Discover creative writing degrees at Chichester on National Writing Day
Budding writers are urged to ‘nurture your imagination’ by exploring creative writing degrees at the University of Chichester on National Writing Day (June 19).
The University has a thriving creative writing programme, which was recently ranked second in the country (Guardian University Guide 2023), offering several undergraduate degrees in the subject as well as a master’s programme.
Students learn from practising and published writers, and benefit from masterclasses from visiting writers and Professors, including author Kate Mosse, novelist and short story writer Alison MacLeod, writer and multimedia collaborator Akila Richards, flash fictioneer James Burt, and poet, performer and playwright Sea Sharp.
Graduates include: author Bethan Roberts, whose novel My Policeman is now a major film starring Harry Styles; contemporary fiction writer Isabel Ashdown, award-winning author of ten novels; and fiction writer Glen James Brown, whose debut novel Ironopolis was shortlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize & 2020 Portico Prize.
Karen Stevens (pictured right), Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, said: “National Writing Day is an annual celebration of writing designed to inspire people across the UK to get writing. It’s a celebration of writing, and anyone can take part for pleasure and self-expression – at home, school, work, wherever.
“Here, at the University of Chichester, we’ve been teaching Creative Writing for over 30 years with a similar aim in mind. We want our students to find their voice, to communicate their unique perspectives and experiences in a way that is true to themselves as they explore the creative pleasures and challenges of developing work from their first idea to early drafts, through to final finished pieces.”
Dr Naomi Foyle (pictured left), Reader in Critical Imaginative Writing, added: “Whether you write, or want to write, poetry, novels, short stories, flash fiction, memoir, YA (young adult), children’s lit, fantasy, SciFi, social realism or experimental texts – the Creative Writing programme at the University of Chichester will nurture your imagination and hone your skills. Study here and find yourself among people who take your writing seriously!”
Undergraduate programmes include the BA Single Honours Creative Writing degree, as well as joint honours in BA Creative Writing and English, BA Creative Writing and History, BA Creative Writing and Philosophy & Ethics and BA Creative Writing and Screenwriting. There is also one postgraduate programme, MA Creative Writing.
To find out more about Creative Writing courses at the University of Chichester, visit: www.chi.ac.uk/english-and-creative-writing/
