MA/PgDip/PgCert Writing
Full-time, Part-time
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The Adsetts Centre, which houses our library at City Campus
The MA Writing is a professionally focused course which treats your ambition as a writer seriously.
You complete a novel, script or collection of poems or stories as the submission for your MA. Our dedicated team of professional writers supervise you through to the completion of your work.
This course appeals to graduates in the arts and to teachers with a professional interest in writing. It is also suited to practising writers who need contact with their peers.
Some of our most successful students include best selling author of A 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.
Our teaching of English was rated excellent in the first round of teaching quality assessments by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
We also run an MA English Studies degree.
Funding
UK and EU students may be able to apply for funding to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). These awards are based on merit so careful preparation of your application is essential.
If you hope to be considered for AHRC funding, you must contact us as early as possible in the academic year, certainly before the end of December. This is due to restrictions on the number of applications that the University may put forward to the scheme.
Up-to-date details of the AHRC Professional and Vocational Awards scheme can be found at www.ahrc.ac.uk
Mentoring scheme
We offer a mentoring scheme for our MA Writing graduates with a substantial publication or production to their name, such as a novel or a poetry collection.
This is to help writing alumni who would like feedback and advice on their next work in progress. The agreement involves tutor feedback via a fixed number of tutorial and reading hours, at a very competitive rate. For further details, please contact Steven Earnshaw, our head of English.
Visit our English subject pages to find out more about our courses, staff, research, events and master classes.
We offer up to 12 master classes every semester on Wednesday evenings. This is where writers, agents, publishers and directors give you insights to their worlds.
Attendance
Full-time – one year to complete taught seminar courses, two years to full MA
Part-time – typically two years, up to five years for writing up
Seminars are held on Wednesday afternoons.
Admissions office
For further information please contact the Faculty of Development and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Sheffield S1 1WB, phone 0114 225 5555, fax 0114 225 5514, e-mail fdsenquiries@shu.ac.uk
For an application form see www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
International students – see www.shu.ac.uk/international
Fees
For academic year 2009/10
Home and EU students
Full-time – typically £3,600
Part-time – typically £1,200 a stage for PgCert, PgDip and MA stages
International students
Full-time – typically £9,000
Part-time – typically £3,000 a stage for PgCert, PgDip and MA stages
For academic year 2010/11
Home and EU students next year
Full-time – typically £3,900
Part-time – typically £1,300 a stage for PgCert, PgDip and MA stages
International students
Full-time – typically £9,720
Part-time – typically £3,240 a stage for PgCert, PgDip and MA stages
Assessment
• submission of written work to specified word lengths more>>
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