English Language With Creative Writing

English Language with Creative Writing is a degree that brings together two complementary ways of engaging with language. English language study, or linguistics, investigates how language works: its structure and grammar, its history and variation, its role in constructing social identities and its relationship to thought and culture. Creative writing, meanwhile, develops your ability to use language with intention and craft, making deliberate choices about form, voice, structure and register.

The two disciplines inform each other: writing more carefully makes you more attentive to how language works, and understanding language more deeply makes you a more purposeful writer.

At Bangor University, the three-year full-time programme develops your linguistic knowledge alongside your creative practice, exploring the structure and meaning of English through different frameworks while also developing your own writing across fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and other forms. The degree includes a foundation year option for students who need additional preparation, a sandwich year, a year abroad and a work placement, giving you a wide range of opportunities to develop professional experience and to encounter different linguistic and literary communities outside the UK.

Bangor's distinctive setting in north Wales, where English and Welsh coexist as living languages with complex social and political histories, gives the study of language a particular immediacy and depth. The bilingual context is not merely background: it is a living laboratory for some of the most interesting questions in linguistics.

Graduates of English language and creative writing degrees work in publishing, journalism, copywriting, content creation, education, speech and language therapy preparatory roles, communications, public relations and the arts. Many combine creative writing careers with other professional work. Postgraduate study in linguistics, creative writing, English literature, education or a professional discipline is a natural continuation.