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Where did you study your MA, Phil? Are there any good MA courses in this area?
I'm looking at doing an MA, and the two I've pretty much narrowed it down to are at Sheffield Hallam University and The university of Manchester... don't know if you've seen them, but here are the links... enjoy...
Sheffield Hallam's MA Writing online prospectus:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/english/mawrit.htm
More info about Sheffield Hallam's Writing MA:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/cultural/english/mawriting.html
University of Manchester MA Writing info, with further links on this page:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taughtdegrees/courses/fulltime/course/index.htm?code=PMTF1-H32145
There is a pure Novel Writing MA at the University of Manchester, but its website is somewhat troublesome, but I'll put it up here anyway...
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/pgdegree/ma.htm#novel
Here's how that last page is supposed to read:
MA in Novel Writing
The MA provides specialised tuition for postgraduate students in dedicated courses. Students will complete the taught elements in the course in one year and will be required to submit a completed novel for examination by the summer of the year following. Click here for further information from Suzannah Dunn, the Course Director, on Novel Writing at Manchester.
The MA has five components:
1. Workshops in Novel Writing (AM5300) The workshop sessions are weekly, with at least two and a half hours contact per session for the two semesters of the academic year. The sessions will be chaired by the two course tutors. Each student will be required during the year to present four extracts of approximately 5,000 words each on a strict rota to be established in the first week. Those extracts will be workshopped on the week following their distribution. Students must attend all sessions and will be expected to provide both oral and written commentary on each other’s work on a weekly basis.
2. A course on 'Some Recent and Contemporary Novels'(AM 5310) Meetings will be weekly and will be chaired by the course tutors, or other members of the Department of English and American Studies. One novel will be discussed at each meeting. A book list will be sent to successful applicants at a later stage. One essay per semester will be required, each of 3-4,000 words.
3. The Project (AM 5340) Students are required to select one of the following options: a) to write an essay on some aspect of the fiction industry (publishing, reviewing, subsidy, the transmission of fiction in non-printed media etc). b) to write an essay on a specific novelist or on a literary or intellectual movement in relation to the development of modern fiction. c) to produce a portfolio of creative work in a written medium other than long prose fiction. The essays under a) and b) should be up to 7,000 words in length. The portfolio under c) will be of equivalent weight, its length to be established with reference to the medium selected.
4. The Text: Appraisal, Presentation and Publishing (AM5322) The bulk of this course will be taught in weekly sessions in the second semester and will involve visits from agents, editors, and writers. By the end of the semester students will be required to present a portfolio containing the following elements: an account of the origin and development of their novel; a specimen letter to an agent and/or publisher and a jacket/cover blurb describing the book in different ways according to the different purposes for which such promotional writing is required. This course is the equivalent of the foundation courses in research methods in other MA programmes.
5. A Completed Novel (AM 5330) This is the equivalent to the dissertation in other MA programmes. It is due for delivery by the end of May in the academic year following the year of the student’s registration. The novel should be at least 40,000 words in length in a form suitable for submission to a publishing house. Students are strongly advised to begin work on their novel over the summer before the course commences. There will be provision, if necessary, for contact between students and staff during the post-registration period, when the novel is being completed.
Tutors: Ms Suzannah Dunn, Martyn Bedford, John McAuliffe [from 2004-5].
NB. None of the course units on this MA can be taken singly as part of another MA degree course
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Hmm, yeah I see what you mean about it being troublesome. lol.
On looking at them, (and thank you for the links btw,  ) I do like the look of Sheffield Hallam's course.
Will you be applying for any grants etc yourself? How are you going about it, if you are?
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Hmm, yeah I see what you mean about it being troublesome. lol.
On looking at them, (and thank you for the links btw, ) I do like the look of Sheffield Hallam's course.
Will you be applying for any grants etc yourself? How are you going about it, if you are?
I also like the look of Sheffield Hallam's MA. It's reputed to be one of the best in the country, maybe not as famous as the one at UEA which Phil did, but good enough, I feel.
As far as I'm aware, the last I checked, the only bursary available for the course is through the Arts & Humanities Research Council:
http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/
The application for a bursary here is competition based. I haven't really had time to research as thoroughly as I should; there may be other grants and bursaries available, but I'm not sure. I've been in contact with Sheffield Hallam, but they don't know of any others, either...
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Nice, one. Cheers Edge, much appreciated. 
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