BA Creative Writing

The BA Creative Writing course offered by the University of Essex is a blend of tradition, innovation, and experimentation designed to inspire and challenge budding writers. It aims to produce students who can write with depth, flair, and creativity and who can think critically about the processes and contexts of writing.Course Content: The course engages students with a variety of modules including poetry, short stories, novels, scripts, and creative non-fiction. It allows poems to explore how to create worlds, characters, and voices in fiction, study the history and theory of literature, and tailor their course with a range of options including the psychology of language, teaching English, and in-depth literature topics.Key Modules: Throughout this course, students are expected to take a variety of key modules, such as Introduction to Writing Fiction, Writing Poetry, Critical & Theoretical Approaches, The Story of English, Writing Place, The Art of Story 2, Histories of Writing, Victorian Literature, Modernist Literature, Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial Literature, and American Literature.Accreditations: Not available.Future Careers: This course enables students to pursue a variety of career options ranging from professional writing, publishing, teaching, IT, law, and management, through to academia. Essex has nurtured a long list of notable writers whose books have been published, scripts produced, and prizes won.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.