Sarah Moss has designed and taught literature and writing programmes for twenty years. As Director of the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick, she led a curriculum centred on experiment, serious play and creative failure, which are the roots of her own writing practice. As co-ordinator of the MA and MFA programmes in Creative Writing at UCD, she has developed an approach to creative pedagogy more interested in practice than product, teaching students to make art and literature in and of their own times and places before counting words and second-guessing a marketplace. She reviews contemporary fiction for publications including The Guardian, the New York Times, the Irish Times and the Times Literary Supplement.

Sarah is the author of eight novels, two memoirs, numerous essays, and academic work on Romanticism, travel, food and gender. Her work has been listed for prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Wellcome Prize. Summerwater was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and is being filmed for broadcast on Channel 4 in 2025. She has a BA, MSt. and doctorate from the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Since its inception as a literary quarterly in 1979, Granta has been committed to championing the best in new writing. As part of our ongoing mission to support new and emerging writers, we have developed a programme of workshops with our education partners Professional Writing Academy. These courses are designed to offer writers the tools to develop their technical skills, and the ability to understand the nuances of excellent literary craftsmanship.

These online, tutored courses are hosted on a fully accessible virtual platform, available anywhere in the world, offering flexible learning at a time and pace to suit individual needs. Each course draws on the archive of world-class literature published in the pages of Granta over the past forty years. Students will develop their authorial voice while honing their prose through practical assignments, one-to-one tutor feedback and peer learning with a cohort of committed students. Bursary-funded places will be available on each course for those in financial need.

Course entry is by application.

Course completion opens up our Alumni Space, which provides ongoing access to industry professionals, including authors, Granta editors and literary agents.

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