(Hons) Creative and Professional Writing with English Literatures University of Wolverhampton

Overview

This (Hons) Creative and Professional Writing with English Literatures programme at University of Wolverhampton is devised to enable writers to write and read widely around their subject; to develop skills, talent, and style within a variety of writing contexts, creative and professional. 

This is all enhanced by the dual focus of analysing existing literatures in terms of genre and subject and understanding how historical contexts continue to apply to our writing today. 

Education

• Led by a team of active published writers and leading academics in their fields of expertise, we work to the ethos that ‘as you write it, we are writing too’, offering an inclusive and supportive environment as one cohesive learning, reading, and writing community. 

• We are aware of what writers need to do in terms of the business of writing; how our knowledge and passion for literatures enables our practice, and therefore offer a continuous platform of support and guidance alerting students to the many career routes a writer can pursue. 

• The Learning Pathways programme will enable you to take ownership of your own learning from Level 5, allowing you to either pursue a more specialist approach to your writing, mastering your medium, work across the different forms and styles of writing we study, or opt for literatures-based modules to complement practice. 

• The programme will introduce you to the relevant concepts and theories associated with writing and readerships, and encourage you to work across disciplines via our collaborative partnerships with the School of Art.

Potential Career Paths

• Author/Novelist

• Copywriter

• Journalist

• Editor

• Content Writer

• Technical Writer

• Scriptwriter for TV, Film, or Theatre

• Public Relations Specialist

• Marketing Communications Specialist

• Social Media Manager

• Blogger/Vlogger

• Publisher

• Literary Agent

• Proofreader

• Grant/Proposal Writer