MA Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University

• Work under the guidance of internationally acclaimed writers of fiction and poetry.
• Graduate with a coherent and extensive body of creative work.
• Hone your skills with a focus on writing, reinforced with sound criticism and editing.
• Acquire the discipline and market awareness needed to create publishable work.
• Join numerous acclaimed authors as an alumnus of a longstanding, well-regarded course.

This course takes your work, and your ambition, seriously. You'll focus on your own writing, under the guidance of acclaimed authors of fiction and poetry. You'll leave with a body of work you can be proud of.

Networking opportunities

With frequent guest speakers, masterclasses and a wide involvement with the local and national literary industry, the course provides ample networking opportunities.

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• writing fiction, poetry, children's writing and memoir
• editing
• teaching
• further research
• blog and online writing
• copyediting, proofreading and ghost-writing
• reviewing and criticism
• copywriting

Some of our most successful students include best-selling author ofA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka, T.S. Eliot short-listed poet Frances Leviston and Radio 4 and BBC TV script writer Sharon Oakes.