BA (Hons) Creative Writing*

112 UCAS points

Your learning will be through a mixture of lectures, practical workshops and seminars. Your course also provides an opportunity to undertake work-based learning through a placement. We embed flexible opportunities for you to access your curriculum including recorded lectures, blended learning, on-campus delivery and intensive delivery of some modules. 

This course will prepare you to critically analyse texts and develop strong creative writing skills to craft for a variety of texts, genres and media, as well as utilise digital tools and platforms to enhance creative writing practices.  You will develop strategies to pitch and present creative work to publishers and agents and manage and negotiate creative projects through strong collaboration and communication.

Graduates are supported into a range of career paths, with the most direct routes being novelist, poet, playwright, and screenwriter, as these align with the creative outputs of the course. However, students can also move into editing and proofreading, where their attention to detail and revision skills are valuable, or into content writing and copywriting, which leverage their ability to craft engaging, persuasive texts. The increasing relevance of digital media makes roles such as digital content creator, social media manager or communications officer natural fits, whereas journalism and podcast writing draw on their strong research and story-making abilities. Other possible careers include script reading, advertising creative, publishing assistant, creative writing tutoring, and arts administration, as these are jobs that require creativity and story-making skills. More specialised careers like technical writing, PR, magazine column writing, travel writing, and blogging, are also possible, though students may benefit from additional training or further study.