How to Balance the Critical and Creative Halves of a UK Creative Writing PhD
Doing a Creative Writing PhD in the UK is a weird balancing act. If you were doing a standard English literature doctorate, things would be straightforward: you’d write an 80,000 to 100,000-word monograph, hand it in, and defend it. But a creative writing PhD doesn’t work like that. You’re expected to hand in two completely […]
How to Write a UK PhD Proposal That Admissions Panels Will Actually Accept
If you’re applying for a doctorate at a UK university, your research proposal carries almost all the weight. You can have first-class honors and glowing references, but if your proposal falls flat, your application gets binned. It’s that simple. The main problem most candidates run into is that they misunderstand what an admissions panel actually […]