Creative Writing

**Reasons to choose Kingston**<br/>- Many of our graduates have had their work published. Recently, Oyinkan Braithwaites multi-award winning debut novel My Sister, The Serial Killer, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019.<br/><br/><br/>- This course covers a range of formats, including digital writing, fiction and creative non-fiction, poetry, and screenwriting.<br/><br/><br/>- Workshops will allow you to hone your writing craft, while lectures and seminars will give you the tools you need to develop your own creativity.<br/><br/><br/>- To help you master the kinds of writing that interest you most, you can choose to study works of literature or film.<br/><br/><br/>- Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the frameworks two new student experience and student outcomes categories. <br/><br/><br/>**About this course**<br/>This course is intellectually stimulating and exciting, designed to provide you with opportunities for creative writing across a variety of genres and media, embracing poetry, prose fiction and non-fiction, professional writing, and writing for radio and screen.<br/><br/>Youll work with published writers, academics and industry professionals on writing for digital media, pitches, exhibitions, reviews, and articles.<br/><br/>You will be able to take modules that allow you to explore a variety of literary topics and texts in depth. If your main interests lie in writing for and about film and television, you can elect to take the degree’s film pathway, on which you’ll study film in depth. <br/><br/>**Future Skills** <br/>Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability. <br/><br/>As you progress through your degree, youll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge. <br/><br/>At Kingston University, were not just keeping up with change, were creating it. <br/><br/>**Career opportunities**<br/>Graduates from this course go on to work in creative writing, digital media, curation, public relations, journalism, publishing, communications, teaching and the civil service. Some of our alumni have become published authors.