BA (Hons) Creative Writing Bachelor's degree at De Montfort University

Both in workshops and through independent study, you will explore a wide range of short-form writing, including a variety of modes: international strict form poetry (e.g., sonnet, rondeau, terza rima, ghazal, villanelle, sestina), free verse, flash fiction, and historical flash fiction. Ethical questions about combining fact and fiction are addressed in an introduction to historical fiction. You may also explore review writing in real-world contexts and digital short-form writing on social media

Assessment: Collaborative Writing (20%) and Short Form Portfolio (80%)

This module focuses on journeys and places, offering the chance to explore key concepts underpinning your studies. You will take a post-disciplinary approach, using techniques from diverse areas to address questions related to journeys and places. Interactive lectures with students from across the School of Creative Industries and Culture provide opportunities to apply these concepts in creative writing workshops and assessments. Themes may include journeys, spaces, and the concept of welcome; (

Assessment: Subject-specific Coursework 1 (30%) and Coursework 2 (70%)

This module explores how traditional texts and digital innovations can improve your writing practice. Through core readings, including work from global majority writers and translations, you will develop craft skills in voice, form, structure, and genre. A key aim of the module is to help you optimise your growth as a writer in the digital sphere. In addition to producing creative work, you will work individually or collaboratively in a 'writers' salon'. You will lead discussions, select materia

Assessment: Writers' Salon (20%) and Portfolio (80%)

This year-long module develops your writing practice, focusing on your existing creative projects. You'll plan, research, and develop these projects effectively, learning the importance of constructive feedback. Key activities include workshopping, character development, and place writing techniques.

Assessment: Feedback Report (20%) and Creative Work & Reflective Commentary (80%)

This module explores the negotiation of identity in writing as potential material for the creative writer. It involves exploring the identities of the fictional characters created by authors, and your own identity as a writer and creative thinker. You will engage with a wide range of fictional, biographical, autobiographical, poetic, and theoretical material. As well as exploring memoir, biography and other forms of non-fiction, you will also explore the ways in which the raw material of memory,

Assessment: Writing Identity Portfolio (100%)

This module is designed to prepare and support you towards the pursuit of post-degree pathways. You will focus on the specific skills, capabilities and knowledge needed to adapt and flourish in professional environments and contexts. There will be an emphasis on enhancement of core attributes, competencies and transferable skills as well as developing familiarity with the world and politics of work. The module will prepare you for diverse and dynamic working environments beyond university and su

Assessment: Written Portfolio or Recorded Presentation (100%)

This module's focus is story in the broadest sense - a subject with relevance in forms as diverse as poetry, hypertext, and all scripted work. Narrative remains a tremendously powerful tool in all aspects of media, in marketing, advertising, gaming, as well as all aspects of fiction. Main themes may include narrative arcs and structures, characterisation, pace, event, story-world, dialogue, clue-laying, revelation, and concealment, and means of involving the reader.

Assessment: Story Craft Proposal (40%) and Story Craft Creative Work (60%)

This year-long module builds upon the skills developed in Shaping Ideas at level 4. Through in-depth study of form and wide-ranging research, you will explore how word, image and sound might be placed in creative dialogue in a variety of writing contexts. This may include writing as varied as ekphrastic poetry, poetry films, podcasting, screenplays, comics, graphic novels, radio drama, hypertext, and audio-visual work.

The unifying theme of this module is writing for screens and with screens. In this module, you will develop skills in writing for a range of screen genres and platforms with a focus on optimising your writing practice in the 21st century writing and publishing context. Writing for and with screens provides the contemporary writer with an opportunity to revitalise creative processes, such as drafting, editing, publishing, reading and researching.

Assessment: Screentime Reflection (30%) and Screentime Project (70%)

This module provides you with a range of appropriate professional skills and knowledge of the writing industry in its global context. Although some will be specific to the needs of creative writing practitioners, the knowledge and employability skills you gain will also be an advantage in a range of career options. Thus, it encompasses enterprise and entrepreneurship education by enabling you to develop the specific skills, capabilities and knowledge needed to adapt and flourish in different pro

Assessment: Marketing Plan (30%) and Publication Project (70%)

This module encourages you to rethink the premise of 'Creative Writing' as self-expression. It will heighten your attention to the language that surrounds them in everyday life and involve an element of self-transformation in your attitudes towards relations between art and life. Creative Writing is founded upon notions of 'original' composition, and the quest to find a 'unique' voice.

Assessment: Uncreative Portfolio (100%)

The final-year dissertation module provides you with an opportunity to work at length in a single