Creative Writing and Dance

Creative writing and dance may seem an unlikely pairing, but both are fundamentally concerned with how human beings use form, rhythm, and structure to communicate experience. Writing asks you to shape language with precision and imagination; dance asks you to do the same with the body in time and space. Studying them together sharpens your awareness of both, because each discipline throws the other into relief, making you conscious of choices and conventions you might otherwise take for granted.

Liverpool is, as the programme notes, a city with a distinctive literary and cultural identity, and Hope's course places you within that environment. You will be taught by practising writers, poets, and academics with both local roots and international recognition, developing your own writing voice across fiction, poetry, script, and other forms while also building your understanding of dance technique, choreography, and performance. The degree runs across four years, including a sandwich placement year, a year abroad, and integrated work placement opportunities.

This extended engagement with professional and international contexts is a real asset for creative practitioners, who often need to build networks and experience across multiple settings. The typical entry tariff is 104 points.

Graduates from creative writing and dance programmes often develop portfolio careers that combine their own practice with teaching, facilitation, or community arts work. Writing for performance, theatre, and screen is a natural area of application, as is work in arts education at all levels. Dance companies, arts organisations, festivals, and cultural venues all employ graduates with this kind of interdisciplinary background.

Further study, whether an MA in creative writing, dance, or performing arts, or research degrees exploring practice-based questions, is a common route for those who want to develop their work at greater depth.