This course allows you to focus on one of two areas: Literary Novels or Crime Thriller Novels. This is a focused, high-intensity course, so we never take more than 14 students each year (14 for Literary and 14 for Crime Thriller), therefore you must apply for a place for Literary Novels or for Crime Thriller Novels at the outset. At the core of City's unique Novels programme is the experience of established writers. Everyone who teaches on this MA course is a working, published novelist. Find out more about the prize-winning writers who are currently teaching on this course. Their experience underpins all the teaching. They understand the industry and they know what it takes to get published. We take students of any age and from anywhere in the world. All you need is a desire to write exciting words and spend two years working on a novel. This is the only Creative Writing MA in the UK or USA which helps you write a whole novel. And it works: one in six of our students currently goes on to sell their novel and The Guardian named this programme as one of the top three in the country. The single-minded focus of this programme is that you to finish a novel and use City’s well-established industry links to kick-start your career as a published novelist. At the end of this course, you will have the manuscript of your novel and we will do everything we can to assist you to find an agent to represent you who will then work to find a publisher for it. As a Central London university, close to Bloomsbury and the heart of London's publishing industry, we are uniquely placed. During this course students will also achieve PgCert and PgDip awards.