Program Description

This innovative course will challenge students to write using new forms and ideas in a wide range of genres, while being pushed to experiment with new creative outlets.

Students find their voice and discover their own creative writing path through studying with at DMU. By embedding stimulating themes throughout distinctive course structure at DMU they give students the opportunity to develop skills across fiction, poetry, memoir, the graphic novel, screenwriting, non-fiction, audio and performance writing, concrete poetry and new media.

Students will examine the relationship between word, image, and sound and, by the end of the course, they won’t just be writing – they’ll also be producing their own professional-standard publications. As a final confidence boost final-year voice coaching helps students leave DMU as a self-assured public performer.

Key features

• Students learn from successful working writers and industry professionals. Recent guest speakers include our visiting professor, poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah, novelist Mahsuda Snaith, literary agent Oli Munson and non-fiction author Damian Le Bas.
• We’ll help you to experiment and push beyond your comfort zone and produce podcasts, audio-visual pieces and multimedia digital work.
• We’ll encourage you to join regional writing networks, participate in spoken word events, and perform and publish your work through book fairs and festivals.
• Work beyond classroom boundaries in a variety of stimulating settings to promote creativity, including urban walk workshops, museum trips and ghost story workshops in a deconsecrated chapel.
• We’re ranked in the top 15 creative writing courses in the UK for graduate prospects (Complete University Guide 2020).
• Take part in an overseas trip with DMU Global, our international experience programme. On a walking tour of Berlin we asked students to consider the theme of borders and exile, while others held a scavenger hunt in the New York Public Library and another trip discovered Danish literature in Copenhagen.