Location:

Colchester, United Kingdom

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Doctorate

Specialty:

English

Program Overview

Program Description:

Our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies offers supervision for PhD Creative Writing in all fields of staff research interest within this area. Creative writing is an area of particular growth for us and all genres are catered for, with published novelists, poets, and playwrights on our teaching staff and great programme of visiting writers to stimulate your imagination: Derek Walcott, Tom Raworth, Richard Beard, Earl Lovelace, and Madeleine Bunting have all read on our Colchester Campus recently. A number of our graduates have gone on to undertake successful careers as writers. Other past students are now established as scholars, university lecturers, teachers, publishers, publishers’ editors, journalists, arts administrators, theatre artistic directors, drama advisers, and translators.

Additional Program Information

Accreditation:

Postgraduate study qualification from the University of Essex.

Requirements:

A good Honours degree or Masters, or equivalent, in a relevant subject area.

International Requirements:

IELTS 7.0 or equivalent.