Creative Writing BA (Hons)

We welcome you if you’re passionate about creative writing, eager to build on your strengths, and excited to discover new skills. You’ll learn from published writers and join a vibrant community of creatives who share your passion for writing.

Our programme is practical, where you learn by doing. Workshops focus on collaborative learning, where you give and receive feedback, draft and revise your work, and reflect critically. Industry-focused skills are integrated throughout, ensuring you develop the confidence to professionally promote, present, and publish your writing.

With an innovative thematic structure, the course encourages you to explore different forms and styles while giving you the flexibility to focus on your areas of interest. Uniquely, each year offers the opportunity to undertake your own self-directed long project, giving you the freedom to develop work that aligns with your creative ambitions.

Key features

• • • You can choose a route through this degree in Film Studies, History, Journalism, or Media, tailoring your studies to your interests and career goals.
    • You’ll learn from successful published writers and become part of a creative and passionate community of fellow writers.
    • The programme is uniquely organised by theme, supporting you in developing your skills across a wide range of writing practices, such as fiction, poetry, memoir, screenwriting, and digital writing.
    • We’ll encourage you to join regional writing networks, participate in spoken word events, and showcase your work at book fairs and festivals, including DMU’s annual States of Independence book festival.
    • You’ll work beyond classroom boundaries in a variety of inspiring settings to enhance your creativity, such as Leicester Gallery at DMU, local museums and landmarks, DMU’s Special Collections archive, and ghost story workshops in a deconsecrated chapel.

• Benefit from block teaching, where most students study one subject at a time. A simple timetable will allow you to really engage with your learning, receive regular feedback and assessments, get to know your course mates and enjoy a better study-life balance.

The course will equip you with a broad range of transferrable skills for careers within and beyond the creative industries including creative thinking, critical analysis, problem solving, research, independent study, editing, digital writing, publishing and proof reading. We will encourage you to think more widely about employability, and to recognise – and articulate to employers – the rich skills you bring to any workplace.

Our graduates go on to careers in a variety of areas such as writing, teaching, publishing and PR, while others undertake further studies such as the Creative Writing MA at DMU.

Graduate, Konnie Colton, is undertaking her master’s at DMU whilst working as an intern at an independent publisher. She said: “The course, the people, the campus everything is brilliant and I have had so much support. I always knew I wanted to do a master’s degree and there was no way I was leaving DMU to study for it anywhere else.”