Bachelor of Arts - Creative Writing (Honours)

BA (Hons) Creative Writing is a practice degree: sustained workshop teaching across fiction, poetry, scriptwriting and creative non-fiction, supported by reading as a writer and by professional-practice modules on the publishing industry.

Workshops demand production and revision on a schedule, which is the discipline that separates writers who finish work from those who only start it, and critique culture builds the ability to take editorial feedback without defensiveness — a professional necessity.

Genre breadth is deliberate: students who arrive certain they are novelists frequently discover that scriptwriting or narrative for games suits them better, and those markets pay considerably more reliably. The portal export lists January windows alongside every September cycle, five entry points in total.

One structural advantage of the single-subject route deserves highlighting: students spend three years writing across multiple forms rather than dividing attention with a second discipline, which suits applicants already certain that writing is the point. The genre breadth matters commercially too, since scriptwriting and narrative design for games pay considerably more reliably than literary fiction, and students frequently discover an aptitude for them only through workshop exposure. Applicants should arrive with a writing habit already established, because the course develops existing practice rather than creating it from nothing, and should expect their work to be publicly critiqued from the first term.

Paid destinations cluster in copywriting, content and editorial work at £19,000–£24,000, with creative practice built alongside. Graduates hold Graduate Route permission of 18 months under the rules applying to post-2026 applications, and dependants are excluded on taught routes.