English Literature with Creative Writing (Study Abroad) (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

Join a vibrant cultural community

We run many special literary events both on campus but also in spectacular locations such as the medieval Lancaster Castle, the awe-inspiring Priory or the archive-rich Wordsworth Centre at Grasmere in the Lake District. These events include:

• Talks from visiting scholars and authors

• Study retreat day in the Lake District

• Social events such as the October Lecture and May Gathering

Lancaster also has a vibrant and exciting comics scene. We were the first institution to ever appoint a Professor in Graphic Fiction and Comic Art and our students can also benefit from our connection to the Lakes International Comics Art Festival which offers them professional and networking opportunities to develop their work in this field.

These events offer a sense of community and friendship through your studies. However, you can also take the opportunity to be more involved in organising, marketing and hosting these events. You will get to feel a part of something and develop your professional skills at the same time.

Careers

This course offers a way into many professions by ensuring you develop such important work-place skills as researching, drafting, editing, listening, persuading and presenting. Your degree in English Literature with Creative Writing opens a world of opportunities where critical and creative thinking are highly valued.

Our creative writing graduates have gone on to publish their own stories, novels, videogames, graphic novels, and poems with major publishers, and have had their scripts produced in national festivals and on national radio.

Other career destinations are the traditional fields such as publishing, journalism and arts management or becoming an editor, copywriter or librarian.

New and exciting opportunities are emerging here in the creative and cultural industries such as museums, heritage and the arts, literary tourism, podcasting, game-writing, blogging, film, television, and social media. Others have gone on to careers in fields such as:

• Author

• Publishing

• Journalism

• Game-writing

• Copy-writing

• Social media

• Television and the media

• Librarianship

• Art management

Careers such as teaching, law and social work are open to English with Creative Writing graduates via postgraduate programmes or you may wish to further your Literary/ Creative studies with one of our Master’s courses.