MA Creative Writing portfolios

What do we look for in your digital portfolio?

You'll need to supply a writing portfolio consisting of 2,000 to 5,000 words of your recent writing. This will ideally include some fiction.

You may choose to submit a single short story, an extract from a larger work such as a novel, or a collection of shorter pieces, such as a few poems, a segment of a feature-length screenplay, and a piece of flash fiction.

Please also include a letter of application no longer than two pages, which answers the following questions:

• Why have you chosen this piece of writing?
• What are its strengths and weaknesses?
• Why might we want to offer you a place on the course?
• What experience of fiction writing do you have?
• What are your hopes and expectations of the course?

How to submit your digital portfolio

Please email [email protected] (home applications) or [email protected] (international applications) with a link to your video or recording, or a compressed PDF of your image work. Include your name, the course you're applying for and student ID number.

Please host any videos on a video sharing site such as YouTube or Vimeo - you can make the listing private and send us just the link. If you are unable to share your videos via a video sharing site please use a file sharing service such as Google Drive or Drop Box. If you do, you need to ensure your file is less than 1GB.