Creative Writing Including Foundation

**Reasons to choose Kingston**<br/><br/><br/>- Many of our graduates have had their work published. Recently, Oyinkan Braithwaite’s 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, creative non-fiction, prose writing, poetry, and dramatic writing.<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/>- 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/><br/>Are you a budding novelist, Netflix screenwriter or experimental poet? On this degree, you’ll learn the art and craft of writing in all its forms. Taught by published authors, you’ll gain a wide range of skills across creative and non-fiction genres.<br/><br/>You’ll examine how writing can be used to communicate in a range of contexts, with appropriate uses of style, register and form. You’ll take part in masterclasses by industry professionals and join the thriving community of our specialist Writers’ Centre.<br/><br/>An extended writing project will be on a subject of your choice. You’ll also build a professional portfolio and work on real-life industry projects, giving you vital employment experience to prepare you for a career in writing.<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.