Creative Writing Manchester Metropolitan University

Overview

In the Creative Writing programme from Manchester Metropolitan University, you will also take an additional module introducing you to professionals from the publishing, literary and arts industries, which may include literary agents, publishers, broadcasters, producers, directors and arts practitioners, plus a module where you will be coached through the development and completion of a full-length book or script under the sustained guidance of one of our distinguished, practising writers. 

A career as unique as you

More than 100 of our students and graduates have embarked upon publishing careers, launching first books, with others achieving publication in journals and magazines, winning writing awards and prizes, setting up small presses and anthologies, and seeing their work go into production and performance. Our alumni include winners of the Costa First Novel Award, Forward Poetry Prize and Yale Windham-Campell Prize, and a long-listing for the Man Booker Prize.