Academic IELTS of 6.5 overall, with no element below 5.5
UCAS tariff points: 112-128 for BA (Hons); 48 for BA (Hons) including foundation year.
Level 3 qualifications, English Language/Literature, Creative Writing or similar subjects (A-levels, BTEC Diploma, Access Diploma, IB Diploma, etc.). Grade C required.
General Studies/Native Language accepted when one of three A-levels or equivalent.
Are you a budding novelist, Netflix screenwriter or experimental poet? On this degree, you'll learn the art and craft of writing in all its forms. Taught by published authors, you'll gain a wide range of skills across creative and non-fiction genres. You'll examine how writing can be used to communicate in a range of contexts, with appropriate uses of style, register and form.
You'll take part in masterclasses by industry professionals and join the thriving community of our specialist Writers' Centre. An extended writing project will be on a subject of your choice. You'll also build a professional portfolio and work on real-life industry projects, giving you vital employment experience to prepare you for a career in writing.
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What you will study
This course is intellectually stimulating and exciting, designed to provide you with opportunities for creative writing across a variety of genres and media, embracing poetry, prose fiction and non-fiction, professional writing, and writing for performance on stage, radio and screen.
You'll work with published writers, academics and industry professionals on writing for digital media, pitches, exhibitions, reviews, and articles.
Modules
Each level is made up of four modules each worth 30 credit points. Typically a student must complete 120 credits at each level.
Year 1
In your first year, you'll be introduced to the field of creative writing through a variety of practical workshops and seminars. You'll attend interactive lectures, small-group discussions and individual writing exercises.
Core modules
Practical Journalism 1
Introduction to Creative Writing I: The Writer's Toolkit
Writing that Works
Introduction to Communication
Year 2
In the second year, there is an increasing emphasis on private study and independent writing.
You'll develop the appropriate skills, techniques, and practices in order to produce a sustained piece of writing in poetry and fiction.
Core modules
Style and Meaning
Independent Creative Writing
Optional modules
Content, Form and Creativity
Magazine Journalism
Write Action: Introduction to Dramatic Writing
Introduction to Screenwriting
Transforming Realities: Innovation and Social Change in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature
Final year
In your final year, you'll have the opportunity to complete an extended writing project on a subject of your choice, and to work on real-life industry projects, giving you vital employment experience.
Through optionality, both at assessment and module level, the programme will enable you to tailor your degree to suit your interests and employment or enterprise goals. Workshops will allow you to hone your writing craft, while lectures and seminars will give you the tools you need to develop your own creativity.
Core modules
Dissertation: Creative and Professional Writing
Professional Writing in Practice
Optional modules
Special Study: Literary Journalism and War
Beyond Text: Advanced Dramatic Writing
Special Author
Black and Asian Writing
Making Shakespeare: Text, Performance and Adaptation
Gender and Sexuality
Special Study: Narrative Techniques in Popular Fiction
Creative Writing Special Study: Get a Life: Forms of (Auto)biography
Creative Writing Special Study: Innovations in Poetry and Prose
Box Set Drama: Writing for Television
Students on this course go on to become published authors, and work in a range of written communication roles including creative writing, digital media, curation, public relations, journalism, publishing, communications, teaching and the civil service.
Insurance - Single: 300 (£) per year
