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BA (Hons) Creative Writing (Online)

  • Duration: 3 or 4 years full time
  • Placement year: Optional 1 year
  • Course code: W801 (UCAS)
  • Institution code: A66 (UCAS)
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Career destinations

Students graduating from BA (Hons) Creative Writing degrees often enter a variety of careers.

A freelance writer will be working on their own creative projects whilst taking on employment as community workshop facilitators, writers-in-residence, and writing to briefs and commissions.

Other career sectors include:

  • Copywriter
  • Social media/digital content writer
  • Marketing
  • Teaching

Alumni from our on-campus BA (Hons) Creative Writing course have entered a variety of careers that shows how our course provides you with the skills to work across forms and genres and helps you to shape your creative journey post-graduation.

Students have gone on to find success in marketing and content creation, teaching, developing writing for publication, facilitating community writing projects, and even writing songs for Stormzy’s latest album.

Many students also go on to undertake further education at postgraduate level.

Visiting tutors

Some content and workshops on the BA (Hons) Creative Writing (Online) course will be facilitated by visiting tutors – published writers and experts in specific subject areas.

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