Overview

A cross-cultural, interdisciplinary programme, you spend your first term at our Canterbury campus with full access to its excellent academic and recreational facilities. You also visit Paris, where you meet our Paris staff and are taken on a tour of the city. We offer advice and support to help you relocate.

In the spring term, you then relocate to the Paris School of Arts and Culture where you study at the Columbia Global Center, in a historic corner of Montparnasse.

In your final term, you complete your MA by writing a portfolio of creative work defined in collaboration with your academic supervisors.

Why study Creative Writing at Kent:

• A wide range of expertise: Teaching is delivered by practising, award-winning writers with a wide range of experience. We bring expertise in the industry to our teaching and research.
• Make your voice heard: Be at the forefront of debate in our lively, confident, and engaged research community.
• Join a new generation of critical thinkers: Develop your own critique of a culture in crisis and sharpen your critical language.
• A vibrant academic community: Join a lively, diverse community committed to high-quality literary fiction and exciting contemporary poetry, with alumni and staff including published authors and Nobel Laureates.
• Choose your location: The Creative Writing MA can also be studied solely in our Paris centre or solely in Canterbury.

About the School of English

The School of English has a strong international reputation and global perspective, apparent both in the background of its staff and in the diversity of our teaching and research interests. You will be a part of a lively, confident research culture, sustained by a vibrant, ambitious intellectual community.

Our expertise ranges from the medieval to the postmodern, including British, American and Irish literature, postcolonial writing, 18th-century studies, Shakespeare, early modern literature and culture, Victorian studies, modern poetry, critical theory and cultural history. 

As scholars and creative practitioners, academic staff in the School of English are national and international leaders in their fields. To find out more about our research areas and staffs research interests.

Studying at the Paris School of Arts and Culture

The Paris School of Arts and Culture is a specialist, postgraduate centre located in the heart of Paris. We offer interdisciplinary, flexible programmes, taught in English, which take full advantage of all the cultural resources Paris offers. Study trips to the city’s museums, art exhibitions, archives, cinemas and architectural riches are an integral part of your studies.

The interdisciplinary nature of the School means you can choose modules from outside your subject area, broadening your view of your subject. As part of our international community of students and staff, you can take part in regular seminars and talks, write for the student-run literary magazine or help to organise our annual student conference.