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Creative Writing at University of Hull is friendly, inclusive and supportive, and characterised by the internationally excellent research that informs our postgraduate degree supervision.
Our academic staff have expertise in all literary periods, from Early Modern to 21st century literature. We have renowned expertise in medieval literature and medievalism, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, early modern literature and politics, 19th-century studies (particularly the novel and the visual arts), modern and contemporary literature (particularly poetry and fiction), genre fiction (gothic, crime and science fiction), and creative writing.
At University of Hull , we offer two research options for postgraduate students – MRes English (Literature and Creative Writing pathways) or a PhD (English or Creative Writing).
- You have access to the superb facilities of the newly refurbished Brynmor Jones Library, as well as our Graduate School.
- PhD students have exclusive use of the library’s Postgraduate Lounge. Research is strongly interdisciplinary and enhanced by the research networks of its centre including the Andrew Marvell Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
- Training in subject-specific research skills and methodologies is provided by the department, on top of the University’s Postgraduate Training Scheme.
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- Medieval literature
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- 18th and 19th Century
- Modern and Contemporary
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- You should submit a sample of your written work in the relevant subject of at least 4000 words (for MA by Research) and at least 10,000 words (for PhD).
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Transform your passion for reading into the ability to produce prose worthy of public recognition. Whatever your genre of preference, be it literary fiction, nonfiction, or the likes of fantasy, mystery or romance – you will have the opportunity to hone your creative writing skills and discover the techniques seminal writers have used to significant effect:
push your creative boundaries and give shape to a strong and original creative voice
expand your knowledge of the literary canon and acquire the art of reading as a literary writer
gain an in-depth knowledge of structure which will help you towards a deeper understanding of your writing process
become conversant with a range of textual elements such as the use of dialogue, point of view, perspective and sensory detail and apply learned technique to your preferred writing genre
take your place within the international creative writing community. Critique the work of others and engender the view of published writers as colleagues from who you can learn
develop your practice as a creative writer, understand the editing and re-drafting process necessary to produce prose of a publishable standard.
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English at Hull is friendly, inclusive and supportive, and characterised by the internationally excellent research that informs our postgraduate degree supervision. Our academic staff have expertise in all literary periods, from Early Modern to 21st century literature. We have renowned expertise in medieval literature and medievalism, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, early modern literature and politics, 19th-century studies (particularly the novel and the visual arts), modern and contemporary literature (particularly poetry and fiction), genre fiction (gothic, crime and science fiction), and creative writing.
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Hull’s been called the country’s “most poetic city”. Renowned poets and writers from Andrew Marvell to Philip Larkin, Stevie Smith to Tom Paulin, J.R.R. Tolkien to Winifred Holtby, all have ties to the University and city.
We’ll teach you how to harness the power of words to bring about positive change. You’ll work on real-world projects, and study global literature from medieval to contemporary.
Our current writing scene is buzzing. Join our thriving English Society and engage with world-leading authors. And share your unique voice at regular open mics and in student-run magazines.
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About this course
You’ll hone your writing craft through practical workshops and seminar discussions. Developing core skills in characterisation, storytelling and creating a sense of place. And you'll experiment with different genres and forms. From fantasy and science fiction, to scriptwriting and short stories, to poetry and non-fiction.
You’ll also gain a solid grounding in English and American literature. From the medieval and Renaissance eras through to #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. You’ll cover a wide range of poetry, short fiction, drama and novels. And you’ll debate urgent issues including the environment and social justice.
There's a lot to get involved in outside of the lecture theatre, too. You can join our active, student-led English Society and HUWrites. HUWrites provides a platform for performance with showcases and student-led podcasts. You’ll also get the chance to design, edit and publish with our in-house magazines, Document 1 and Hull Scribbler .
Throughout your degree, you’re expected to study for 1,200 hours per year. That’s based on 200 hours per 20 credit module. And it includes scheduled hours, time spent on placement and independent study. How this time is divided across the year varies and depends on the module you are studying.
How you'll be assessed depends on the course you study, and the modules you choose. You may be assessed through a mix of examinations, coursework, presentations and group projects.
Choose your modules
Each year, you’ll study modules worth a certain number of credits, and you need 120 credits per year. Most modules are 20 credits – so you’ll study six modules each year. Some longer modules, such as a dissertation, are worth more. In these cases, you’ll study fewer modules - but the number of credits will always add up to 120. Some modules are compulsory, some are optional, so you can build a course that’s right for you.
- Second year
The Writer’s Toolkit
‘The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms’ – Muriel Rukeyser. This module will help you to nourish the writer within you, and introduce you to the key concepts that will allow your imagination to flourish through writing exercises, workshops and advice from published writers.
Exploring English
In this introductory module you will focus on the key skills needed to help you transition from your pre-university studies to the work that you will do at university. You'll learn how to collaborate with your peers in practical skills workshops and start building up an academic support network. Your tutors will monitor your individual progress by means of an e-portfolio.
Poetry, Past and Present
Discover English-language poetry from across the globe – poetry that crosses continents and cultural perspectives and gives voice to the complexities of gender and sexuality. Learn about the key poetic concepts of metre and rhyme and about different verse forms, including sonnets, songs, and ballads.
Facts into Art
Discover how to convert real life into good storytelling. Extend your creative writing skills by generating ideas from daily life, and crafting them into well-conceived, skilled pieces.
Poetry, Performance, Play
Do you love the sound of words, the rhythm of poetry and the power of the human voice? Then this module is for you. Join us to learn how to craft your words into shape as you play with form and perform your own monologues, sonnets, haiku and more, letting your words travel out through the dark.
Drama, Conflict and Identity
Study landmark plays which highlight enduring issues of identity and human conflict. You will develop the critical skills, technical vocabulary, and knowledge of staging practices needed to analyse plays as text and performance, while discovering that drama is a malleable form where direction, performance and changing audiences can open up very different interpretations.
The Storyteller’s Art
Write your own tales of transformation and adventure, drawing on the world’s greatest stories studied in this module.
Writing the Environment
This module showcases the power of language, literature, and the creative word to shape and shift attitudes towards our planet and its future survival. It will encourage you to explore eco-writing and environmentalist discourse responding to three of today’s urgent environmental challenges: pollution, the climate crisis, and sustainability.
Scriptwriting
Learn about story, plot, characterisation, dialogue, structure and adaptation. Develop your skills in giving and receiving feedback on creative work. Learn how to work effectively in a group, sharing work, encouraging other writers and being encouraged by others to be the best scriptwriter you can be.
All the World’s a Stage: Shakespeare and Early Modern Theatre
Rather than studying Shakespeare in isolation, this module places him among the many inventive and influential playwrights of the time. You will be introduced to ground-breaking plays in key genres (tragedies and comedies) and sub-genres (such as revenge drama and city comedy) which flourished in the purpose-built commercial playhouses. This module explores the drama’s extraordinary legacy: a rich trove of plays of exceptional emotional reach, eloquence, invention, and imaginative daring. Provocative, moving and evocative—these plays form part of a golden age of English theatre.
Travel, Cultural Encounters and Conflict
Take the notion of travel in its broadest sense to explore the experience of individuals and groups who come into contact with each other. Starting in the eighteenth century with an exploration of Turkish painting alongside French and British Orientalist art, you will consider representations of countries such as Ireland in the Famine years, accounts of the Rwandan genocide, and Afghanistan at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Dystopian Fiction
Study exciting dystopian fiction from the past and right up to the present day. As well as reading and responding to a range of texts, you will have creative opportunities to build and explore new worlds, implementing your own survival strategies. The assessments include academic and creative options, giving you a range of opportunities to excel.
Writing Poetry Now
Do you want to take your poetry further? If you are ready to become a more skilled practitioner, able to present your work to an audience, and willing to go deeper into your study of contemporary poetry, then join us. Learn how exciting contemporary poetry is, and feel more confident in your own contributions to the poetry world.
The Short Story
Do you love reading, writing or listening to short stories? Immerse yourself in classic and contemporary stories, learn about how writers deliver their magic, using limited word counts to make every word sing. Go on to craft your own stories, drawing on the limitations of the form to turn it into a strength.
Secrets, Scandals and Rebellions
Explore the nature of secrecy, scandals and rebellions in eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature, and how aspects of these controversies are still live issues reflected in real-world scenarios. Consider a literary text of your own choice in the style of investigative journalism, and then collaborate with other students on a project linking a fictitious scandal of the past with something you identify as a continuing controversy today.
Love, Desire, Death
Trace the development of representations of love, desire and death in English poetry and drama over the course of almost three hundred and fifty years. Following on from ‘All the World’s a Stage’ in trimester one, this module will encourage you to deepen your engagement with familiar writers like Shakespeare and Marlowe, but will also introduce you to important Medieval writers and key Renaissance poets through the specific lens of their treatment of love, desire and death.
Making It New
Explore experimentation, radicalism and innovation in literature. Many writers of the 20th century rebelled against previous ways of writing, thinking these methods were no longer relevant to a rapidly changing world. You will have the chance to study a range of exciting, ground-breaking texts from the early 1900s to the 1990s.
Creative Writing Portfolio: Preparation
Everyone has a story to tell – through Creative Writing Portfolio: Preparation, you will research, plan and begin development of a creative project that is uniquely yours. Continue your development with masterclass seminars and writing workshops that will provide you with the skills needed to take your creative project from conception to completion.
Creative Writing Portfolio
You will intrigue us with your fascinating characters, move us as they tackle dilemmas, arcing across landscapes set in believable worlds. You will entice us with your lyricism and imagery, and draw us in with your control of language. As your stories and poems of the unexpected buzz across the page, you will make us want to read on.
Writing the Novel
Learn to read like a writer and write like a reader as we encourage you to develop the story that is smouldering inside you. This module reveals many of the secrets of how to plan, write, edit and rewrite long-form prose. Upon completion, you will have the skills, technique, drive and determination to begin writing a novel – your novel.
Crime Scenes
Engaging with a key genre within popular culture, you will analyse contemporary society via a number of prismatic themes, or re-framings of the ‘crime scene’: crime and its (social) environment; the status of the murdered body; the mind of the psychopath; crime fiction’s early engagement with LGBTQ+ issues, and with racial discrimination and oppression.
Unruly Subjects: Voices from the Margins
Study writing which was regarded with suspicion by the authorities and incorporates marginal figures, such as prostitutes, the poor, same-sex lovers and female adventurers. Our subject is unruliness: how it was defined, represented, attacked and, on occasion, celebrated in writing from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
Voyage Out: Navigating the Language and Literature of the Sea
This module introduces you to sea narratives from the eighteenth century to the present day. You will engage with a range of fictional and non-fictional representations of seafaring and maritime adventure, and diverse perspectives on the individual’s negotiation of the threshold between land and sea.
Writing Britain Now
Read and respond to texts written during the 21st century, novels, short stories and plays that focus on topical issues such as Brexit, immigration, racial inequality, climate change, and terrorism. You will also have an opportunity to reflect on the different perspectives diverse contemporary writers bring to the concerns of our time.
Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror: Writing the Wondrous and the Weird
A module for those for whom magic is real, technology is limitless and there are monsters hiding around every corner – Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror: Writing the Wondrous and the Weird will take you on a journey through your imagined world and encourage you to explore, to play and to craft high-quality genre fiction.
Writing the City
Do you want to write dystopian fiction? Or imagine how to make our cities happier, more democratic places to live? Then Writing The City is the module for you, with its opportunities for debate, writing, workshopping and editing your view of the city.
Intercultural Shakespeares
Examine four Shakespearean texts that dramatise or examine an intercultural encounter, and consider how these plays have been appropriated by and adapted in other cultures and by those intent on challenging dominant cultural norms. The module will be of interest to students who want to gain more understanding of Shakespeare’s plays, particularly in relation to debates regarding race, colonialism, gender and sexuality, and cultural appropriation.
Gothic Imagination
Explore the Gothic as a literary genre and cultural mode from its origins to its contemporary international manifestations. Gothic responds to the dominant culture of its time and represents an important mode of articulation for socially, politically, sexually marginalized groups. It responds to and negotiates racial, religious, gender and political issues and demonstrates an ongoing capacity to register the tensions that lie behind the surface of culture and identity.
Written on the Body
Feminist and gender criticism and theory are going through major developments in contemporary culture. At the same time, new and traditional gender identities, sexual orientation and intersectional, blended identities are raised and analysed in literary texts. This module will allow you to take account of the newest developments in its critical engagement with feminism and gender in relation to a range of contemporary texts.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
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If you require a student visa to study or if your first language is not English you will be required to provide acceptable evidence of your English language proficiency level.
This course requires academic IELTS 6.0 overall, with no less than 5.5 in each skill. This course requires academic IELTS 6.0 overall, with no less than 5.5 in each skill. See other English language proficiency qualifications accepted by the University of Hull.
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The amount you pay may increase each year, in line with inflation - but capped to the Retail Price Index (RPI).
Your tuition fees will cover most costs associated with your programme. There are some extra costs that you might have to pay, or choose to pay, depending on your programme of study and the decisions you make:
- Books (you can borrow books on your reading lists from the library, but you may buy your own)
- Optional field trips
- Study abroad (incl. travel costs, accommodation, visas, immunisation)
- Placement costs (incl. travel costs and accommodation)
- Student visas (international students)
- Laptop (you’ll have access to laptops and computers on campus, but you may want your own)
- Printing and photocopying
- Professional-body membership
- Graduation (gown hire and photography)
Remember, you’ll still need to take into account your living costs. This could include accommodation, travel, food and more.
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You’re taught by published poets, fiction writers, scriptwriters and scholars. People who bring their expertise, creativity and passion into everything you learn.
We’re part of the Larkin Centre research group. In REF 2021, 93% of our research was ranked world-leading or internationally excellent. 3
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Dr Chris Westoby
Chris’s debut novel, The Fear Talking: The True Story of a Young Man and Anxiety, explores his personal experiences of growing up with anxiety. He lectures in creative writing, gives guest lectures on mental health, and teaches reflective writing.
Kathleen McKay
Kath is a fiction writer and poet. She has published two novels, two full poetry collections and one poetry booklet, while her short stories have been anthologised and broadcast. Kath has won awards for poetry, short stories and a crime novel.
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Hull counts poets Douglas Dunn and Roger McGough among its alumni. But an English and Creative Writing degree doesn’t just pave the way for a literary career. It trains you to analyse, research and communicate at a very high level. The ability to showcase a creative mind through writing is a rare skill and highly valuable to employers.
Our graduates develop skills that are prized in many professions, and acquire the adaptability to flourish in various arenas. They’ve gone on to work for a wide range of public and private sector companies and organisations, like East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Sainsbury, Marks and Spencer, the Ministry of Justice, and more.
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- Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.
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Career options for creative writing graduates
Pursuing a career in creative writing requires passion and determination. But having a creative writing degree can give you the boost you need to make a successful writing career a reality.
Here are 5 things you can do with a creative writing degree:
1. Journalist
A career as a newspaper or magazine journalist could see you writing compelling stories for publication in local, national, or international media.
Depending on your interests, you could be writing stories across a range of areas including:
- News and politics
- Arts and culture
- Nature and the environment
- Entertainment
- Finance and business
- Human interest
As many newspapers and magazines around the world have moved into the online space, working as a journalist could see your stories published in both print and online format – opening up your work to a far wider audience.
Having strong creative writing skills, an understanding of the specific writing style best-suited for writing for the Web, and knowledge of search engine optimisation (SEO) will prove to be very valuable in your career as a journalist.
2. Digital copywriter
As a digital copywriter (often also referred to as a digital content writer), your primary goal is to gain a thorough understanding of your audience and drive them into action through engaging, persuasive writing.
In this role, you’ll produce written content for webpages, either working in an employed capacity for a specific organisation or for multiple clients as a freelancer.
Through your writing, your job will essentially be to engage and motivate your audience to take action – whether that be to buy a product or service, or support a particular cause.
You might also write copy designed to convey to your audience important information about a brand, industry or issue.
As a creative director, you’ll be the creative lead behind innovative advertising and promotional campaigns.
You’ll either work as creative director within an advertising agency for a range of clients, or in-house for the marketing department of a specific company. Either way, you’ll work with your creative team to effectively develop, plan and execute a strategic vision for your clients.
In this highly-varied and dynamic role, you'll get to supervise the entire creative process and guide and mentor your creative team. Your creative team would typically include art directors, copywriters and designers.
This is a senior role for creative thinkers and strong leaders, with a typically high salary to match. It offers fast-track promotion and global career opportunities.
4. Public relations officer
If you’re a creative communicator that can work to deadlines and thrives on challenges, a career as a public relations officer could be an excellent choice.
Public relations (PR) is all about managing your clients’ reputation. That means you’ll need to gain an in-depth understanding of your clients and what they’re trying to convey, and use that understanding to influence the opinions and behaviours of your audiences through your words.
As a PR officer, you'll utilise a range of media channels – both online and offline – to effectively build, maintain and manage your clients’ reputation. Your clients may include government agencies, private businesses and not-for-profit organisations.
You’ll also monitor your clients’ publicity and conduct research to find out the concerns and expectations of your clients’ stakeholders. You'll then report these findings to your clients and work with them to ensure a good relationship between them and their target audience is maintained.
While many graduates with a creative writing degree tend to write for organisations and businesses, some also go on to pursue their personal ambition of writing a best-selling novel or screenplay.
As a freelance writer, you could produce works of fiction and/or non-fiction, including:
- Short stories
- Magazine and newspaper articles
- Biographies and autobiographies
You could also be writing across a range of mediums, including:
- Print – books, magazines, newspapers, etc.
- Digital – blogs, apps, games, etc.
Since freelance writers are self-employed, income can be unpredictable at times. This is why most supplement their income with other related writing jobs (such as those outlined above) while pursuing their personal writing projects.
If you’re interested in pursuing a career in writing, University of Hull Online offers a flexible online MA in Creative Writing that you can study alongside your work and other commitments.
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