BA (Hons) English and Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University

BA (Hons) English and Creative Writing at Manchester Met lets you combine your love of reading with your passion for writing. You’ll study literature across genres, cultures and time periods, while also learning to craft your own stories, poems, scripts or digital pieces. From the start, you’ll be taught by award-winning poets, novelists, screenwriters and digital creators from the Manchester Writing School – one of the most successful writing schools in the UK.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities  |  Department: School of English  |  Duration: 3 years full-time; 4 years with placement year or study abroad  |  Study mode: full-time, placement year available  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Across this course, you’ll explore fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and emerging digital forms, while gaining critical skills that deepen your understanding of how writing works both on the page and in the world. Teaching is led by Manchester Writing School’s team of internationally recognised writers, poets and critics, many of whom are award-winning and actively publishing across genres. Year 1 core: Reading and Writing Mancunia (Literature), Framing Narrative, Crafting Worlds: The Art of Storytelling, Crafting Images: Language and Technique. Year 2 core: The Art of Adaptation: Remake/Remodel, Literature, Theory, and Culture, Make It Now: Creative Workshop; options: American Spaces, Commercial Storytelling: Crafting for a Market, Shakespeare and Adaptation: Stage and Screen, Writing After the British Empire. Year 3 core: The Independent Project (Creative-Critical), Shared Futures; options: Contemporary Global Literatures, The Global Nineteenth Century, The Gothic, Immersive Dramas, Reading Games, Making Games, Space, Place and Environment, Voicing the Contemporary.

Career pathways

Graduates enter a wide range of careers, especially media work and teaching, where their transferable skills are particularly relevant. Recent graduates have gone into diverse fields such as: Education.

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