Creative Writing

This creative writing degree uses the study of great writing from different periods and cultures to help you grow as a writer.

Our degree in creative writing explores the written word across a wide variety of forms and genres. As well as studying fiction and poetry, you'll produce work for stage and screen and for online media.

With option modules, you can expand your studies to include a foreign language or specialise in particular fields of writing, such as journalism. By the end of the course, you should have your own writing style and creative process and have the ability to critically analyse the writing of others.

Popular career options for our creative writing graduates range from professional writing, research and journalism to publishing and arts administration.

What you should know about this course

• Develop your fundamental writing skills in a range of disciplines, while specialising through a choice of options

• Engage with a wide range of texts from many periods and cultures

• Expand the scope and depth of your writing across a variety of formats while incorporating courses from other subjects

• Enables you to undertake research and develop the skills to critically evaluate texts and contexts

• Study and create writing across a variety of genres and media, professional writing, and writing for performances.