Creative Writing in the Highlands and Islands

About this course

Creative writing in the Highlands and Islands is a programme shaped by its place. The landscape of the Scottish Highlands, Islands, and the north and west of Scotland, its weather, its history, its languages, and its communities, has generated a remarkable body of literature across the centuries, and studying creative writing in this context means engaging with that material as both reader and practitioner. The programme takes place within UHI's distinctive distributed model of higher education, which links campuses and learning centres across the region, and it draws on the literary and cultural richness of the area while also engaging with the broader traditions of creative writing in English and Gaelic. At the University of the Highlands and Islands, you will develop your writing practice over four years full-time, working across poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and potentially drama an

Where its graduates go

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