Creative Writing

Learn the craft of creative writing from practising and published writers

Develop your voice as a writer as you learn from one of the most established and experienced Creative Writing teams in the UK.

This course will allow you to explore the creative pleasures and exciting challenges of developing your work from first idea, to early drafts, through to the final finished piece of work.

Learn from our team of practising and published poets, short story writers, novelists, dramatists and screenwriters, all of whom have extensive experience of the industry.

You will have the opportunity to learn, and then specialise in, a wide range of creative writing disciplines including: fiction, poetry, screenplays, creative non-fiction and digital writing.

On this course you will:

• Study the craft of writing short fiction, poetry, novels, screenplays, creative non-fiction and digital writing.

• Learn from our team of practising and published writers.

• Build your degree around your interests.

• Engage with contemporary issues in your writing such as climate change, race and sexuality.

• Experience regular readings from guest writers.

• Meet and talk with agents and editors at our annual publishing panel.

In your first year, you will be introduced to the writing process through modules which help you develop a notebook, tap your own experience and engage with the wider world for material. You will also begin to learn the craft of Poetry, Prose and Life Writing. You will also take two critical English modules to widen your knowledge of the tradition. In year two, you will deepen your practice of Poetry, Short fiction and Life Writing in detail. You will take modules in Children’s Fiction. There will also be the opportunity to take a module in Writing for TV. Once again, you will take two critical modules designed to complement your work in poetry and short fiction. By year three, we feel you will know what you want to say and how you want to say it.

You will therefore be able to choose from a range of modules such as: Writing the Novel, Writing the Short Story, Screenwriting, Advanced Poetry, Writing for Children, Writing for the Stage, Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction, YA Fiction, Flash Fiction, Digital Writing and Writing Place and Environment. The Work Placement module allows you to develop your skills in a work environment, for example by working with a community group on a writing project.

Our creative writing courses are predominately assessed through portfolios of creative work. Critical modules are assessed through essays and presentations. The writing placement module will be assessed through a reflective report.