Creative Writing and English Literature with a Year Abroad

About this course

Creative writing and English literature share a foundational conviction that language matters and that how something is written shapes what it means. English literature brings you into close and critical engagement with the works of other writers, developing your capacity for close reading, interpretation, and the construction of reasoned arguments about texts. Creative writing invites you to develop as a writer yourself, working across fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and other forms under the guidance of practising writers and through the sustained discipline of workshopping your own work with peers. Together, the two develop a sophisticated understanding of craft that is both analytical and productive. The University of East Anglia has a particularly distinguished reputation in creative writing, with a programme that has produced many of the most significant British writers of the last

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 52% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 68 / 100Customer service occupations · 6% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 6% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 15% of graduatescards →

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