Creative Writing

About this course

Creative writing as a discipline takes the impulse to tell stories, make meaning, and find language for experience seriously as an intellectual and artistic project. It is concerned not just with producing texts but with understanding how they work: how narrative creates tension and meaning, how voice and perspective shape the reader's experience, how the choice of form is itself a kind of argument. A university creative writing programme combines practice, in which you write and receive feedback on your work, with critical reading, in which you examine how published writers have solved the problems you are encountering in your own work. At the University of Essex this three-year full-time programme takes a broad multi-genre approach, working across and between fiction, poetry, non-fiction, psychogeography, performance writing, and other forms. You will explore the full range of creativ

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 50% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 68 / 100Customer service occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 15% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 30 / 100Managers, directors and senior officials · 5% of graduatescards →

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