MA Creative Writing
Singapore, Singapore
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
30 Mar 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Aug 2025
TUITION FEES
SGD 31,500 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Craft your literary voice. Create stories of your time.
The programme develops the writers, editors, publishers, cultural curators, and writing teachers of tomorrow who create narratives that migrate from Singapore to the world's exponentially growing literary production and publishing market.
You will acquire a deep appreciation of the written word and the construction of written forms such as poetry, creative non-fiction, fiction, screenplays, and fiction-critical writing through standard modules regular writing workshops, and peer learning.
You will gain both breadth and depth through workshops devoted to all the major genres – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama – followed by a creative thesis project written in the genre of your choice. This sustained study of writing, editing, and publishing provides you with a critical, theoretical, and historical framework for analyzing literature, art, communication, and arts pedagogy.
Intensive graduate writing workshops with visiting writers (including Asian and Singapore voices), consultations with our published writing faculty, workshop peers, guest writers, and industry professionals improve writing, reading, and editing abilities, while providing meta-lessons in perception, creative problem-solving, social-emotional intelligence, communicative precision, interpersonal diplomacy, community, empathy, and human nature.
You will be able to participate in local and regional writing festivals to build awareness of networks, circulation, and reception of the written word. Graduates have already made a significant mark through works published by international literary publishers, as well as winning literary awards, particularly in Singapore.
Why apply
Professional education: Learn from established and emerging writers from Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Professional network: Study alongside novelists, poets, playwrights, video game writers, screenwriters and non-fiction writers.
Industry connection: Attend and participate in literary festivals in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Real-world knowledge: Develop your understanding of the Singapore and global publishing industries.
Career Opportunities
Novel, short story and poetry writing, playwriting and dramaturgy, screenwriting and filmmaking, journalism (print and broadcast), arts criticism, digital games, writing for industry and business, copywriting for advertising and marketing, editing, arts administration, business administration and academia.
Gallery
Curriculum
Full-time
- Dramatic Writing (30 credits)
- Story (30 credits)
- Language, Poetics, and the Writer’s Craft (30 credits)
- The Agora (30 credits)
- Final Research (60 credits)
Note: The workload will be approximately half for MA programmes offered with the part-time mode.
Modes of assessment
- Written Assignment
- Seminar Presentation
- Thesis or Project Work
- Student Designed Assessment
Curriculum framework
The LASALLE MA framework aims to provide graduates with a competitive edge that will meet the demands of the dynamic cultural and creative sector.
The MA framework has the following common structure:
Core modules
You will study three core modules* according to your chosen program of study. These modules aim to equip you with discipline-specific skills relevant to your area of research inquiry.
*For the MA Art Therapy and MA Music Therapy programmes, there will be additional modules for clinical placements.
Common module – the Agora
The common module, the Agora, has been designed to prepare you for the intensely collaborative experience of a creative career. You will be guided to reflect on the ‘place’ of your particular discipline in society, the economy, and the environment. You will consider and experiment with combining your discipline with others (multidisciplinary), blending your skills and knowledge with those of other disciplines (interdisciplinary) or even discovering new ways of working together (transdisciplinary).
The Final Research module
Research methods will be embedded into the Final Research (thesis) module. Within this module, formal and dedicated ‘research weeks’ will occur in the first and second semesters. The research weeks will be distinctive points within your program to allow you to concentrate fully on your research. The spread of its delivery is intended to provide you time to reflect, synthesize and consolidate your learning, and develop your research questions. You will also be provided six hours of supervision of your research.
Besides the immersion in the postgraduate research culture built through shared learning modules, the MA framework provides a transformative educational experience designed to shape you into a future-ready professional, equipped with the skills and expertise demanded by the industry.
Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
In recognition of outstanding academic excellence, leadership potential, and a passion for creativity and innovation, LASALLE offers a variety of scholarships to new and current students.
Application dates for scholarships will be reflected in the various scholarship pages. Other externally sponsored scholarships are also available to students. Enquiries and applications may be directed to the respective organisations.