The MA Creative Writing is an intensive course which treats your ambition as a writer seriously. Our students come from a range of backgrounds including the arts, teaching, law, journalism, history and writing. The course is for anyone with an interest in or ambition towards writing. Some of our most successful students include best-selling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka, T.S. Eliot short-listed poet Frances Leviston and Radio 4 and BBC TV script writer Sharon Oakes. By enhancing your skills in writing, literary revision and reflection, you are preparing for a number of roles where knowledge of writing and the processes of writing are important such as • writers of fiction, poetry, script, children's writing and memoir • editing anthologies and journals online and in print • teaching creative writing at all levels including schools community groups adult education FE, HE and professional training • going on to further research at PhD and postdoctoral level at Hallam and elsewhere • writing for online forums writing blogs • taking up writers in residence posts • theatre in education • copyediting, proofreading, ghost-writing • organising literary festivals and events • scripting advertisements • reviewing online and in print