MLitt/PGDip Writing Practice & Study

Our Creative Writing Programme at the University of Dundee is like no other. Small, bespoke, intimate… We offer you an experience that gets you writing from week one and has you feeling like a “real” writer from the very start of your Course.

Planned to be delivered in a unique combination of long, intensive and highly practical Workshops, interactive “Wordcraft” seminars and individual tutorials, our MLitt in Writing Practice and Study brings you out of your own private writing space and into a community where reading and writing and imaginative thinking are at the very centre of our studies and lives.

Some of you will be taking the module “EN52025” only, or continuing your degree on a Module-by-Module basis, some of you will be committed to the
full MLitt programme. Some will be studying part–time, others the full one-year programme…. But whatever the option, your writing during the course of your
programme will be productive, intellectually stimulating and highly creative.

What’s more, during your time with us, you will have access to and play a role in our richly engaged literary life here in Dundee – taking part in our salons, poetry sessions, meeting writers and publishers and reading your own work in our special “LiveWire” events and at our Literary Festival.

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Writing Practice & Study leaflet

In addition, we have planned special MasterClasses with top-name authors and visits to sites of special interest for the creative student – in the past these have included the D-Arcy Thomson Museum and Scottish Poetry Library.

In other words, the programme does not just – like so many others – simply deliver teaching. Instead we encourage you, from the start, to discover and exploit your own creativity, develop your reading and studying skills, and form writing friendships and contacts that will take you far. So that, in the end, your studies will have formed a sound base for your ongoing writing practice and planning and will set you up in your cultural and imaginative life to come.

However you want to use your time with us, we trust that it will be intellectually stimulating, creatively rewarding and…A lot of fun!