Creative Writing

“It’s a livewire of eclectic entertainment”

On February 8th creative juices will be flowing in abundance at the The White Star in Stoke for Creative Writing’s Open Mic Night.

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• Explore new, challenging and exciting literary forms and texts with like-minded enthusiast
• Develop your creative talents in a range of literary forms
• Be taught by academics and writers with expertise in all forms of writing
  

• Read Creative Writing course information (PDF, file size: 320.93KB)

"The course taught me a lot about creative freedom and discipline. I learned how to write from different perspectives.” Sarah Fields

This award is available as both a single honours and joint honours. It allows you to explore your own skills in all aspects of creative writing. It enables you to develop your own distinctive creative voice in the genre that suits you best, and to master the techniques to allow your writing to achieve its maximum potential.

The aim of this course is to promote independent learning right from the beginning. In your first semester you will encounter some of the best journalism, poetry, drama and fiction. You will review fellow students’ work and discuss your writing within groups to sharpen your critical analysis. You will find that you are working with fellow enthusiasts eager to share their interests with you.

In the second year of the course you will be encouraged to be a little more experimental, while still working within the main literary genres, working closely with a tutor. The teaching is informal, in workshops and group activities.

In the third year you will develop an extensive project in a literary form of your own choosing.
A distinctive element of this degree is the opportunities it provides for you to gain work experience as part of your academic programme. In the second and third years, you can choose placements in schools, libraries, local newspapers and publishing companies.

Booklet:Information for prospective students (PDF, file size: 63.65KB)

Creative writing graduates bring with them oral and writing skills much valued by employers. Graduates find employment in schools, personnel and other managerial roles, journalism, further and higher education, marketing and publicity, social work, the civil service and in libraries as archivists, and in the community.

• BA(Hons) Creative Writing Programme Specification (PDF, file size: 154.18KB)

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