Creative Writing Careers

Turn your writing craft into creative opportunities

Enhance your skills in short fiction, the novel, poetry, and life-writing with Goldsmiths’ MA in Creative Writing. This 180-credit, fully online programme is specifically tailored for students seeking structured development, critical engagement, and professional direction in the literary world.

Build an advanced portfolio of original work, gain industry insights, and develop critical and professional skills valued across a range of creative and knowledge-based roles. With a flexible, asynchronous format, you can develop your creative writing alongside work and other commitments without compromising.

• Explore pathways into publishing, media, education, and cultural sectors
• Grow professional networks with writers, academics, and industry partners
• Develop sustainable skills for a long-term creative and professional life

Skills you’ll gain

Develop advanced skills from crafting fiction, poetry, and life writing to editing, critical analysis, project management, and confident communication, which you can apply immediately across publishing, media, education, and other professional contexts.

• Advanced creative writing in fiction, poetry, and life writing
• Editing, revising, and proofreading
• Critical reading and literary analysis
• Research and information synthesis
• Giving and receiving constructive feedback
• Public speaking and presentation
• Teaching, mentoring, and facilitation
• Project management and self‑directed working