Discover English and Creative Writing

Congratulations on your offer

We’re pleased to offer you a place on one of our English and Creative Writing courses. As part of our thriving English and Creative Writing community, you’ll find tutors who are experts in delivering research-informed teaching in this field. The team also actively engage with public audiences and organisations. You’ll also work alongside your tutors in activities that’ll boost your employability and prepare you for life after your degree.

Facilities

You’ll be based in Creative Edge, a state-of-the-art £17m building offering highly contemporary facilities.

In here, you’ll find a lecture theatre, seminar rooms, IT facilities and smaller tutorial spaces. It has everything you need to become a capable, versatile, creative writer and thinker. Creative Edge’s social learning spaces are ideal for passionate discussion with like-minded creatives.

Find out more about the courses we offer

Prepare for your studies

Before starting your studies, you could:

• Take a tour of the UK’s dialects: ehu.ac.uk/ukdialects
• Read more poetry: poetryfoundation.org
• Create a journal and write in it every day

Supporting you

When you become a student here, you’ll be allocated a Personal Tutor. They will be your main source of support in your academic department. They’ll be with you as you progress throughout your degree, supporting you in three areas: professional/career-related support, pastoral support and signposting you to information you need. But they aren’t just there when you need support. They are also there to celebrate your successes, help with planning your progress and much more.

Hear from our students

We seek to make a difference. As well as your informed lectures and seminars, you’ll be encouraged to use your own creativity with no restrictions. But don’t take our word for it. Read what our students have to say to find out more.

I was inspired to study Education and English because the course gave me the opportunity to become an educator of some kind, not necessarily a traditional school teacher which isn’t really the route which I want to go down.

Alice Featherstone

BA (Hons) Education and English

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My favourite part of the course was the opportunity to tailor it to my interests and strengths.

Clare Monaghan

BA (Hons) English

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My advice would be: don’t let fear stop you from taking all the opportunities you can. You’re probably more capable than you think you are.

Lucy Barrett

BA (Hons) Creative Writing and English Literature

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Mature discussions and workshopping enable me to explore views on books and social issues, very useful in my academic work, and life in general.

Leah Maslin

BA (Hons) Creative Writing and English Literature

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All I ever wanted was to find people who wanted to write stories as I did. I remember sitting in the library with friends. We were all writing our own things, and the air felt electric with creativity.

Rosie Bernard

BA (Hons) Creative Writing

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