English and Creative Writing
Discover an exciting range of dynamic degrees in creative writing and literary studies
English and Creative Writing
Discover an exciting range of dynamic degrees in creative writing and literary studies
Top 10
for teaching quality in Creative Writing
Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023
6th
in the UK for learning opportunities for Creative Writing
National Student Survey 2023
2nd
in the UK for English and
Creative Writing courses
Guardian University Guide 2023
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Develop your critical and creative voices
Learn from expert staff
All students are taught by practising and published writers and literary critics.
Smaller teaching groups
More intimate teaching means better learning and support for our students.
Wide range of study areas
From Renaissance to the Present Day and short fiction to the Science Fiction novel.
Built around employability
We ensure you gain the skills needed to stand out in the competitive job market.
English and Creative Writing courses
Discover our dynamic and exciting courses with a wide range of single and joint honours
Our courses are taught by practising and published critics, literary theorists and world-leading writers, who work together to deliver a broad range of courses.
Our selection of single and joint honours courses allow you to incorporate academic study from across the humanities and build your degree around your passions.
Select a learning level
PhD study
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.
Expert teaching staff
Learn from leading experts and published writers
Reader in English Literature
Dr Leeson is the Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre and is an expert in women’s literature of the 20th century.
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Karen is a multi-award winning writer who specialises in the contemporary novel, children’s fiction and short fiction.
Professor of Critical Theory
Professor Noys focuses on critical and literary theory, with particular interest in the avant-garde, film, and cultural politics.
The craft of writing
Explore writing as a craft as you learn the foundations of great storytelling
Learn to understand the world around you and explore the 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.
Find your form
Learn to write for a diverse range of forms to find the one that fits for 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.
Industry insight
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.
Graduate success
Join a successful community of writers who learned 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.
Study the greats
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.
Go beyond tradition
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.
Women's writing
Dedicated modules that explore the history and 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.
Critical eye
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.
Digital residency
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.
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History, Politics and International Relations
Explore your passion for history as you develop your analytical and critical thinking skills.
