Develop your critical and creative voices

Professor Benjamin Noys

Learn from expert staff

All students are taught by practising and published writers and literary critics.

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Smaller teaching groups

More intimate teaching means better learning and support for our students.

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Wide range of study areas

From Renaissance to the Present Day and short fiction to the Science Fiction novel.

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Built around employability

We ensure you gain the skills needed to stand out in the competitive job market.

English and Creative Writing courses

Learn from practising and published critics, literary theorists and world-leading writers. Our courses include joint honours options that allow you to incorporate study from across the humanities and build your degree around your passions.

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BA (Hons) Creative Writing

Develop your voice as a writer as you learn from one of the most established and experienced teaching teams in the UK.

BA (Hons) English Literature

Explore your passion for English literature as you critically engage with a wide range of texts from the Renaissance to the modern day.

BA (Hons) Creative Writing and English

Develop your skills as both a creative and a critical writer with the help of one of the most established and experienced teaching teams in the UK.

BA (Hons) English Literature and History

Explore your passion for both literature and history as you analyse texts from a variety of contexts, time periods and authors.

BA (Hons) Creative Writing and History

Develop your skills as a writer and grow your ability to critically engage with historical debate.

BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Philosophy & Ethics

Gain skills in creative writing as you engage in critical debate around key philosophical and ethical questions.

BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Screenwriting

Master the fundamental skills in creative writing alongside an in-depth understanding of writing for the screen.

BA (Hons) Screenwriting

Find your own voice and gain the skills and disciplines required for a future career in the screen industries.

MA Creative Writing

Focus on the craft of writing on a postgraduate course designed to develop your skills, experiment with form, and explore writing within different genres.

BA (Hons) Creative Writing and English with Integrated Foundation Year

Builds your academic skills with a foundational first year before progressing onto the full degree programme. Ideal for those who don’t meet the standard degree route entry requirements.

Choose Chichester to develop your specialism within English and Creative Writing

The University of Chichester welcomes applications for doctorial candidates and those choosing to study with us benefit from working with specialists in their respective fields who have national and international reputations.

Cloisters

Learn from leading experts and published writers

Dr Miles Leeson

Reader in English Literature

Karen Stevens

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Dr Suzanne Joinson

Reader in Creative Writing

English and Creative Writing

Learn more about our English and
Creative Writing department

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Explore writing as a craft as you learn the foundations of great storytelling

Learn to understand the world around you and explore your creativity through a writer’s notebook, tap into your own experience to inform your creative thinking, and use the wider world as inspiration for your writing.

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Learn to write for a diverse range of forms to find the one that suits you

You will have the opportunity to learn, and then specialise in, a wide-range of creative writing disciplines including: fiction, novels, screenplays and creative non-fiction.

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Engage industry professionals and widen your network

Gain the opportunity to engage with the wider creative writing industry through regular readings from guest writers, book launches, and an annual publishing panel where you can meet and talk with agents and editors.

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Join a successful community of writers who honed their craft at Chichester

In recent years, students have gone on to publish novels, poetry collections, win prizes in major competitions such as the Bridport Prize and have poems and stories in magazines such as The Paris Review and Staple.

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Examine the work of some of the most influential writers

Gain a deeper insight into the work of some of the most
well-respected writers, including authors such as Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, and Charles Dickens.

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Expand your horizons as you study exciting genres that push beyond realism

Explore literature from across a plethora of genres that go beyond traditional ‘realism’, with options to study fantasy, fairy tales, Afrofuturism, science fiction, and gothic literature, as you understand more about how they formed within their historical and cultural origins.

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Dedicated modules that explore the history of women in literature

Learn from leading experts in contemporary women’s writings as you explore the evolution of the literary work of women throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Develop your knowledge of literary theory from Sigmund Freud to Judith Butler

Learn about the history of critical theory and its relationship to wider political and social movements both in Britain and around the world as you explore modernity, feminist theory, structuralism and psychoanalysis.

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Welcoming award-winning Ukrainian author Volodymyr Rafeienko

Celebrated Ukrainian author Volodymyr Rafeienko has published his first essay since being awarded a digital writing residency by the University of Chichester.

Award Winning Ukrainian Author Volodymyr Rafeienko