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University of East Anglia UEA: Creative Writing Crime Fiction
| Institution | University of East Anglia UEA View institution profile |
|---|---|
| Department | School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| Web | https://www.uea.ac.uk |
| admissions@uea.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | 01603 591515 |
| Study type | Taught |
MA
Summary
**Overview**
Crime fiction is one of the world’s most popular literary genres for a reason. It's dynamic, engaging, inclusive, and imaginative. Its’s also adaptable, working from page to screen, and easily translatable, because it’s accessible and compelling. These are dramatic life-and-death stories. Learn the craft of this exciting genre in our MA Creative Writing Crime Fiction, part of UEA’s world-renowned Creative Writing programme.
You’ll write a novel under the close guidance of award-winning crime writers and experienced creative writing tutors. All without relocating. Our part time MA Crime Fiction is taught online, through flexible and specially designed modules that can work around your schedule. The online elements are supplemented with three short, high-intensity residential periods a year.
The course, uniquely, guides you through the process of planning and writing a full-length work of crime fiction. You'll be immersed in the key critical and practical elements of the genre. How do you shape a fast-moving narrative and create memorable characters? Where and when do you set your story? You'll be introduced to the professional writing landscape, meeting agents and publishers (including Little, Brown, the sponsors of the annual Crime MA Little, Brown prize), ready to embark upon the next stage of your writing career.
The MA Crime Fiction builds on our world-leading expertise, presenting you with the unique opportunity to further your knowledge and skills within the highly dynamic crime genre. You'll be inspired by visiting writers, who'll share insights about their practice. These have included Ian Rankin, Dreda Say Mitchell, Louise Doughty, Denise Mina, and Lee Child – whose archive UEA holds at the British Archive for Contemporary Writing. At Noirwich, our annual festival of crime writing, you’ll hear from some of the most innovative and important crime writers today, such as Attica Locke, Megan Abbott, Mick Heron, Val McDermid.
By the end of this part-time low-residency MA, you’ll have a draft of a full-length work, a stronger self-awareness as a writer and critic, and a greatly increased chance of publication. You’ll become fully conversant with all aspects of being a professional writer. Our graduates—including award winners Harriet Tyce, Trevor Wood and Femi Kayode—have gone straight from the MA Crime Fiction onto the bestseller lists. Our alumni also go on to work in teaching, publishing, journalism, communications, the media, and the arts.
**Disclaimer**
Course details are subject to change. You should always confirm the details on the provider's website: **www.uea.ac.uk**
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | Degree classification: 2:2 or equivalent. Degree sbject: Any subject area. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must also submit a sample of their work (up to 5,000 words - this does not have to be crime writing focused, but must be prose fiction). |
| Location | University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ |
Fees
| Channel Islands | 11985 GBP for Whole course |
|---|---|
| England | 11985 GBP for Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | 11985 GBP for Whole course |
| Scotland | 11985 GBP for Whole course |
| Wales | 11985 GBP for Whole course |
Summary
**Overview**
Imagine writing an innovative full-length novel under the guidance of award-winning crime writers and experienced creative writing tutors. All without relocating or giving up work.
UEA’s part-time, low-residency MA Creative Writing Crime Fiction gives you unique flexibility with a distance-learning course supported by residencies. You’ll take the course via a specially designed, highly inclusive online platform, with three 2-day residential periods per year, circumstances permitting.
Our residencies have involved visits from literary agents and editors as well as professional writers such as Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Arne Dahl, Denise Mina, Dreda Say Mitchell, Cath Staincliffe, and Yrsa Siguroardottir.
By the end of the course, you’ll have a draft of a full-length work, a stronger self-awareness as a writer and critic, and a greatly increased chance of publication.
**About This Course**
The Creative Writing programme at UEA was the first of its kind in the UK and is distinguished by the unrivalled success of its alumni, who include the 2017 Nobel Laureate Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, and his fellow Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Anne Enright. We introduced the first MA in 1970, the first PhD in 1987, and students now join us from all over the world.
The MA Crime Fiction builds on our world-leading expertise, presenting you with the unique opportunity to further your knowledge and skills within the highly dynamic crime genre. We have now embedded critical crime fiction and non-fiction modules across most levels of taught study within the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, and doctoral research and supervision in the area is also growing at UEA. Plus, we’re a founding partner of Norwich’s annual crime writing festival, Noirwich, which takes place in September, coinciding with the September residential period.
The principal aim of the course is to help you develop a deeper understanding of the craft and context of producing exceptional crime writing and have an enhanced critical awareness. By the end of the course, you’ll have become more adept and more self-aware in your own practice, and you will have completed a draft of a full-length novel.
You’ll become fully conversant with all aspects of being a professional writer, and – like all UEA creative writing students – will enjoy greatly enhanced prospects of publication on graduation. Our course builds on our extensive connections with publishers and agents.
**Disclaimer**
Course details are subject to change. You should always confirm the details on the provider's website: **www.uea.ac.uk**
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | Degree classification: 2:2 or equivalent. Degree sbject: Any subject area. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must also submit a sample of their work (up to 5,000 words - this does not have to be crime writing focused, but must be prose fiction). |
| Location | University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ |
Fees
| Channel Islands | 11200 GBP for Whole course |
|---|---|
| England | 11200 GBP for Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | 11200 GBP for Whole course |
| Scotland | 11200 GBP for Whole course |
| Wales | 11200 GBP for Whole course |
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