Bachelor of Arts - Creative Writing and Journalism (Honours)

Program Description

The value of Joint Honours Creative Writing is that your writing stays fresh, whilst receiving additional impetus (and skills) from a complimentary academic discipline. Your writing needs to be fed ideas and varied stimuli, and all the Joint pathways are carefully chosen because they enhance your writing practice.

Creative Writing at DMU enables you to find the creative path that’s right for you. The unique structure means your modules are organised around stimulating themes such as place, identity, and the relations between word, image, and sound. Within these you develop skills in a wide range of forms, including fiction, poetry, screenwriting, creative non-fiction, audio and performance writing, and new media. 

Alongside familiar form and genres such as short stories, free verse, strict form poetry and memoir, you will also have the opportunity to explore screenplays, graphic novel scripts, flash fiction as well as new media and concrete poetry.

By the end of the course you won’t just be writing, you’ll be making your own professional-standard publications for the page and web, and making studio-quality recordings of your own work. Final year voice-coach training will mean you also leave us as confident public performers.

Reasons to study Creative Writing (Joint Honours) BA (Hons) degree at DMU:

• DMU is ranked in the Top 10 for Creative Writing in the UK for ‘overall student satisfaction’, according to The Complete University Guide 2019
• Become part of regional writing networks  and perform and publish your work through events such as our book fair, States of Independence, DMU’s Cultural eXchanges festival, and take advantage of spoken word events.
• Gain practical skills in confident performing, audio recording, and technical skills in digital/print publishing
• Take risks and experiment  in areas of writing you may have not encountered before; such as podcasting, making audio-visual pieces, and multi-linear digital work
• Work beyond the classroom in stimulating settings like an urban walk-workshop, museum trips, and collaborative ghost-story writing sessions in a chapel
• International opportunity through DMU Global where you will have the opportunity for a meaningful international experience