Creative Writing
Creative writing is the art of using language with conscious craft and intentionality to produce literary work that moves, challenges, or illuminates. It encompasses fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, screenwriting, and forms that resist easy categorisation, and it demands from its practitioners both imaginative freedom and serious technical discipline. Studying creative writing at degree level develops your ability to use language with precision and purpose, to understand the structural and stylistic choices that distinguish accomplished work, and to engage critically and generously with the work of others.
At the University of Lincoln, this three-year full-time programme invites you to explore the full range of your creative possibilities while developing a genuine understanding of the writer's craft. You will read widely and attentively, developing your critical sense of what makes writing work and why. You will write across different forms and genres, learning to take risks, to revise seriously, and to receive feedback in ways that strengthen your work rather than simply validating it.
Workshop sessions are central to the experience, creating a community of writers who share work, offer critique, and learn from each other's developing practice. The course also connects you to questions of literary history, genre, and the contemporary literary landscape, ensuring that your creative development is informed by a wide understanding of what literature has been and can be. The programme includes a sandwich year and work placement, giving you professional experience that might involve writing for organisations, media companies, or cultural institutions.
Graduates from creative writing programmes work as novelists, poets, screenwriters, playwrights, journalists, editors, copywriters, content strategists, communications professionals, and teachers. The skills in close reading, precise writing, and critical thinking that the degree develops are valued across many sectors. Further study in creative writing, publishing, journalism, or English literature is available at postgraduate level, including taught master's programmes and practice-led research degrees.