Overview

Within the English Literature with Creative Writing BA degree delivered by the University of Leeds helps you develop your creativity and sharpen your critical abilities, acquiring valuable skills as both a reader and a writer. You’ll produce creative work across various genres, such as fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. You may also choose modules in specialist genres such as travel and journalistic writing or science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Key Facts

You'll learn how writers of the past and the present have used words and literary forms to express their ideas and engage with their times’ social and cultural issues. 

You’ll encounter historical and modern texts in English from around the globe, which explore themes relevant to how we live today, including race and ethnicity, gender, climate change and nature, social class, disability and wellbeing. 

Learn how to shape language to convey your ideas and experience, craft your writing with other students, and build an individual portfolio of work that will set you on track for a creative or cultural industries career.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Developing Creative Writing
Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation
Poetry: Reading and Interpretation
Race, Writing and Decolonization
Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture
Body Language: Literature and Embodiment
Creative Writing Workshop
Writing Science-fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Page, Publication and Audience

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-28 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-14 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

OR

88

OR

4.5

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PTE Academic

64

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

360 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Leeds, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Language Studies Creative Writing Literature View 266 other Bachelors in Creative Writing in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

OR

88

OR

4.5

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PTE Academic

64

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IELTS

6.5

Prepare for Your English Test

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Other requirements

General requirements

A-level: AAA including English (Language, Literature or Language and Literature).

Other course specific tests:

Where an applicant is taking the EPQ in a relevant subject this might be considered alongside other Level 3 qualifications and may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer.

If you are taking A Levels, this would be ABB at A Level including A in English and grade A in the EPQ.

International

We accept a range of international equivalent qualifications.

Tuition Fees

Living costs

Leeds

United Kingdom

637 - 1103 GBP / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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