Creative Writing

Creative writing is the practice of making meaning through language, whether in fiction, poetry, life writing, screenwriting, or forms that resist easy categorisation. It asks you to be a reader as well as a writer, to understand how craft choices produce effects in an audience, and to develop your own voice through sustained, reflective practice. Far from being an indulgence, writing as a discipline trains close attention, imaginative empathy and the capacity to communicate complex inner experience in ways that connect with others.

It is one of the oldest and most adaptable human arts, and studying it seriously means engaging with both its long traditions and its present-day possibilities.

On this three-year full-time degree at Anglia Ruskin University, you will develop your writing through intensive workshop practice, where you share and critique work alongside peers and tutors who are themselves practising writers. You will read widely across genres and historical periods, learning how writers have solved the problems of structure, voice, character and form in different ways. You will also build the entrepreneurial skills needed to sustain a portfolio career, whether through freelancing, residencies, community projects or combining writing with editorial and publishing work.

You become part of a vibrant writing community that includes postgraduate students and alumni, extending your professional network from early in your studies. Typical entry is around 104 UCAS tariff points.

Careers for Creative Writing graduates are genuinely varied. Many work as novelists, poets, screenwriters, games writers or journalists, often combining commissions with teaching, mentoring or editing. Others move into publishing, literary agencies, public relations, arts administration or content creation for digital platforms.

The communication, critical thinking and self-direction that writing demands are transferable to almost any creative or knowledge-based profession, and postgraduate routes include MFA programmes, creative PhDs and research into writing and pedagogy.