Music And Creative Writing

Music and creative writing is a pairing that brings together two practices concerned with the organisation of experience into meaningful form. Music is one of the most ancient and universal of human arts, requiring both technical mastery and interpretive understanding, whether you are engaged with composition, performance, or the analysis and history of musical traditions. Creative writing develops the craft of shaping language into fiction, poetry, scripts, or other forms, combining imagination with the disciplined study of how great writing works and what it achieves.

Both disciplines reward precision, creative risk, and sustained practice.

At Bangor University this three-year full-time programme includes a foundation year for those who benefit from additional academic preparation, as well as a sandwich placement year, a year abroad, and a work placement component, giving you substantial structured opportunities to develop professional experience and to encounter music and writing in different international contexts. The foundation year is designed to build the skills and knowledge needed to engage fully with degree-level work in both subjects. The typical entry tariff of 120 points reflects the broad entry base for this creative combination programme.

You will develop musicianship and critical understanding of music alongside the craft of writing, working across a range of musical forms and literary genres. The combination develops skills of close listening, creative expression, research, and critical analysis that are genuinely transferable across many professional and artistic contexts.

Graduates pursue careers in music, writing, arts administration, broadcasting, journalism, education, music production, publishing, community arts, and the wider creative industries. Many work across multiple creative fields simultaneously, building portfolio careers that draw on the range of skills the degree develops. Postgraduate study in music, creative writing, or arts management is a well-established next step for those wanting to deepen their practice.