Course summary
Our PhD Creative Writing programme gives you the opportunity to work on a significant piece of creative writing while developing your research skills. You will benefit from creative supervision by an experienced poet or fiction writer and draw on the range of expertise within the University to find a supervisor for your critical element. There are two elements to the programme. The first is a creative element that can be prose fiction, a novel or a collection of short stories of up to 100,000 words. It can also be a collection of poetry. The PhD also has a critical element/commentary of roughly 30,000 to 50,000 words.
Entry requirements
A Bachelors (Honours) degree at 2:1 level or above (or its international equivalent) in a related subject; an a UK Master's degree with an overall Distinction classification (or its international equivalent) in a related subject. Any strong relevant professional experience will be considered on a case by case basis.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Fees for entry in 2023 have not yet been set.
Provider information
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL