Creative Writing

Creative writing is the practice of making language do more than inform: shaping it to create experiences, invoke emotions, construct characters, and build worlds that readers enter and inhabit. It is a discipline that takes the writer's craft seriously, recognising that even apparently spontaneous creative expression is underpinned by technique, and that developing that technique requires sustained practice, careful reading, and honest critical engagement with your own work and the work of others.

At Bangor University, this three-year full-time programme invites you to explore your creativity while developing a rigorous understanding of craft. You will write across prose fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and potentially other forms, learning to take risks and to revise seriously in response to feedback from tutors and peers. Workshop sessions are central to the experience, creating a community of writers who share work, offer critique, and develop their judgement through sustained engagement with each other's developing practice.

Reading widely is as important as writing, and you will study the work of established writers as a writer rather than merely as a reader, asking how effects are achieved and what choices led to them. The programme includes a foundation year, a sandwich year, a year abroad, and work placement, giving you a particularly rich and varied formation that includes professional and international experience.

Graduates from creative writing programmes go on to careers in writing, publishing, education, journalism, communications, public relations, content strategy, arts administration, and the broader creative industries. Many develop their own creative practice alongside other professional work. Further study at postgraduate level in creative writing, English literature, publishing, or screenwriting is available for those who wish to develop their craft or move into research-led practice.