English with Creative Writing | BA (Hons) at Leeds Beckett University

Course Details

The best writers are great readers. Explore the principles of great literature. Let your imagination take flight and develop your own creative voice, producing short stories, autobiographical writing, poetry and script.  You will be taught by award-winning writers (poets, fiction writers and playwrights), and graduate with a recognised degree and employable skills in literary research and creative communications.

The final year offers a chance to work on an extended creative writing project, where you will collaborate with your peers to produce an anthology and plan a related launch event.  In addition, you can choose from a range of other modules in literature, including Life Writing and Experimental Writing.  Across three years, the course introduces you to a range of literary and writing contexts, enabling you to develop the ability to respond creatively to the world around you.

Explore our BA (Hons) Creative Writing in Contemporary Culture. 

Course Benefits

We celebrate students and staff with a true passion for the Arts and Humanities.

Through inspired teaching and intellectual debate, plus day to day interaction with award-winning authors and playwrights, a rolling programme of media industry professionals, published lecturers and world-renowned researchers, we will nurture your passion by developing your creative and critical thinking.

Then we will open your mind to the wide range of opportunities to pursue a career you love, be it anything from writing and teaching, through journalism and copywriting, business and marketing, to research and publishing.

Leeds is the Northern heart of culture and the arts. Your campus sits in the very centre of the city,surrounded by over 18 museums, 10 art galleries, 17 theatres, 4 film production companies and 3 recording studios (plus the odd bar, restaurant and club!). We work directly with Leeds museums and galleries and many regional events, including the Ilkley Literature Festival and the Leeds West Indian Carnival. Our location has enabled us to develop relationships with employers and cultural industries in the city and across the region.  Students have completed placements in the editorial team at Hallmark Studios and with Peepal Tree Press, an internationally-renowned publisher based in the city.

Our research and teaching explore a diversity of topics, from South Africa under Apartheid to the cultural impact of the LGBTQ community and from on-line racism in football to 21st century genres. We're also very hands-on: from regular conferences, seminars and events organised by our Centre for Culture and the Arts, to collaborations with institutes and cultural organisations.

There are fantastic opportunities to discover who you are as a writer by studying abroad. We currently have nine Erasmus exchange programmes, including locations in Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Spain and Ireland.

A collaboration with multinational services network PwC granted our history and English students exclusive access to the company’s archives to compile a unique collection of letters sent during WWI.