Creative and Professional Writing University of Wolverhampton

Overview

We believe Creative and Professional Writing to be an art, a vocation, a craft, occupation, and practice that can be historicised, theorised, genderised, digitalised and regionalised, and all of our modules are dedicated to offering you the best start to your writing career.

The Creative and Professional Writing programme is offered by  University of Wolverhampton .

Key facts

• With a real emphasis upon employability, we are passionate about nurturing new voices and encourage you to explore the subjects and stories you want to write about. 

• It is why our programme is specifically designed to enable you to take ownership over your own learning from Level 5, giving you the choice of pursuing a specific learning pathway in a particular medium to develop your expertise – poetry, prose, professional – or to continue with the traditional piecemeal approach. 

What's unique about this course?

• With a real emphasis upon employability, we are passionate about nurturing new voices and encourage you to explore the subjects and stories you want to write about.

• This course is one of the few in the country to combine English with creative and professional writing (most exclude the former). Thus there is a real emphasis on employability.

• The Black Country's only dedicated Creative & Professional degree course.

• Extensive calendar of events including the Wolverhampton Literature Festival and workshops run by acclaimed visiting writers.

Potential Career Paths

• Copy Writer

• Technical Writer

• Copy Editor Commissioning Editor

• Proof Reader

• Professional/ Freelance Writer

• Publishing

• Press & Publicity

• Marketing & Sales