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Masters applications for 2023 entry are now closed.

Applications for September 2024 will open on Monday 25 September. Applications are now open for programmes with a January 2024 start. View our programmes »

• Develop the critical contexts and practical skills to engage with global publishing models across print and digital environments and familiarise yourself with the processes of commissioning, production, marketing, and distribution.
• Equips you to build your career in the fast-changing publishing industry to set up your own innovative publishing initiative with entrepreneurial support from   SETSquared Exeter , or to undertake further research in this growing field of study.
• Draws on the teaching expertise of industry professionals and researchers, as well as providing the opportunity for you to undertake a work placement module and pursue either a practical publishing project or research-based dissertation.
• Join and network with a growing hub for the publishing industry and literary community in the South West, as Exeter develops as an UNESCO   City of Literature .
• You will develop analytical and creative tools for innovation within and beyond existing publishing structures, with several optional, interdisciplinary modules from English, Creative Industries and Modern Languages departments.
• Our curriculum is guided by our Industry Advisory Board, which includes Valerie Brandes (CEO, Jacaranda Books), Anna Cohn Orchard (Director, Exeter City of Literature), Gracie Cooper (Publisher, Little Toller Books), Louisa Joyner (Associate Publisher, Faber & Faber), Sanphy Thomas (Managing Director, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Hachette Bristol), and Emma Shercliff (Literary Agent, Laxfield Literary Associates).
• By actively co-creating your learning experience with industry professionals we provide our graduates with the best possible education to enter the world of publishing.

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Discover MA Publishing at the University of Exeter.

Develop transferable skills, specialist knowledge and professional experience through interdisciplinary teaching

Focus on professional practice and the cultural management aspects of Creative Industries and Humanities

Industry placement options

Opportunities for study in the field

Entry requirements

We will consider applicants with a 2:2 Honours degree with 53% or above, or international equivalent. We consider applications from a wide range of backgrounds, where applicants can provide evidence of a passion for developing a career in the publishing industry.

Applications from industry professionals, or applicants with relevant work experience or aptitude in publishing, bookselling or the literary and cultural industries, seeking an academic qualification or the opportunity to enhance your skills or knowledge in this field are also welcomed.

Entry requirements for international students

English language requirements.

International students need to show they have the required level of English language to study this course. The required test scores for this course fall under Profile B2 . Please visit our English language requirements page to view the required test scores and equivalencies from your country.

The Publishing and Power: Black and Asian Literary Networks in the UK module taught us that there's so much more going on in this area of the publishing industry than we realise. 

It covers the system of publishing and questions the biasness that prevails in the industry. Personally, if I decide to enter this field, I know I will be coming from a position of strength, as through this module I have gained knowledge about methodologies of publishing and its ways of operating, which is and will remain valuable professionally and/or in academia.

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MA Creative Writing (studied Publishing and Power: Black and Asian Literary Networks in the UK module)

Course content

The programme is divided into units of study called modules which are assigned 'credits'. The credit rating of a module is proportional to the total workload, with 1 credit being nominally equivalent to 10 hours of work.

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

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Uk fees per year:.

£12,000 full-time; £6,000 part-time

International fees per year:

£24,300 full-time; £12,150 part-time

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We have designed this programme to address the full spectrum of diverse skills required for working in the publishing industry today. 

From developmental editing and working with writers to the layout, production, and marketing that are part of a book’s path to its readers, we teach skills that will make you a qualified candidate for many jobs—or refine the skills you might already have.

The publishing industry is increasingly acknowledging that hiring people with a diversity of experience leads to a more representative, just, and robust industry. This programme operates with a similar ethos and is committed to helping the industry reconceptualize how it operates by training its next generation of employees and leaders.

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Teaching and research

Learning and teaching.

Drawing on the teaching expertise of industry professionals and researchers, as well as providing the opportunity to undertake a work placement module and pursue either a practical publishing project or research-based dissertation, this MA Publishing cultivates excellence through industry connections, research, and the acquisition of professional skills.

This programme looks to combine academic theory, with regular industry input and relevant placements and practical projects to provide a holistic learning experience, which builds industry relevant academic knowledge as well as a strong set of soft skills to support employability. You can also learn about the publishing industry through the archive, with sessions taught using the Agatha Christie business papers .

You can undertake a publishing work placement and will have opportunities to network with industry professionals. You can also choose to tailor the programme by choosing a research-based dissertation which could also support a route into further research.

Established by the University of Exeter’s Department of English and Film, currently fourth in the UK for research power, this programme of study benefits from the following strengths:

• Research expertise and   Special Collections   in publishing practices and histories across the Victorian, Modernist and contemporary periods
• A vibrant Creative Writing department working across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children’s writing and well-networked with publishers across the UK
• Cutting-edge research aligned with the agenda of decolonizing the curriculum and concerned with Publishing Studies as a methodology that makes visible the structures of power out of which literature is produced
• A growing World and Postcolonial Cultures research group with expertise in global publishing practices that moves beyond dominant Euro-American models to study innovative publishing initiatives from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Director, Senior Lecturer in Global and World Literatures, English department

Dr Katie Brown

Senior lecturer in latin american studies within the department of modern languages and cultures.

Dr Helen Vassallo

Senior lecturer (french).

Professor Sam North

Associate professor.

Anna Kiernan

Senior lecturer in creativity and innovation and co-director of ma creativity.

Kate is an editor and literary producer with twenty years’ experience of working in the publishing industry. She was previously Head of Humanities at Palgrave Macmillan, responsible for paperback publishing across history, literature, theatre and language. She worked for four years as an Editor and Producer at Kenya’s leading literary publisher Kwani Trust. She is currently a Director for Kigali-based publishing company Huza Press and an Editor (and co-founder) of  www.africainwords.com . She also regularly curates workshops and festivals, and is the co-founder and co-producer of  Africa Writes–Bristol  and Africa Writes–Exeter. She part of the Steering Group for  Exeter’s UNESCO City of Literature programme  and is a member of Bristol’s Literature Development Board.  Kate’s research focuses on Africa-based publishers and festivals, and global literary networks.

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I specialize in contemporary Latin American culture, with a particular focus on Venezuela. My main research interests are the circulation of people (travel, migration and exile) and of texts (publishing, cultural policy and translation), especially how the two relate to each other and to questions of identity.

Dr Helen Vassallo graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1999, with a first-class Joint Honours degree in French and Hispanic Studies. She completed an MA in Literary Translation and a PhD in French, before joining the Department of Modern Languages at Exeter in 2004. She teaches a range of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and supervises PhD research in each of her areas of expertise (women's writing, translation, and contemporary French/Francophone literature).

Sam has extensive experience in both publishing and the written word. From 1997-2000, he was a Director of the literary agency AP Watt (subsequently bought by United Agents), and from 2000 to 2005 he helped to found the literary agency Conville and Walsh. Sam has also written eight novels, two books on the craft of writing, and two films. In 2010 he won an Eric Gregory Award; his novel The Unnumbered was long-listed for the 2004 Man-Booker prize and his first novel won the Somerset Maugham Award.

Anna is a creative strategist, writer and publisher with over twenty years’ experience of working in the creative and cultural industries. Previously, Anna was the creative and editorial director at Stranger Collective, a creative content studio, a national advisor for Arts Council Wales and a Trustee for the Cornwall Film Festival. She recently acquired The Literary Platform, which the Guardian Professional/h.Club 100 listed as “one of the most innovative and influential” businesses in the creative industries. Anna delivers training and consultancy for clients including Lush cosmetics, The Guardian, Arsenal FC, the NSPCC, The National Trust and the Department for Transport. With a background as a fiction editor at Simon & Schuster publishing, Anna co-founded the MA in Publishing at Kingston. She thrives on curating collaborations and is experienced in partnership brokering, event programming, organisational change and business development. Anna’s research primarily focuses on writing culture and cultural value.

D-M Withers

Lecturer in publishing.

Amina Yaqin

Associate professor in world literatures and publishing.

D-M Withers is director of Lurid Editions , a micro but culturally ambitious publisher of books that have fallen out of print, and memory. D-M's current research focuses on the life and career of Bengali folklorist Deben Bhattacharya and late twentieth century publishing histories. D-M has published extensively on the cultural activism of feminist social movements, and is the author of Virago Reprints and Modern Classics: the Timely Business of Feminist Publishing and Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission: Theory, Practice and Cultural Heritage .

Amina Yaqin is Associate Professor in World Literatures and Publishing at the University of Exeter.  Her monograph  Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani women's poetry  is forthcoming with Anthem Press in 2021. She is co-author with Peter Morey of  Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 911 (Harvard University Press, 2011) and has co-edited,  Contesting Islamophobia: media, politics and culture  (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury 2019); and a number of other books, special issues and articles in peer reviewed journals and chapters in books. She is a globally recognised scholar on Pakistan and its diaspora. Her commentary and interviews have been published by the  BBC ,  SkyNews ,  EuroNews ,  TRT World, Indus News, Pakistan Television Network, The National UAE, Daily Pioneer ,  The Times Higher Education ,  The British Film Institute  and  The Conversation . She co-edits a book series on Multicultural Textualities with Manchester University Press with inter-university colleagues, is on the advisory board of scholarly journals including the  Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies ,  Journal of Research (Humanities) Punjab University,   Sindhu: an interdisciplinary Journal of South Asian Studies  and the  Journal of Commonwealth Literature,   and has curated a global festival of ideas on Decolonising Knowledge at SOAS in 2020. 

Exeter has a strong track record in supporting its graduates into work. In addition, the HESA destination of leaver’s data from master’s degrees in publishing shows an exceptionally high number of graduates securing full-time employment following this qualification. This is reflective of the MA Publishing as a qualification that the industry recognizes and values.

This programme prepares graduates to build careers with major publishing houses and small presses. It is designed to enable students to secure entry-level roles, but also to progress faster through the industry and become innovators and leaders. Graduates will be equipped to take on roles in the industry from editorial to marketing to sales to production, and to work across print and digital, literary and popular, trade and academic, book and journal, fiction and non-fiction, children and adult publishing. Throughout the programme, you will be offered opportunities to build professional networks with industry and our alumni community.

The programme explores entrepreneurial skills in the context of the publishing industry and therefore equips graduates with the skills to set up their own publishing companies or literary initiatives or to take on publishing roles within charities, government bodies or other cultural organisations. It also provides skills that are highly transferable (from project management to digital literacy to team-working) and relevant to securing and building roles in the literary, digital and creative industries more broadly. All of these skills will ensure that graduates are able to succeed well beyond graduation and their first role in industry.

As part of this programme, graduates will have benefitted from a complementary set of employability workshops designed to help graduates to successfully compete in the labour market after graduating.

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Welcome to the Creative Writing Subject Guide

Use this guide to help you make the most of the library and information resources and services.

Introduction to the library

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• Browzine This link opens in a new window Browseable access to digital journal issues, organised by subject

Connect to the platform with your Exeter IT login, and create a free account to save and organise journals and articles.

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Use LibKey to help you get access to full text articles. 

Click the LibKey icon above to add the extension to your web browser. Select 'University of Exeter' as your institution and login using your Exeter IT login when prompted. 

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Where to start your search

Library search.

For more in depth research in databases and archives, use the  A-Z Databases List .

Key resources

• Journal and magazine articles
• Short story collections
• Dramatic writing
• Writing fiction
• Books on creative writing
• Research databases
• News sources
• Archives/primary sources
• Reference resources
• Audio-visual
• Availability of materials

Most of our journal articles are available in digital format.

For targeted searching, select a research database and explore the published literature in your field. Key databases are flagged in the Research Databases tab above.

On the app (or via your browser) you can save your favourites to your bookshelf, get notified about new issues, sort your articles into collections and connect to Library Search.

• Granta Literary magazine for new writing
• Mslexia Magazine for women writers, containing articles and resources on writers, writing, and publishing
• New Yorker A national weekly magazine that offers a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, foreign affairs, business, technology, popular culture and the arts, along with humor, fiction, poetry and cartoons.
• Paris Review The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.
• Wasafiri Magazine for international contemporary writing. One of its inaugural aims was to provide much needed literary and critical coverage of writers from African, Caribbean, Asian and Black British backgrounds who often struggled to get adequate attention in the mainstream press.

These are just a few examples of the titles available to you. Look on Library Search or your module's reading list for more.

• How to search Proquest One Literature
• How to search JSTOR
• How to search Gale Literature

Some useful resources for creative writing modules may include literary reviews. You can find these in the sources below: 

• London review of books a journal of literary essays
• New York Review of Books literary essays and reviews
• Times Literary Supplement a weekly literary review

You can narrow your search results to book reviews when searching JSTOR: 

• Go to advanced search
• Under Item Type, select Reviews 

You can narrow your search results to book reviews when searching ProQuest One Literature: 

• Click on Advanced Search
• Select Criticism from the options on the left

Select 'review' from document type:

• News sources can be invaluable research resources.
• They provide contemporaneous accounts of events as they emerge and unfold, affording a snapshot of developments at a point in time.
• You can engage in historical research by tracing commentary on issues over time, to identify and track changing political, economic and social trends. 
• The availability of news resources online allows for very effective and comprehensive searching, in a way that was impossible with print or microfilm / microfiche editions of the newspapers
• Poetry Foundation Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 100-year archive of Poetry magazine.
• Paris Review interviews In depth interviews with famous writers.

Online and print access to the interviews and articles in Paris Review is available via Library Search

Literary awards and award-winning titles that we have in the library collection

The University has access to an extensive range of online primary source materials. These contain digitised copies of documents, letters, books, photographs and other primary sources. 

The  Primary Sources Libguide   will help you identify the best databases for your research. 

We have literary manuscripts, reviews and literary magazines, collections of novels, short stories and poems. See the Art and Literature section on the Primary Sources guide for some more resources.

These are just some of the online collections you can access - there are many more!

We have a small collection of audiobooks, available for you to borrow from our Overdrive platform and the Libby app .

Where available, links to Overdrive e-books and/or audiobooks will appear on your reading list.

You can also see our collection here:  https://exeteruk.overdrive.com/

How do I use Overdrive?

To search for books and borrow items you need to sign in to Overdrive using your University email address and password. 

• Check out up to 3 titles at a time
• Borrow titles for up to 14 days 
• Place up to 3 holds on titles that are currently checked out

N.B. This is separate to your borrowing allowances on your University library account.

Click on your account or the bookshelf icon to view your loans, holds, and borrowing history.

Alternatively, you can do this in the Libby app - there are more instructions here .

A reference resource, such as an encyclopedia, dictionary, guide, or volume of literary criticism, provides general background information on a topic. High quality reference works produced by scholars are an excellent place to start your research, and can give you give a useful overview of a subject.

Includes the Historical Thesaurus, where you can explore synonyms of a word over time, arranged chronologically. Use the OED video guides for more information.

A wide range of sound, video and audio resources are available to help bring drama, poetry and prose to life. 

Find out more on the English: which resources do I use? guide

In some cases, material you want to consult may not be available to you at Exeter. 

This service can be used  to request books/journal articles from other libraries. 

Students can make book suggestions to the Library. Submit requests online and they will be reviewed by the library. If the book is unlikely to be used by others after your dissertation work, then you may be directed to the Document Delivery scheme instead, for short term access to material.

Use this service to search across the book and journal collections of the UK research and specialist libraries.

You can search to see if copies of books/journals are available in other libraries that you could visit whilst at home over the vacation, or by a special trip.  Always check the access requirements before you travel, if you wish to visit another library.  Find out more about  visiting other libraries.  

• Find poetry via the library
• Literary magazines
• Books on writing poetry
• Books on reading and studying poetry
• Contemporary poetry collections
• Award winning poetry
• Poetry audio recordings

Use Library Search to look for particular works of poetry.

You can also try searching some of our databases, such as:

• American Poetry Review The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary prose. The American Poetry Review has been in continuous publication since 1972 and has presented the work of over 8,000 writers.
• PN Review Launched as Poetry Nation, each issue includes an editorial, letters, news and notes, articles, interviews, features, poems, translations, and a substantial book review section.

Keep up to date with the work of the most recent award-winning poets, and look back on previous winners of these prizes.

• Forward Prize Forward Prizes for Poetry honour excellence in contemporary poetry published in UK and Ireland.
• T.S. Eliot Prize Award for the best new poetry collection published in the UK or Ireland
• Books in the Guardian Includes poetry roundup - the best recent collections of poetry
• Poetry Archive
• National Poetry Library
• Scottish Poetry Library
• Poetry on vinyl
• The poet speaks (vinyl)

We have a selection of recordings of poets reading their own works , on vinyl. 

This collection is reference only and can't be borrowed, but we have a listening booth and record player available for you to use at the Old Library on the Streatham campus.

Just let us know if you'd like to arrange to listen to any of the recordings; email  [email protected] or use Library chat to get in touch.

Click here to listen to some radio programmes discussing form in poetry . Click on  Sign in  and then search for  University of Exeter

In this series, free verse poet Andrew McMillan meets a diverse group of contemporary British poets who are re-framing traditional techniques to write about the modern world, exploring why form is fashionable again.

2016 BBC Radio 3 programme The Verb: On Form

Ian McMillan looks at form with guests Claudia Rankine, Don Paterson and AL Kennedy.

Writing for children and young adults

• Primary sources
• Author biographies

You have access to hundreds of online books that cover creative writing and wider topics.

Use Library Search to search by topic to discover relevant content.  

Some of the titles highlighted below may be of interest to you.

The best way to find articles is to search by keyword using Library Search or a database. This method will searches across a large number of journals at one time, helping to ensure that you don't miss a useful piece of research/

However, you may want to view and keep up to date with a particular journal if it is key to your subject area.

The following journals relevant to Children's literature are available via Library Search.

• Children's literature association quarterly
• Children's literature
• Children's literature in education
• Bookbird: a journal of international children's literature

We have access to many collections of online primary sources, covering a wide range of topic areas, historical periods and encompassing a variety of different types of digitised material.

You can see the full range on the Primary Sources guide .

The following collections of online primary sources would be of interest to those studying the history of children's literature.

• Children's Literature and Culture This link opens in a new window Rare books, games, ephemera, and artwork from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the golden age of childrens literature. From mass-produced chapbooks to richly illustrated book-beautifuls, this resource examines the way in which new concepts were introduced to young readers, encouraging an engagement with the imagination which went on to fundamentally shape established notions of childhood.
• Gale Literature This link opens in a new window 'Something about the author' includes biographies of children and young adult authors and illustrators
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• Creative Writing – Fiction (Beginners)

Find out how to take prompts and starting points and use them to create fiction in some form, plus how to put your ideas onto paper.

Course Information

• Course Type Adult - Leisure
• Subject Area Creative Writing
• Qualification N/A
• Study Mode: Part Time Only
• Course Level Beginners
• Location Community Location – Exeter Community Centre
• Course Length 9 weeks

We advise booking early to avoid disappointment. You can now book ahead online for all three terms.

You will learn to self-critique and analyse and discuss your own work.

This is a relaxed class where discussion and the sharing of ideas is very important. By the end of the course you will have a body of work and you will hopefully contribute to a class anthology.

Please note, this course is held at Exeter Community Centre  on Wednesdays (dates above).

What topics will I study?

Each week we look at a different topic and you will use a variety of prompts to get you writing. Topics include: characterisation, childhood, setting, narrative voice, perspectives, letters, colour, objects, sound and Christmas. There are practical exercises and discussions during the session that lead to homework. This is shared and discussed the following week in the supportive and encouraging atmosphere of the group.

Next steps: The course is structured to provide flexible writing opportunities that will meet your needs as your skills develop, so you could return to this course.

An enjoyment of words, an open mind and a sense of humour.

Learners will be given a College ID badge and have access to all College facilities, including Learning Resource Centres and computers.

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If you have questions or would like to speak to someone, our team of Customer Service Advisers can help answer your questions or direct your enquiry to the correct team. Speak to us today on 01392 400500 or send us a message using our contact form: www.exe-coll.ac.uk/contact .

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Universities in Moscow that accept the IELTS test

Moscow state technical university of civil aviation, international banking institute, moscow state institute of international relations, russian presidential academy of national economy and public administration, rudn university, national research university - higher school of economics (hse), lomonosov moscow state university (msu), new economic school (nes), national university of science and technology (misis), moscow university touro - international school of business and management, 10 most popular study destinations for students in russia.

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Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

Grad Program: MA in Creative Writing in Russian (Moscow)

Application opens February 2019

For fiction/non-fiction writers in Russian.

MA “Creative Writing”  is:

• Practical and theoretical/historical courses, such as  Creative Writing Workshop ,  Storytelling in Different Media ,  Literary Editing , Poetics of Novel and Screenwriting ;
• Unique professors and teachers, among them famous Russian writers, screenwriters and critics –  Marina Stepnova ,  Lyudmila Ulitskaya ,  Lev Danilkin ,  Sergey Gandlevsky  and  Maya Kucherskaya  as well as prominent philologists, authors of academic and non-fiction books  Oleg Lekmanov ,  Ekaterina Lyamina  and  Alexey Vdovin ;
• Participation in open readings, discussions and  literary expeditions ,  publications in students’ projects ;
• International exchange  – lectures and workshops of the leading specialists in Creative Writing, students’ exchange in the best world universities;
•  Help and support in the process of  employment  in various publishing houses, editorials, Mass Media, high schools and universities and PR;
• Creation and participation in  cultural projects ;
• Flexible timetable  enabling students to work while studying.

Our graduates already work in the best publishing houses, universities and schools in Moscow. Their writing is published in the authoritative literary magazines. Their projects (such as prize  “_Litblog”  for the best literary blogger and first Creative Writing Internet resource in Russian  “Mnogobukv” and collections of prose) have gained much attention.

Language of instruction: Russian

You can apply to non-paid place as a foreign student in February. Looking forward to seeing you at Higher School of Economics!

More information about the programme:  https://www.hse.ru/en/ma/litmaster