It has featured on US higher education programmes for more than a century, but British universities took longer to be convinced by creative writing. The notion that decent writing can't actually be ...

It might seem that putting words to paper is hard, but for those interested in creative writing classes, it might be more difficult to get into a class. Many creative writing courses are known for ...

When the University of East Anglia offered the first British MA in creative writing almost 35 years ago, it caused academic scandal. According to Malcolm Bradbury, the writer who helped set it up, ...

There are lots of advantages to taking a single course. Whether you want to grow in your current career, prepare yourself for a new one or get one step closer to a college degree, an individual course ...

OF THE SIX novels shortlisted for the Booker prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award, four are debuts, six are by women and four are by writers of colour. Many readers and critics praised the ...

Designed for complete novices to the world of creative writing, Creative Writing Ink’s email-driven beginner’s course is perfect for making a start on your budding writing routine, or for lapsed ...

The author Hanif Kureishi has rubbished creative writing courses as a “waste of time”, saying that the vast majority of students taking them – including many of his own pupils – are “talentless”.

English majors with a concentration in creative writing must satisfy the requirements for the major, including an introductory-level and an advanced-level creative writing course in a single genre ...

Will Self has declared literature to be “morphing into a giant quilting exercise”, suggesting that no current creative writing graduates will make a living from literary fiction. The author criticised ...