Program Overview

Discover your creative voice by experimenting with poetry, fiction, screenwriting, graphic novel scripts, new media, and audio and performance writing. By combining your studies with a complimentary subject, your writing will stay fresh with new ideas and varied influences.

Study Creative Writing with us to find your voice, refine your talent, and put purpose into every word you write. With inspiring, stimulating themes embedded throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills across fiction, poetry, memoir, graphic novel, screenwriting, non-fiction, audio and performance writing, concrete poetry, and new media.? 

You’ll examine the relationship between word, image, and sound and, by the end of your course, you won’t just be writing – you’ll also be producing your own professional-standard publications. We will also equip you with voice coaching to help you leave DMU as a self-assured public performer.  

At DMU, you can study Creative Writing with either Drama, Film Studies, or Journalism as a joint honors course. You will choose 50 percent of your options from Creative Writing and 50 percent from Drama, Film Studies, or Journalism. Combining your Creative Writing study with a complimentary academic discipline ensures that your writing stays fresh with different stimuli and you will develop varied skills to broaden your career opportunities. 

Key features

• Become part of regional writing networks and perform and publish your work through events such as the annual book festival States of Independence, DMU’s Cultural Exchanges festival, and spoken word events. 
• Gain confidence in practical skills in performing and audio recording, and technical skills in digital and print publishing. 
• We’ll help you to experiment and push you beyond your comfort zone to produce podcasts, audio-visual pieces, and multimedia digital work. 
• Work beyond classroom boundaries in a variety of stimulating settings to promote creativity, including urban walk workshops, museum trips, and ghost story workshops in a deconsecrated chapel.
• DMU is ranked in the top 10 Creative Writing courses in the UK for graduate prospects, according to the Complete University Guide 2022.
• Take part in an overseas trip with ?DMU Global, our international experience program. Our students have considered themes of borders and exile during a walking tour of Berlin, taken part in a scavenger hunt in the New York Public Library, and discovered Danish literature in Copenhagen. 
• You’ll learn from successful working writers and industry professionals. Recent guest speakers include our visiting professor, poet, and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah, novelist Mahsuda Snaith, literary agent Oli Munson, and non-fiction author Damian Le Bas.