The Department has run an M.A. since 1983. Our graduates have gone on to win prizes and publication by leading publishers and magazines. We run an annual Getting Published workshop, attended by leading agents and editors. Entrants for the course are expected already to be able to produce publishable work. At these, students meet with Linda Anderson, novelist, and W. N. Herbert, poet.
Students also attend workshops run by visiting professional writers.
Occasionally we write pieces to specific guidelines. Individual meetings are held by arrangement to discuss problems of self-expression in the light of a student's particular needs. When necessary, discussions are held on some of the key methods, terms, and ideas that crop up during sustained writing projects. A substantial folder of finished work, brought to its best possible state during the summer after workshops have ended, is due in by September 1st. It must also include a critique of the other students' work.