Creative Writing BA

Our Creative Writing BA course has been designed to inspire high levels of creativity, initiative and originality in the design, production, interpretation and analysis of creative writing along with a chance to develop interdisciplinary projects.

Course details

In your first year you’ll gain a solid grounding in how to write fiction, drama and poetry, and study world literature.

Mode of study: 4-5 days a week
Intake: Intakes: September
Course length: 3-4 years
Course fee: £9250 per year
Location: London campus

Brunel University London

Course overview

You will be taught the key genres of creative writing by some of the most talented and original writers working today. Between them, they’ve published over 100 books, produced countless scripts for TV, radio and film, and won umpteen awards. The teaching team includes renowned authors like Bernardine Evaristo, Hannah Lowe and Max Kinnings.

From week one you’ll write and interact with your peer group of creative writers. You will share ideas and give constructive feedback to others on their creative work.

Benefits

Active collaborative learning
Face-to-face discussion
Outstanding student support
Learn from experienced tutors
Make full use of facilities
Access support
Careers advice

Entry requirements

GCE A-level BBC.

BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma DMM in any subject.

BTEC Level 3 Diploma DM in any subject, with an A-Level at grade C.

BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma M in any subject, with A-Levels grade BB .

International Baccalaureate Diploma 29 points.

Careers

A creative writing degree from Brunel is your passport to a wide range of career destinations within the literary and creative industries.

Our graduates are working in the arts, publishing, journalism, advertising, marketing and teaching. They have successful careers as novelists, journalists, screenwriters and travel writers. Others opt to follow Brunel’s career-focused MA in Creative Writing.

Modules

In the first year you will start building a portfolio of your creative writing. You will follow your interests in the second year and master the craft of creative writing in your final year. English is studied in all three years. Your final year major project is an in-depth study of a creative writing topic of your choice.

Year one

CW1700 – Creative Writing Practice
CW1701 The Writer’s Toolkit
EN1604 – World Literature 1: Going Global
EN1605 – World Literature 2: Travels and Migrations

Year two

Optional

EN2610 – Contemporary British and Irish Fiction
EN2605 – Genre Fiction
EN2606 – Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy
CW2600 – Life Writing
EN2014 – Modernism
EN2001 – The Nineteenth-Century Novel
EN2011 – Post-Colonial Writing
EN2021 – Romanticism and Revolution
EN2019 – Screenwriting
EN2002 – Shakespeare: Text and Performance
EN2017 – Writing the Short Story
EN2603 – Writing Contemporary Poetry

Year Three

EN3000 Creative Writing Special Project
EN3613 – The Creative Industries

Optional

EN3619 – Chaucer to Shakespeare
CW3602 – Journeying the Self through Psychology and Expressive Arts
EN3605 – Modern and Contemporary Lesbian Literature
EN3612 – Performance Poetry
EN3609 – Post-War and Late Twentieth-Century Literature, 1945-2001
AH3600 – Psychogeography
EN3039 – The Muslim World in Early Modern English Literature
EN3617 – Violence
EN3022 – Victorian Literature and Culture
CW3600 – Writing Film and Television
EN3028 – Writing Modern Fiction
EN3604 – Writing Ireland
EN3612 Writing Poetry for Performance