Course Overview
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 the first idea, to early drafts, through to the final finished piece of work.
Learn from our team of practicing and published poets, short story writers, novelists, dramatists, and screenwriters, all of whom have extensive experience in the industry. You will have the opportunity to learn, and then specialize in, a wide range of creative writing disciplines including fiction, novels, screenplays, and creative non-fiction.
Key Facts
- Full-time- 3 years
- Start Date- September
Entry requirements
- UCAS – 96-112 tariff points from A levels or combination with AS / EPQ / BTEC/ Cambridge Technical.
- A-Levels- BBC-CCC
- Access to HE Diploma- Pass with 12 level 3 credits worth of English units at Merit.
- IELTS- 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5.
Careers
Our Creative Writing graduates are highly valued by employers for their strong problem-solving and communication skills and often continue into a variety of careers.
Career paths include:
- Novelist
- Publishing
- Teaching
- Journalism
- Copywriting
- Marketing
Course Content
- Source and Exploration
- Creating Characters
- The Writer’s Notebook
- Literature Now: Reading and Writing the Present Moment
- Introduction to Writing Poetry
- Introduction to Writing Short Fiction
- Creative Non-Fiction: Starting from the Self
- Storytelling in Visual Culture
- Creative Writing: Poetry, Form and Freedom
- Prose Fiction: The Dynamics of Change
- Poetry: 1300 to the Present
- Experiments in Fiction: Magic, Detection, Sci-Fi and Beyond
- Fiction for Children
- Creative Writing Non-Fiction: Writing Place
- Creative Writing Non-Fiction: Writing Lives
- Agents of Change: Women’s Writing in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Writing for the Screen
- Fairy Tales: Early Modern to Postmodern
- Dissertation in Creative Writing
- Writing the Novel
- Making it Strange: Writing the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Modern Gothic Novel
- Writing Flash Fiction
- Unforgettable Corpses: Literature, Cultural Memory and the First World War
- Digital Writing: Writing for the Community of Strangers
- Writing, Environment and Ecocriticism
- Contemporary Short Fiction: Writing the Here and Now
