At Brighton you’ll use writing to investigate and challenge ideas, and explore diverse texts and their contexts, and develop your own writing and critical skills.
We take a decolonised approach to literature that is progressive and contemporary, while celebrating the historical and cultural contexts of writing. This means you might study early modern literature and Shakespeare, as well as examining Black British literature and issues such as identity and diversity.
Our creative writing degrees will guide you in crafting your writing skills so that you can create work for a variety of genres, opening your options to work across many rewarding creative industries. Whether you dream of writing novels, working as a scriptwriter or copywriting for an advertising agency, at Brighton our module choices and experienced lecturers will support you in realising your goals.
Trips, research projects and hands-on opportunities connect theory with practice and enable you to develop as a confident thinker and writer.
Undergraduate degrees
Opportunities to specialise
Our Creative Writing BA and English Literature BA degree courses offer the opportunity to focus on a specialist subject. From year 2 of your course you can choose a specialist pathway, or carry on with your more general degree for a broad view of the subject along with your choice of option modules.
On our specialist pathways, you'll focus on your specialist subject through core modules and the option modules you choose, and you'll graduate with that subject in your degree title.
Our pathways at the end of year 1 are:
Postgraduate degrees
PhD courses
At Brighton, we are keen to support innovative PhD students working on different approaches to creative practice. We have over 30 creative writing PhD students exploring a diverse range of styles and genres and who are using distinct research approaches to push and evolve writing boundaries.
We also have research centres and groups which focus on the school's particular strength in arts and wellbeing; memory, narrative and histories; decolonisation; and sexuality and gender.