Creative Writing society members at a meeting in Portland Café meeting room, Portland Building, University Park

English with Creative Writing BA

University Park Campus, Nottingham, UK

Course overview

Would you love to see your name in print? Are you curious about the creative industries? Or maybe there’s a poem or novel in you that's waiting to come out?

If you want to develop your creative work alongside studying a broad range of English literature, language and drama, this course is for you.

You’ll write both fiction and poetry, exploring different forms and genres along the way, including environmental and political poetics, creative non-fiction, flash fiction and short stories. The work in English studies will strengthen your creative writing. Then, in your second and third years, there’s flexibility to specialise in the areas you enjoy most, including digital storytelling.

Indicative modules

Mandatory

Year 1

Academic Community

Mandatory

Year 1

Beginnings of English

Mandatory

Year 1

Creative Writing Practice

Mandatory

Year 1

Drama, Theatre, Performance

Mandatory

Year 1

Studying Language

Mandatory

Year 1

Studying Literature

Mandatory

Year 2

Poetry: Forms and Conventions

Mandatory

Year 2

Fiction: Forms and Conventions

Optional

Year 2

Shakespeare and Contemporaries on the Page

Optional

Year 2

From Talking Horses to Romantic Revolutionaries: Literature 1700-1830

Optional

Year 2

Modern and Contemporary Literature

Optional

Year 2

Literature and Popular Culture

Optional

Year 2

Texts Across Time

Optional

Year 2

The Psychology of Bilingualism and Language Learning

Optional

Year 2

Language in Society

Optional

Year 2

Texts Across Time

Optional

Year 2

Language Development

Optional

Year 2

Literary Linguistics

Optional

Year 2

Chaucer and his Contemporaries

Optional

Year 2

Old English: Reflection and Lament

Optional

Year 2

Ice and Fire: Myths and Heroes of the North

Optional

Year 2

Names and Identities

Optional

Year 2

Shakespeare and Contemporaries on the Stage

Optional

Year 2

From Stanislavski to Contemporary Performance

Optional

Year 2

Twentieth-Century Plays

Mandatory

Year 3

Advanced Writing Practice: Poetry

Mandatory

Year 3

Advanced Writing Practice: Fiction

Mandatory

Year 3

Creative Writing Dissertation

Optional

Year 3

Contemporary British Fiction

Optional

Year 3

Single-Author Study

Optional

Year 3

The Gothic Tradition

Optional

Year 3

Modern Irish Literature and Drama

Optional

Year 3

One and Unequal: World Literatures in English

Optional

Year 3

Reformation and Revolution: Early Modern literature and drama 1588-1688

Optional

Year 3

Making Something Happen: Poetry and Politics

Optional

Year 3

The Self and the World: Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century

Optional

Year 3

Language and Feminism

Optional

Year 3

Discourse and Power: Health and Business Communication

Optional

Year 3

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Optional

Year 3

Advanced Stylistics

Optional

Year 3

English Place-Names

Optional

Year 3

Old English Heroic Poetry

Optional

Year 3

Songs and Sonnets: Lyric poetry from Medieval Manuscript to Shakespeare and Donne

Optional

Year 3

Dreaming the Middle Ages: Visionary Poetry in Scotland and England

Optional

Year 3

The Viking Mind

Optional

Year 3

Changing Stages: Theatre Industry and Theatre Art

Optional

Year 3

Digital Story: Craft and Technique

Optional

Year 3

Language and the Mind

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About modules

The above is a sample of the typical modules we offer, but is not intended to be construed or relied on as a definitive list of what might be available in any given year. This content was last updated on Wednesday 8 January 2025. Due to timetabling availability, there may be restrictions on some module combinations.

University undergraduate student Cole Pearce studying in Nightingale Hall accommodation's library, University Park. November 5th 2021.

One of the skills that’s definitely useful in my job, is knowing how to communicate with different stakeholders. If I’m talking to an editor about a book, I’m going to have a different conversation with them than I would have with the author. The communication skills which I gained from my course are really invaluable.

Olivia French

English with Creative Writing graduate and Marketing and Communications Manager at HarperCollins Publishers

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