PhD Program
Poetry: Lucy English, Tim Liardet, John Strachan, Gerard Woodward
Fiction: Gavin James Bower, Celia Brayfield, Alexia Casale, Lucy Cuthew, Lucy English, Nathan Filer, Aminatta Forna, Philip Hensher, Steve Hollyman, Claire Kendal, Kate Pullinger, Samantha Stewart, Gerard Woodward
Nonfiction: Eleanor Barraclough, Celia Brayfield, Richard Kerridge
Scriptwriting: Gavin James Bower, Simon Longman
There is no program funding available.
The PhD in Creative Writing Programme provides outstanding writers with intensive support to write a book-length manuscript (e.g. novel, short story collection, poetry collection, playscript, narrative nonfiction, digital writing) accompanied by a piece of contextualizing research (20,000 words).
The majority of students complete the program in two to four years.
There is also a distance-learning low-residency stream of the program available for international applicants. The application deadline for the low residency program is May 31.
Tanvir Bush, Jonathan Carr, Lucy Christopher, Anna Dempsey, Janina Diller, Nathan Filer, Kylie Fitzpatrick, Aminatta Forna, Emma Geen, Julia Green, Melanie Golding, Carla Gracia Mercadé, Kate Harding, Jules Hardy, Samantha Harvey, Beatrice Hitchman, Louise Johncox, Nicole Mary Kelby, Femi Kayode, Nikita Lalwani, Daisy McNally, Jennifer Militello, Ellene Glenn Moore, Stephen Moss, Jo Nadin, Barbara Nicolosi, John O’Donoghue, Paul Pickering, Kristien Potgieter, Joanne Rush, Andrea Scarpino, Miranda Schmidt, Robert Sherman, Susan Smith Daniels, Ben Teasdale, Mimi Thebo, Jack Wolf, Gerard Woodward