How do you become a better writer? On this course, you'll develop your creative and critical writing and discover the links between literature and visual culture, science, and politics. Your final project lets you complete an extended piece of imaginative writing. You'll be guided by our award-winning novelists, journalists and playwrights.

The creative writing degree allows you to choose from Creative Writing and English options each year, building your knowledge of a range of genres and traditions. We'll encourage you to make connections between your critical and creative practice throughout the course.

We will also support your professional practice with:

• an arts ambassador scheme
• regular readings and writers' events
• paid internships in arts organisations

Our English graduates have progressed to careers including:

• administration
• advertising
• business
• creative writing
• government, including the civil service
• journalism
• marketing
• media
• publishing
• public relations
• teaching
• translation