English with Creative Writing

This flexible ba english with creative writing degree allows you to choose topics related to american literature and culture, comparisons of literature across different cultures and art forms (also known as comparative literature), and study diverse aspects of language use in linguistics modules. your literary and creative studies will be supported by lectures and seminars that will give you practical advice to help you improve your essay writing and refine your research strategies.

Our poets’ successes have been matched in recent years by our prose writers. four novels which began as creative writing dissertations and portfolios have since been published or acquired for publication: sara jafari’s debut novel the mismatch was published by penguin in 2021, started life on the creating the text module, while marlowe granados’ best-selling debut, happy hour, also published this year by verso, formed part of marlowe’s third year creative writing dissertation. similarly, abi andrews debut, the word for woman is wilderness, published by serpent’s tail in 2018, was first aired in a workshop taken during her third year on the ba hons english creative writing programme, as did paddy crewe’s debut novel, yip, which will be published in hardback in spring 2022 by doubleday. kandace siobhan walker’s short story deep heart, was winner of the 2019 4th estate and guardian short story prize (kandace was also winner of the 2020 white review poetry prize) and she is also working on her debut novel and collection of poetry; goldsmiths creative writing ba and ma graduate, dizz tate’s debut novel brutes is scheduled for publication by faber in february 2023. aside from literary forms, goldsmiths undergraduate creative writing alumni also include a number of exciting non-fiction writers and journalists: daisy jones, who is associate editor of vice uk and author of all the things she said: everything i know about modern lesbian and bi culture, published by hachette in 2021; charlie brinkhurst cuff is award-winning journalist, book editor, columnist and podcast host. she is currently a senior staff editor at the new york times having enjoyed a celebrated tenure as editor-in-chief at gal-dem magazine. she has also written for the guardian, observer, ipaper and metro, and has worked as weekend editor and writer at dazed. excitingly, her debut collection of non-fiction, black joy will be published under the penguin imprint in hardback on 2nd september 2021; felix petty, now executive editor at i-d magazine, following on from his time as music editor for tank.

Work while you study

You can also work on a UK student visa, from 10 to 20 hours per week during the academic year, 40 hours per week or full-time during vacations.

Partnerships

Most universities in England have partnerships with different companies and organisations to ensure their students get enough professional training as students. In addition to increasing their students' chances to get hired by one of the universities. Goldsmiths University has partnerships with the following companies: