BA Hons Creative Writing

If you want to get serious about creative writing, Manchester Writing School with a proven reputation for developing gifted students into professional writers is the ideal place to start. The journey to published writing starts here. Embark on our Creative Writing degree and from the very start you ll study and practise the art and craft of writing in a wide range of established and new forms, from prose fiction and poetry to screenwriting and writing for computer games. You ll learn from established poets, novelists and scriptwriters at the renowned Manchester Writing School writers who know what it takes to turn a flash of inspiration into award-winning words on the page. The course also has a strong emphasis on professional development and in our practical Beyond the Page unit you ll look at professional practice in the literary industry and working in the cultural industry in general. In our workshops, you ll study the formal aspects of creative writing as well as putting your own skills into practice.