Contemporary Writing

Overview

Contemporary Writing at Brunel University of London is a leader in the field, which has for many years now ranked in the top 10% of Creative Writing degrees in the UK. We have some of Britain’s most celebrated, talented, original, and experienced writers actively publishing in the industry today, including Benjamin Zephaniah, Will Self, Bernardine Evaristo, Christopher Fox, Geoff King, Fiona Templeton and many more, having published over 80 powerfully diverse books between them and written for all the national newspapers.

Key Facts

• Our particular areas of strength include modern and contemporary literature, Shakespeare, Renaissance studies, Victorian literature and culture, and world literature in English.

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

• Poetry, Including For Performance
• Women's And Multicultural Writing
• Horror And Thriller Writing
• Post-colonial Fiction
• Children's/ Ya Fiction
• Non-fiction

Admission requirements

Academic requirements

GPA: Upper Second Class

English requirements

TOEFL iBT 108 | PTE Academic 73 | IELTS 7.5

Other requirements

• The general University entrance requirement for registration for a research degree is normally a First or Upper Second Class Honours degree (1st or 2:1).
• If you require a Tier 4 visa to study in the UK, you must prove knowledge of the English language so that we can issue you a Certificate of Acceptance for Study (CAS). To do this, you will need an IELTS for UKVI or Trinity SELT test pass gained from a test centre approved by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) and on the Secure English Language Testing (SELT) list.

Tuition Fees

International: 38,257 AUD / year (≈ 20,400 GBP / year)

Domestic: 9,823 AUD / year (≈ 5,238 GBP / year)

Additional Details:

• Tuition for international: £10,200 part-time
• Tuition for UK: £2,619 part-time

Living costs

London, United Kingdom: 2,132–4,045 AUD / month