About Creative Writing, MA - at Bath Spa University

You'll learn to:

• Plan a manuscript (a novel, collection of short stories, collection of poems or book of literary non-fiction) and complete it, or a substantial part of it, brought to publishable quality or as near as possible.
• Understand literary form, style and genre, as relevant to your chosen form of writing.
• Acquire a variety of relevant writing techniques, and research techniques to support writing, and adapt them to your particular creative project.
• Understand and respond creatively to questions arising from the subject-matter, themes, genres, traditions and other literary contexts with which your chosen manuscript is engaged.
• Receive and give precise and sensitive critical feedback in workshop groups and one-to-one tutorials.
• Respond creatively to feedback provided by tutors and other students, adapting that feedback to your particular vision of your book.
• Understand choices and opportunities relevant to your chosen manuscript, including questions of how to place your work, and the role of agents, publishers and editors.

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