Creative and Professional Writing

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 .

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. 

Taught by a dedicated team of published writers with national reputations with an as you write it, we’re writing too ethos, we offer a variety of specialist modules that draw from our own practice and expertise including Writing, Region and Identity, Geo-Poetics and Eco-Narratives, Crime Writing, and Children’s Literature – which includes the opportunity to work on a writing project with an illustrator from the School of Art. In your final year, alongside your Independent Study Project, we have the unique opportunity to not only begin a novel in semester 1, but to continue working on that novel and perhaps towards completion, with a practising novelist throughout semester 2. 

We also offer a dedicated Writing Week where you will have access to guest authors, industry speakers, and masterclasses, and be encouraged to write for personal projects. There is also the opportunity to perform your own work at the various Literature Festivals we partner in the region and to join us for our End of Semester panel events discussing the subjects that challenge us writers today.

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.

• Our creative pathways allow students to tailor their own degrees

• Academic expertise, taught by published and continuing-to-be-published novelists, short story writers and poets.

• A department that inspires and nurtures, celebrating success and achievement, where future creative careers are at the centre of our teaching.

• Tackling a broad range of creative and professional writing strategies to encourage experimentation, critical engagement and ever-improving creative writing practice.