Literature and Creative Writing

About this course

Literature and creative writing share a deep connection: writers are shaped by everything they have read, and close attention to how other writers work is one of the most productive ways of developing your own craft. A degree that combines both disciplines treats reading and writing not as separate activities but as two aspects of a single creative and critical practice, each enriching the other. You learn to read like a writer, attentive to technique and structure, and to write with the self-awareness of someone who has studied how the best authors achieve their effects. At the University of Essex, this three-year full-time BA takes a distinctive approach to this combination, moving beyond familiar British and American literary traditions to engage with a wider range of influences. You will encounter the study of myth and oral tradition, and you will explore innovative experimental pra

Where its graduates go

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