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Qualification
MA - Master of Arts
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Location
Edinburgh Napier University
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Study mode
Part time
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Start date
08-SEP-25
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Duration
2 Years
Course summary
Overview
This course is ideal for writers of commercial genre fiction who are looking to take their craft to the next level.
If you already have talent and ideas, this online programme is designed to add the expertise you need to approach your chosen market with confidence, originality and skill.
During your studies you will focus on popular fiction genres enabling you to professionalise your practice as a writer be it science fiction, fantasy, romance, crime, horror and historical fiction - you choose which to put at the heart of your learning journey.
In addition, our team of award-winning and bestselling authors will give you regular one-to-one creative and editorial mentoring sessions to support your development.
This MA is designed to be studied part-time over five trimesters. In the first, second and third trimester, you will study two modules each trimester. In the fourth and fifth trimester, you will undertake a single module: Major Project. This programme has a start date in January every year.
During the first trimester, the two modules you take (Creating Narrative, and Narrative Position) each have one live weekly online seminar, which will be timetabled for a time which aims to suit the whole cohort depending on geographical locations. There is also one module with a live weekly seminar in the second trimester (Writing Genre Fiction) and third trimester (Authorship), again timetabled for a mutually suitable time. For other modules (Creative Development, Editorial Development and Major Project), you will have occasional live events again the time of these will aim to suit the geographical locations of the cohort. Mutually convenient times for one-to-one meetings with your programme tutor will be arranged in advance.
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