Master of Arts - English and Writing for Creative Industries

The English and Writing for Creative Industries MA has new media and technologies at its heart, considering them from a critical perspective while also encouraging creativity in new and emerging media and forms such as video games, comics, manga and streaming. The professional development module, 'Creative Futures and Social Change' focuses directly on students' employability and impact in a range of industries and creative sectors.

The course aims to develop students' craft of critical and creative writing across a range of disciplines and genres, with a particular emphasis on responses to the climate crisis, genre-based narratives, screenwriting, role-play and video games writing, while generating coursework outputs in industry-ready formats. Students will form writers’ groups which work collaboratively to provide support and peer feedback on writing drafts in both the classroom and online via their writers’ blogs, forging collaborative skills that are essential to working in the media and games industries.