Choose your own path through the course, focusing either on creative or literary critical writing, or a combination of both.

You’ll work with practising authors, poets, and playwrights – as well as leaders in the field of literary criticism – to develop your own distinctive voice. You’ll develop as a writer, not only in the classroom, but in the world, and you’ll be advised on the routes you can take to publication. Modules with a more academic focus allow you to engage with literary theory and academic studies of influential writers’ work.

Graduates from this course can go on to work as:

• Writer – many of our students have gone on to successfully publish in journal and book form
• Editor – a number of our graduates now work in publishing and on journals in an editorial role
• Teacher of creative writing – several of our students have gone on to teach, or have enhanced their own practice.
• Community Arts Manager – some of our students have gone on to run community arts organisations.