Creative Writing

Unlock your creativity with our dynamic Creative Writing degree where you will experiment with styles, inspired by our diverse city, and develop your craft through an inclusive and encouraging approach.

Engage in critical reading and innovative writing across various genres, applying your skills to real-world scenarios like publishing.

Guided by supportive tutors, you will explore key texts and connect your work to political, social, and cultural theories. You will experience learning in museums, galleries, theatres, archives, and beyond.

At the end of year 1 you can choose a specialist subject that complements your degree or to carry on with the broader Creative Writing degree.

• Creative Writing with Wellbeing BA(Hons)

• Creative Writing with Comics and Graphic Novels BA(Hons)

TOP REASONS TO CHOOSE THIS COURSE

• Staff are active writers – you will learn from published novelists, poets and screenwriters.

• Strong local publishing connections – we organise a programme of visiting writers and publishing professionals. Take a look at some of our prizes and partnerships.

• Scrivener talks give you the chance to speak to a professional writer about their work.

• Our focus on employability, including a placement, ensures you will graduate as an emerging writer with a strong skill set.

• Extracurricular activities such as the Performance and Community Research and Enterprise Group and the student-led Creative Writing Society.

• Alumni making a difference – graduates from our programmes include Paris Lees, Merci Roberts, Munroe Bergdorf and Tanaka Mhisi.

• Excellent student support and a warm and encouraging community.

Course Modules

Year 1
Narratives of (Un)belonging
The World, the Text and the Critic
Writers on Writing
Storying The Self
Staging Politics
Brighton Writes

Year 2
Comics, Cultures and Societies
Genres
Childhood, Psychology and Society
Stories that Transform: Reading and Writing for Change
Image and Text: The Language of Comics and Graphic Novels
Psychology Mental Health and Distress
Professional Practice and Placement
Research and Practice

Options *
Introduction to Journalism
Twentieth Century Literary Experiments
Queer Writing
Literature and Art History
Power and Persuasion
Community Engagement
Writing for Stage, Radio and Screen
Twentieth Century Literary Experiments
Poetry and Process
Early Modern Literature

Optional Placement Year

Final year
Creative Dissertation
Brighton Rocks: Final Year Show
Comics and Graphics Dissertation

Options *
Applied Comics: Comics in the Social World
Community Placement: Theory in Practice
Creative Writing Project
Women’s Writing and Feminist Theory
Gothic Texts and Contexts
Victorian Sexualities
Literature and the World Wars
Citizen Journalism: Theory and Practice
Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Children
Counselling Skills and the Therapeutic Relationship
Community Wellbeing and Social Justice
Sexualities
Cyberpsychology
Ecopsychology and Ecotherapy
Critical Addiction Studies
Environment, Landscape and Nature Writing

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.