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BA (Hons) Creative Writing (Online)

On this online BA (Hons) Creative Writing course, you'll master the writing process, from research and ideas generation to editing a final draft. You'll draw inspirations from industry professionals, a wide range of published material, and collaborative feedback.

Overview

This course will run from September 2025.

Stories are at the heart of how we communicate and understand the world.

By studying BA (Hons) Creative Writing (Online) with AUB, you'll gain the skills to join the next generation of storytellers. Creative writing is becoming more and more important. It's just as integral to arts and entertainment as it is to business and commerce. A career in creative writing could see you working in publishing, a literary agency or in education.

And that’s just the start. Whether you want to create fiction, scripts, poems, or non-fiction, we’ll help you turn writing into a career.

BA (Hons) Creative Writing (Online) course information

BA (Hons) Creative Writing (Online) offers an exciting opportunity for you to explore your passion for telling stories in any genre or form of your choice (including fiction, poetry, script and creative non-fiction).

You’ll build an appropriate portfolio of creative, critical and transferable skills and leave the course with a significant body of creative work, supported by critical research, as well as an awareness of industry and employment in your specialist areas of interest.

On this course, you’ll learn to draw inspiration from the world around you, and existing literature, in order to develop your own voice. Through a range of exciting projects, conducted online, you’ll explore the whole writing process – from ideas generation to final draft. A career in creative writing could see you working in publishing, literary agencies, freelance writing, or in education – and that’s just the start. Whether you want to create prose, scripts, poetry or non-fiction, we’ll offer you an insight into the writing and publishing industries in order to help you with the next stage of your career.

With online talks from published writers and industry professionals, you’ll be able to network and build contacts. When you graduate, you’ll have a strong portfolio and a professional network to kickstart your career.

Course duration

3 years (full-time)

Placement

Option of a 1-year placement

UCAS course code

W801

UCAS institution code

A66

Fees (home/international)

£6,750* per year

* £100 recurring annual costs for associated course materials should be considered.

Varying costs – optional face-to-face events (one annual on-campus event).

Placement year

All undergraduate courses at AUB offer an optional placement year, to be taken between your second and third years of study.

If you’re unsure about this optional placement, you don’t need to decide now. Once you’re here and studying with us, the course team will discuss the placement options with you, so when the time comes, you can make a decision that’s right for you.

Meet the BA (Hons) Creative Writing (Online) course team

Headshot for J Cole.
Dr James Cole Course Leader/Senior Lecturer

BA, MA, PGCAP, PhD

Email me jcole@aub.ac.uk
Dr Natalie Scott Lecturer in Creative Writing

PhD, MA, BA (Hons), PGCE, CAPF

Dr Kevan Manwaring Programme Leader – MA Creative Writing (online)

PhD, MA, BA, FHEA

Ronan Kelly Lecturer - BA (Hons) Creative Writing

MA, BA, DELTA, PGCHE, SFHEA

Email me rkelly@aub.ac.uk

"We’re extremely excited to offer this remote learning experience, drawing on our rich tradition of writing and storytelling at AUB. Based on the incredible success and popularity or our on campus Creative Writing course, we want to provide greater access to even more students. We’re looking forward to growing our writing community through expanding into digital spaces and we can’t wait to hear your stories and see where they take you."

James Cole, Course Leader

Application process

This course will run from September 2025.

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Teaching, learning and assessment

The course has been designed to offer you experiences in a diverse mix of learning and teaching methods to ensure your time at the university is both stimulating and enriching.

Each unit is assessed separately, and the assessment forms part of the unit. Assessment both provides a measure of your achievement and also gives you regular feedback on how your learning is developing.

What our students do

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/Content Writer
  • Marketing
  • Teaching

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

Trips and visits

During the BA (Hons) Creative Writing (Online) course, there'll be an optional annual visit to AUB offering you an exciting extra-curricular opportunity to meet peers, explore AUB, and celebrate Dorset’s literary heritage including visits to landmarks associated with writers such as Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Thomas Hardy.

This residential programme will not be financed by the course fees and is entirely optional.

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Through this course, you'll gain the skills to join the next generation of creative storytellers.

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