Creative Writing and English Literature BA (Hons)

Immerse yourself in classic and contemporary works of all kinds at Edge Hill. Explore key theories and analytical approaches to literature. Use these ideas to develop your understanding of a writer’s impact on society as you uncover what drives and inspires them.

Live the writer’s life. You’ll discover how to read as a writer and develop your own writing philosophy and poetics. Studying this degree at Edge Hill will educate and inspire. We want to empower you to reach for the skies in your own creative writing.

To help you do this, we have a wide range of extra curricular opportunities, such as The Dame Janet Suzman Playwriting Prize, the Rhiannon Evans Poetry Prize and the opportunity to become a student intern on a range of projects including the internationally recognised Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Here are Edge Hill, through both module work and extracurricular opportunities working on real life projects, we place an emphasis on demystifying the publishing and producing world to help you to gain an understanding of how to get your own work out there and to find the job in the field of arts and humanities that is right for you.

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Your future career

Careers and employability are integrated throughout the degree with modules focussed on developing employability skills. Industry contacts and practical experience are important, so we offer networks in areas like publishing, festival and event organisation and museum curation.

You can also choose a life in academia. Take a PGCE to go into teaching or pursue a Masters in creative writing.

Possible careers includes roles such as:

• Community Artist
• Writer – in all forms
• Production Editor
• Content Creator
• Publisher
• Marketing
• Whole School Literacy Coordinator