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for What We Talk About. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Vogue, and Esquire, among other places. His work has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and numerous editions of The Best American Short Stories, including 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories. Translated into twenty-two languages, Englander was selected as one of “20 Writers for the 21st Century” by The New Yorker, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He’s been a fellow at the Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and at The American Academy of Berlin. In 2012 Englander's translation of the New American Haggadah (edited by Jonathan Safran Foer) was published by Little Brown. He also co-translated Etgar Keret's Suddenly A Knock at the Door and Fly Already, published by FSG. His play The Twenty-Seventh Man premiered at the Public Theater in 2012, and his new play, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, winner of a 2019 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, and the 2020 Blanche and Irving Laurie Theatre Visions Fund Prize, was commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater and ran at The Old Globe in San Diego. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and lives with his family in Toronto.

Katie Kitamura ’s (Fiction) most recent novel is Intimacies . One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. It was also one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021. Her third novel,  A Separation,  was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. She is also the author of Gone To The Forest and The Longshot , both finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award.

Hari Kunzru (Creative Nonfiction) is a Clinical Professor in the Creative Writing Program. He holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University and an MA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University. He is the author of six novels, including  White Tears , a finalist for the PEN Jean Stein Award, the Kirkus Prize, the Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, One Book New York, the Prix du Livre Inter étranger, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His latest novel Red Pill was published in 2020 by Knopf. He is also the author of  The Impressionist ,  Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men  and a short story collection,  Noise . His novella  Memory Palace  was presented as an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2013. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. His short stories and essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Guardian, New York Review of Books, Granta, Bookforum, October and Frieze. He has written screenplays, radio drama, and experimental work using field recordings and voice-to-text software. He has taught at Hunter College and Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. He has been a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He is a past deputy president of English PEN, a judge for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize and has been a frequent presenter, interviewer and guest on television and radio.

Raven Leilani ’s (Fiction) debut novel Luster (2020) was awarded the Kirkus Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize, NBCC John Leonard Prize, VCU Cabell First Novel Prize, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, among others. Her work has been published in Granta , The Yale Review , McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern , Conjunctions , The Cut , and New England Review , among other publications. Leilani received her MFA from NYU and was an Axinn Foundation Writer-in-Residence . She was also selected as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. In 2022 she served as the John Grisham Fellow at the University of Mississippi and teaches creative writing at NYU.

Parul Sehgal (Creative Nonfiction) is a staff writer at  The New Yorker . She was previously a columnist and senior editor at  The New York Times Book Review  and a book critic   for  The New York Times.  Her work has appeared in  The Atlantic, Slate, Bookforum, The New Yorker, Tin House,  and  The Literary Review,  among other publications, and she was awarded the Nona Balakian Award from the National Book Critics Circle for her criticism.

Darin Strauss (Fiction) is the internationally bestselling author of the novels  Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy ,  More Than it Hurts You , the NBCC-winning memoir,  Half a Life , the comic-book series,  Olivia Twist, and most recently the acclaimed novel, The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story (Random House, 2020). A recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Library Association Award, and numerous other prizes, Strauss has written screenplays for Disney, Gary Oldman, and Julie Taymor. His work has been translated into fourteen languages and published in nineteen countries, and he is a Clinical Professor at the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Brandon Taylor (Fiction) is the author of the novels  The Late Americans  and  Real Life , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a  New York Times Book Review  Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection  Filthy Animals , a national bestseller, was awarded The Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

Deborah Landau  (Director) is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently  Skeletons , which was named one of  The New Yorker’s  “Best Books of 2023.” She is also the author of  Soft Targets  (winner of the Believer Book Award),  The Uses of the Body ,  The Last Usable Hour , and  Orchidelirium , selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her other honors include a Jacob K Javits Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.  The Uses of the Body  was featured on NPR’s  All Things Considered , and included on “Best of ″ lists by  The New Yorker, Vogue, BuzzFeed , and  O, The Oprah Magazine . A Spanish edition,  Los Usos Del Cuerpo , was published by Valparaiso Ediciones. Her work has appeared in  The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, New York Review of Books ,  The Nation ,  APR, Poetry, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times , and three volumes of  The Best American Poetry , and anthologized in  Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, Not for Mothers Only, Resistance, Rebellion, Life ,  The Best American Erotic Poems , and  Women’s Work: Modern Poets Writing in English . Landau was educated at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Brown University, where she received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. She is a Professor at NYU, where she directs the Creative Writing Program.

2024 PROGRAM INFORMATION

Program Dates  May 24, 2024 - June 22, 2024

Program Schedule Monday-Thursday

3:00pm - 5:30pm: Alternating days of writing workshops and craft seminars (each student is assigned to both a workshop and a craft seminar and has the opportunity to study closely with two accomplished faculty members)

6:00pm - 8:00pm: Daily readings & talks by acclaimed guest writers and editors (see a sample readings & events calendar  here ) 8 Points of Undergraduate Credit Open to eligible NYU and Non-NYU Students

CONTACT INFORMATION

For questions about the application process, eligibility, costs, financial assistance and general study abroad:

NYU Summer Study Abroad Phone: 212-998-4433 For academic questions: NYU Creative Writing Program Phone: 212-998-8816 Email: [email protected]

Writers in Paris (Past Years) Gallery

NOTE TO NYU STUDENTS :

The eight credits earned by this intensive program constitutes half of our Minor in Creative Writing . Participation in two summer intensives (Writers in Paris, Writers in Florence, Writers in New York) fulfills the entire minor.

Creative Writing

PhD, MPhil Creative Writing

A postgraduate research qualification in Creative Writing consists of an original body of work - normally a novel, or a collection of poetry/short stories - with an accompanying critical element. The critical element will place the creative work in an informed and theorised analytical context.

The total assessed word count will be 25,000 words for the MPhil and 80,000 words for the PhD (or equivalent for poetry). The proportion of the creative to the critical work will be agreed by the supervisory team, but in total will usually consist of around 65-70% of creative text and 30-35% of critical text.

All postgraduate research students are supervised by two academics, one of whom will normally be a creative writing academic and the other from English Literature or a related discipline relevant to the creative and critical work. As with the traditional research degrees, the final submission will be expected to make 'a substantial and original contribution to knowledge'. For Creative Writing, this means a body of work that contributes in individual, significant and demonstrable ways to current discourses in literature.

The relation to such discourses will be articulated in the creative work and conceptualised and explored in the critical element; both are intended to address the same research questions, generating dynamic interplay between creative and critical practice.

Programme structure

MPhil: a standalone, one-year (full-time) research degree. Students will undertake their own research or creative project, concluding with the submission of a 25,000-word dissertation/project (normally 17,000-18,000 words of creative writing and 7,000-8,000 of critical writing). Students may have the option to audit units from our taught master's programmes if they are relevant to their research.

PhD: a research project undertaken across four years (full-time, minimum period of study three years), culminating in an 80,000-word thesis/project (normally 50,000 words of creative work - often an extract from a longer project - and 30,000 words of a critical investigation). As well as having the option to audit taught units where appropriate, there may be the potential for PhD students to teach units themselves from their second year of study onwards.

The MPhil and PhD can be studied via distance learning.

World-leading research

The University of Bristol is ranked fifth for research in the UK ( Times Higher Education ).

94% of our research assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent.

Entry requirements

MPhil: An upper second-class degree or international equivalent. Please note, acceptance will also depend on evidence of your readiness to pursue a research degree and previous study or achievement in Creative Writing.

PhD: A master's qualification, or be working towards a master's qualification, or international equivalent. Applicants without a master's qualification may be considered on an exceptional basis, provided they hold a first-class undergraduate degree (or international equivalent). Applicants with a non-traditional background may be considered provided they can demonstrate substantial equivalent and relevant experience that has prepared them to undertake their proposed course of study. Acceptance will also depend on previous study or achievement in Creative Writing.

See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.

Read the programme admissions statement for important information on entry requirements, the application process and supporting documents required.

If English is not your first language, you will need to reach the requirements outlined in our  profile level A.

Further information about  English language requirements and profile levels .

Fees and funding

Fees are subject to an annual review. For programmes that last longer than one year, please budget for up to an 8% increase in fees each year.

More about tuition fees, living costs and financial support .

Alumni discount

University of Bristol students and graduates can benefit from a 25% reduction in tuition fees for postgraduate study.  Check your eligibility for an alumni discount.

Funding for 2024/25

The University of Bristol is part of the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW DTP), which will be offering studentships for September 2024.

For information on other funding opportunities, including University-funded studentships, please see the Faculty of Arts funding pages .

Further information on funding for prospective UK and international postgraduate students.

Career prospects

People who are awarded a Creative Writing PhD have gone on to a variety of careers. Many are published writers who also teach, either in the academy or in community settings. The intensive training in examining texts is transferable to roles in publishing, broadcasting and media. Others organise literary and other cultural events or work in research. Like many creative people, graduates of this type of degree often have portfolio careers, where they work between several roles and their writing is one of several simultaneous ways in which they are employed.

Meet our supervisors

The following list shows potential supervisors for this programme. Visit their profiles for details of their research and expertise.

Research groups

• Creative Writing and Critical Practice
• Faculty of Arts Creative Writing Research Cluster
• Brigstow Institute
• Centre for Material Texts

How to apply

Apply via our online application system. For further information, please see the guidance for how to apply on our webpages.

January 2024 start: 1 December 2023 September 2024 start: 1 August 2024 January 2025 start: 1 December 2024

The deadlines for funding applications fall well in advance of these dates. Preliminary contact with staff from the department is welcome at any time of the year. We strongly encourage prospective applicants to contact us early, before submitting an application.

Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Research Admissions

Faculty of Arts

School of Humanities

Department of English

Explore more

Find out about the bristol doctoral college.

• Request Info

Faculty & Staff

• Job Seekers
• Scholarships & Aid
• Student Life

Sharon Lubkemann Allen (Princeton University) Professor of Comparative Literature & Director of Graduate Studies

Robert Baker Composition Coordinator

Ralph Black (New York University) Professor Emeritus

Miriam Elizabeth Burstein (University Of Chicago) Professor and Chair

Austin Busch (Indiana University-Bloomington) Professor (English), Associate Director of the Writers Forum, and Director of the Honors College

Sarah M. Cedeño, MFA (SUNY College At Brockport) Lecturer

Michael S Chojnowski (SUNY At Fredonia) Lecturer

Denise M. Craft (SUNY College At Brockport) Lecturer

Stephen Fellner (University Of Utah) Professor

T. Gregory Garvey (University Of Wisconsin-Madison) Professor

Jennifer Haytock (University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill) Professor (English), Chancellor’s Award Recipient for Scholarship

Janie Hinds (University Of Tulsa) Professor Emerita (English), Director (Liberal Studies), Chancellor Award Recipient for Faculty Service

Stefan Jurasinski (Indiana University-Bloomington) Professor

Alissa G. Karl (University Of Washington-Seattle Campus) Associate Professor

Alicia L. Kerfoot (McMaster University) Associate Professor

Milo Obourn (New York University) Professor and Chair (Women & Gender Studies), Professor (English), Committee Member (President’s Council on Diversity & Inclusion)

Jules Oyer (SUNY College At Brockport) Lecturer (English), Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching (2024), Writing Tutor (Academic Success Center)

Anne Panning (University Of Hawaii At Manoa) Professor + Co-Director, Writers Forum

Sandra Parker (University Of Southern California) Lecturer

Kimberly Price (Genesee Community College) Administrative Assistant 1

Kristen Proehl (College Of William And Mary) Associate Professor (English), Honors Fellow

Sidney Rosenzweig (University Of Rochester) Lecturer

Michael D Slater (Northwestern University) Associate Professor Dir of Integrative and Liberal Studies

Carter Soles (University Of Oregon) Associate Professor

James Whorton (University Of Southern Mississippi) Professor and Co-Director of the Writers Forum

Phil Young (University Of South Alabama) Lecturer

• Academic Catalogs
• English (MA)

Master of Arts in English

Description.

The MA in English, Creative Writing and Literature tracks, introduces graduate students to advanced critical and creative study in the art of language. The program can be completed entirely (100%) online through a variety of synchronous and asynchronous courses, or through a combination of online, hybrid, and in person courses. Literary seminars and writing workshops provide intentionally framed forums for sustained and comparative analysis of literary texts, techniques, and traditions from diverse cultural contexts, through varied critical and theoretical lenses, and in dialogue with current critical scholarship. The program encourages students to work closely with faculty mentors and culminates for all creative writers and, optionally, for literature track students in a substantial (and potentially publishable) independent project focusing on an area of the student’s interest and emerging expertise. The MA in English Literature can be successfully completed with coursework. For students intending to pursue a PhD or wanting to write a thesis, there is the opportunity to do so under the guidance of faculty advisors and readers. Graduate students additionally have the opportunity to read, hear, and talk craft with nationally and internationally recognized authors through Brockport’s visiting writers series, The Writers Forum, established in 1968 and including a remarkable repository of interviews.

For accepted students exhibiting superior promise, the department has a limited number of assistantships available that provide a stipend and a tuition scholarship for up to nine graduate credits per semester. They are awarded on a competitive basis with an April 15 application deadline. Further information on assistantships may be obtained from The Center for Graduate Studies.

Admission to the Program

Applicants for matriculation in the Master of Arts in English program must submit a completed application. Application materials are available online . The application includes the following:

• A statement of interest/intent.
• Official transcripts of all undergraduate and prior graduate work.
• Two letters of recommendation from persons in a position to assess the potential for significant academic achievement.
• Applicants for the Creative Writing track must submit a sample of their poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction of no more than 20 pages in length. Applicants for the Literature track must submit a nonfiction writing sample of no more than 8-10 pages in length.

Normally, an undergraduate major in English with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 “B” is required. For further information, contact the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English.

Program Requirements

Students must meet the University’s standards for graduate study .

Students choose one of two tracks for the Master of Arts in English: Literature or Creative Writing. Each is a 36-credit program. Each track includes an introductory seminar on advanced discourse in the discipline. While the Creative Writing track includes a series of writing workshops, which students in the Literature track may take as electives, both tracks require a range of literature courses.

Note: no course may meet more than one requirement.

Literature Track (36 credits)

• Literature: Critical Discourses and Dialogues in the Discipline (3 credits)
• Two Seminars in Literary Genres and Techniques i (6 credits)
• Two Seminars in Critical Perspectives on Literary Traditions ii (6 credits)
• Two Seminars in Comparative Literature, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, or Literary Theory iii (6 credits)
• Three Electives in literature, film, or creative writing (9 credits*)
• One additional Literature seminar or
• ENG 697 Advanced Project in Literature**
• *Up to 3 graduate credits may be taken outside the English department with approval of department.

**Any graduate student may complete the MA in English Literature entirely through coursework. Literature track students interested in pursuing a PhD and/or completing an advanced scholarly project for prospective publication may elect to work with a faculty mentor to substantially revise an essay written for a literature seminar. Application for the advanced project requires a proposal, including an abstract and annotated bibliography developed in consultation with the proposed mentor. The advanced project is typically an article-length study (30-40 pages), expertly researched and sufficiently complex, that demonstrates mastery of relevant primary and secondary literature as well as an ability to write in accordance with professional disciplinary standards. The outcome of ENG 697 will be a potentially publishable paper that represents a significant contribution to the discipline, approved by a director, a second reader, and the Graduate Committee. ENG 697 is taken as a directed study with the faculty mentor, subject to approval by the Director of Graduate Studies, in the candidate’s final semester.

Creative Writing Track (36 credits)

• ENG 691 Prose Workshop
• ENG 692 Poetry Workshop
• ENG 603 Seminar in Creative Writing
• ENG 595 Writer’s Craft
• Literature Electives (9 credits)
• English or Film Electives (6 credits) (creative writing, film, or literature)
• ENG 698 Creative Thesis

The track culminates in a creative thesis of 50-60 pages – typically a collection of poems or short prose pieces accompanied by a critical introduction. The thesis should include the best of the work that has come through the workshops, revised, and brought to a finished state. A thesis proposal must be approved by a director who has agreed to work with the student, and by two readers selected in consultation with the director. The thesis is then written under the guidance of the director, approved by the readers, and recommended to the Graduate Committee.

   i Seminars in Literary Genres and Techniques

These close reading courses focus on a particular genre, intersecting genres, and/or literary techniques . Without purporting to be surveys of literary form or genres, they offer students the opportunity to do lots of close reading attentive to formal elements of the texts. This does not preclude investigations informed by other interests (for instance, intercultural/comparative literary inquiry, historical surveys of a genre, culturally coherent investigations, etc.). While these courses include critical writing assignments through which students’ capacity for close reading attentive to literary form and technique could be assessed (SLO1) , they might engage with literary form and technique in more creative ways also. They may but need not include the conventional 12-20 pp. graduate essay engaged with current scholarship.

   ii Seminars in Critical Perspectives on Literary Traditions

These seminars include analysis of literary texts within a particular tradition (with tradition defined broadly in terms of a cultural or historical context, literary form, thematic coherence, etc.). While constituting a survey of sorts of the tradition, they also introduce critical/theoretical perspectives on that tradition . These seminars engage literary canons and criticism with an intentional attentiveness to concerns of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Seminars may include a variety of writing and other assignments, though they should require an extended analytical essay to be assessed as a “compelling, critically informed argument regarding literary texts and traditions in dialogue with current scholarly discourse” and “practice standards and techniques of advanced academic research and writing” (SLO2) .

   iii Seminars in Comparative Literature, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, or Literary Theory

These seminars are intercultural, interdisciplinary, and/or theoretical in scope . They require students to examine texts in terms of comparative contexts, cultural literacies, and/or theoretical frameworks. These courses might be focused on intersections of literature and film, literature and art, literary and other social discourses. While they should include analytical writing engaged with relevant critical scholarship, they might also include other comparative/interdisciplinary modes of inquiry and expression, including an assignment that might demonstrate students’ capacity to “effectively engage literary texts within comparative intercultural and/or interdisciplinary contexts” and “articulate clearly their own critical perspectives in literary inquiry” (SLO3) .

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the program, all students will be able to:

• Analyze and articulate correlations between form and meaning in literary texts, through close reading attentive to literary genres and techniques.

Literature Track students will be able to:

• Create historically, culturally, and critically informed arguments regarding literary texts and traditions in dialogue with current scholarly discourse, demonstrating standards and techniques of advanced academic research and writing.
• Construct insightful projects that consider literary texts within intercultural, theoretical, and/or interdisciplinary contexts.

Creative Writing Track students will be able to:

• Create original texts engaging forms and techniques in varied genres of poetry and prose, employing professional standards in constructive critical commentary on peer writing and in revising their own work.
• Articulate the place of their own work in contemporary literary practices