University of East Anglia

MA Program

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Program Established: 
1970
Location: 
Norwich, England
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
Residency: 
Full
Duration: 
1 Year
Incoming Class Size: 
45-60
Application Deadline: 
July 31, 2025
Application Fee: 
$0
Contact E-mail: 
Contact Name: 
Dr. Philip Langeskov
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Tiffany Atkinson, Holly Corfield Carr

Fiction: Trezza Azzopardi, Stephanie Bishop, Giles Foden, Jean McNeil, Tessa McWatt, Henry Sutton, Naomi Wood

Nonfiction: Claire Hynes, Ian Thomson

Crime Fiction: Nathan Ashman, Tom Benn, Henry Sutton

Scriptwriting: Sian Evans, James McDermott, Ben Musgrave, Steve Waters

Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers full and partial funding. Scholarships range from a £1,000 fee waiver to the Booker Foundation Scholarship, which covers fees and living expenses to a value of £25,000. Read more about Postgraduate Creative Writing Scholarship opportunities here.

Affiliated Publications/Publishers: 

The Egg Box imprint of the UEA Publishing Project publishes an annual anthology in five separate volumes (Prose Fiction, Poetry, Scriptwriting, Nonfiction, Crime Writing) of graduate work.

Other Features: 

The program offers a two-year, part-time online course in crime fiction as well as courses in scriptwriting and biography.

Recent visiting professors and fellows to the program include: Raymond Antrobus, Margaret Atwood, Vahni Capeldeo, Inua Ellams, Caryl Phillips, Ian Rankin, Ali Smith, and Preti Taneja.

UEA’s international literary festival, UEA Live, a rolling program of writer events, has been running since 1992 and has regularly featured writers such as Junot Díaz, Richard Ford, Joseph Heller, Kazuo Ishiguro, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley, Salman Rushdie, George Saunders, William Styron, and Kurt Vonnegut.

Graduates: 

Graduates of the University of East Anglia’s graduate creative writing program include John Boyne, Tracy Chevalier, Deborah Davis, Anne Enright, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan. Details can be found on the UEA website.

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