COURSE DESCRIPTION: 

The best writers are great readers. Explore the principles of great literature. Let your imagination take flight and develop your own creative voice, producing short stories, autobiographical writing, poetry and script.  You will be taught by award-winning writers (poets, fiction writers and playwrights), and graduate with a recognised degree and employable skills in literary research and creative communications.

The final year offers a chance to work on an extended creative writing project, where you will collaborate with your peers to produce an anthology and plan a related launch event.  In addition, you can choose from a range of other modules in literature, including Life Writing and Experimental Writing.  Across three years, the course introduces you to a range of literary and writing contexts, enabling you to develop the ability to respond creatively to the world around you.

Through inspired teaching and intellectual debate, plus day to day interaction with award-winning authors and playwrights, a rolling programme of media industry professionals, published lecturers and world-renowned researchers, we will nurture your passion by developing your creative and critical thinking.

There are fantastic opportunities to discover who you are as a writer by studying abroad. We currently have nine Erasmus exchange programmes, including locations in Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Spain and Ireland.

A collaboration with multinational services network PwC granted our history and English students exclusive access to the company’s archives to compile a unique collection of letters sent during WWI.