MA Creative Writing

Academic Overview

Creative writing is learned through practice, feedback, and reading widely. IU's MA offers fiction, memoir, and narrative non-fiction workshops with small cohorts and faculty who are published authors. You will produce a portfolio of polished work, study craft through published exemplars, and learn publishing pathways including agents, self-publishing, and digital media. Warsaw's literary heritage informs the programme ethos. MA Creative Writing is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 24 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Fiction Workshop I through Fiction Workshop I; Reading as a Writer; Narrative Non-Fiction; Poetry & Hybrid Forms; Fiction Workshop II; Memoir & Life Writing, and finish on Major Creative Project. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Produce a portfolio of revised creative work Give and receive constructive workshop critique Analyse narrative structure, voice, and point of view Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.

The degree is awarded directly by IU International University of Applied Sciences, seated in Warsaw, Poland. Studies are conducted in full alignment with Polish and European academic standards.

Curriculum & Core Modules

The curriculum comprises 36 ECTS credits structured across progressive academic modules:

Teaching & Assessment Methodology

Career Trajectories

• Author
• Editor
• Content Strategist
• Journalist
• Communications Director

European Campus & Academic Facilities

Seated at Prosta 20 in Warsaw, IU International University of Applied Sciences offers state-of-the-art academic lecture halls, digital research repositories, and vibrant collegiate spaces for both on-campus and international distance scholars.

Main academic building at Prosta 20, Warsaw.

Collegiate courtyard and research study spaces.

Academic facilities and faculty laboratory suites.