Oxford Brookes UniversityMore about MA Creative Writing
Why Oxford?
Our Creative Writing Fellows lead on average a major workshop session every other week of each semester as well as other shorter sessions.
After reading from her Young Adult novel at the 2012 Annual Showcase Helen Eve has a two-book deal…Teaching Fellows
The work of our core staff of practicing and published creative writers and academics is supported by our unique group of distinguished Creative Writing Fellows and guest speakers who include:
Philip Pullman – author of internationally best-selling trilogy His Dark Materials
Sarah Dunant – bestselling author of Sacred Hearts
Kate Clanchy – winner of BBC National Short Story 2009
James Meek – author of the Booker Prize long-listed The People’s Act of Love)
Patience Agbabi – star performance poet and author of Bloodshot Monochrome
Nick Cohen – star Observer journalist and bestselling author
John L. Williams – responsible for commissioning three titles short-listed for the Orange Prize and one for the Booker Prize
Staff
Dr James Hawes is the author of six novels with Jonathan Cape including a Sunday Times bestseller and two novels adapted to the screen starring Joseph Fiennes and Michael Sheen respectively.
Tobias Hill was selected as one of the country’s Next Generation poets and shortlisted for the 2004 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His collection of stories, Skin, won the Pen-Macmillan Prize for Fiction.
