Creative Writing

Develop your creative and critical practice, whether you're looking for the right environment to work on an extended writing project or want to conduct practice-based research to prepare for an academic career.

You'll join an interdisciplinary Film and Creative Writing department where you'll be supported by writers in your chosen form, whether that's prose, poetry, scriptwriting or hybrid and new forms.

This PhD builds on your writing experience, which might be from an MA in Creative Writing, or from professional publication. By the end of the PhD you'll produce a creative work of publishable quality and complementary critical document.

You can choose to create a long form work or a sequence of related works for your creative document. In the critical document you'll present a structured argument showing your awareness of literary contexts and critical and creative processes.

Our researchers are writers who explore innovative forms of writing. We offer research specialisms across many modes and genres, such as: novels, ecopoetics, live performance, translation, transnational fiction, prose poetry, short stories and screenwriting.

You're welcome to explore traditional forms of prose, poetry or screenwriting, experiment with hybrid forms, or produce creative writing for performance. Whichever form you select, you'll be encouraged and challenged to think critically about your writing process and consider the wider literary context you're writing into.