English with Creative Writing
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English with Creative Writing
Entry Year: 2026
2 study options
English with Creative Writing BA (Hons)
Key information
Degree : BA (Hons)
Duration : 3 years
Start : September 2026
UCAS code : QW11
Institution code : Q50
Typical A-Level offer : Grades BBB at A-Level.\ Full entry requirements (including contextual admissions)
Home fees : £9,535
Overseas fees
: £26,950\
[Funding information](#funding)\
[Paying your fees](https://www.qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/feesandfunding/payment/)
English with Creative Writing with Year Abroad BA (Hons)
Key information
Degree : BA (Hons)
Duration : 4 years
Start : September 2026
UCAS code : QW1Y
Institution code : Q50
Typical A-Level offer : Grades BBB at A-Level.\ Full entry requirements (including contextual admissions)
Home fees : £9,535
Overseas fees
: £26,950\
[Funding information](#funding)\
[Paying your fees](https://www.qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/feesandfunding/payment/)
Year abroad cost
Finances for studying abroad on exchange
English with Creative Writing
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Overview
Looking for a degree that will inspire your intellectual curiosity and spark your creativity?
Our BA in English with Creative Writing will give you a sound knowledge base in literature, along with the all-important tools you need to become a writer.
You'll gain a deeper understanding of literary history and theory, exploring subjects from medieval literature and Shakespeare to modernism, postcolonialism and contemporary writing.
The creative writing element of this programme is designed to help you find your voice, develop your practical skills and techniques, and give you an insight into the process of writing.
You'll have the opportunity to grow and flourish as a writer in a safe and supportive environment, whether in prose, poetry or creative non-fiction.
Structure
You can complete your English and Creative Writing degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.
Year 1
You will take the following modules (all compulsory):
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- London Global
- Reading, Theory and Interpretation: approaches to the study of English Literature
- Shakespeare
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 2
You will take the following two compulsory modules
- Creative Writing: Poetry and Performance
- Creative Writing: Prose
You then choose a minimum of two modules from across at least two of these lists:
List One: Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity
- Renaissance Drama
List Two: Eighteenth-Century, Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Romantics and Revolutionaries
- Victorian Fictions
List Three: Modern, Contemporary and Postcolonial Studies
- Modernism
- Postcolonial and Global Literatures
You then choose one or two modules from a wide range of options that changes each year. Modules may include:
- American Romanticism
- Global Shakespeare
- James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
- Terror, Transgresssion and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
- The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918 - 1948
- The Thousand and One Nights
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 3
You will take two advanced creative writing modules from a list that changes each year. Modules may include:
- Creative Writing Advanced Fiction: Serious Play - Ludic Strategies for Writing Fiction
- Creative Writing Advanced Poetry: The Poetics of Translation
- Creative Writing and Performance
- The Past Persists: Hauntings & Memory in Creative Writing
- Creative Writing: Innovative Ecologies
You may also choose to complete a Creative Writing Dissertation or an English Research Dissertation.
You choose the rest of your final year modules (including at least one 30 credit module) from a wide range of options that changes each year.
English Modules may include
- Feminism(s)
- Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
- Heroes and Outlaws in History and Fiction from 1100 - 1600
- Jane Austen: Regency Novelist
- Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture
- Shakespeare: the play, the word and the book
- Time, Narrative and Culture
- Writing Black and Asian Britain
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Study options
Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.
Year abroad
Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our English with Creative Writing BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).
Find out more about study abroad opportunities with Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.
Additional Costs
A few modules may require you to buy tickets to shows or exhibitions (often at a discounted rate) as well as pay for travel within London.
Testimonial
“Other English degrees I looked at wouldn’t have let me study texts where I’d feel seen andunderstood. The academics are very intentional about making the content diverse while giving us asolid representation of literature as a whole.”
Teaching
Teaching and learning
You'll receive approximately 10 hours of weekly contact time, comprising lectures, smaller seminar groups, field trips, tutorials and workshops.
For every hour spent in class, you'll complete a further four to six hours of independent study.
Assessment
Assessment typically includes a combination of coursework including essays, projects, presentations, log books and portfolios.
Resources and facilities
The School offers excellent on-campus and London-based resources to support your studies, including:
- creative writing events, support systems and experts on campus
- access to Senate House Library and the British Library – the most important intellectual resources in London
- opportunities to meet visiting experts including publishers, curators, archivists, poets, novelists, activists and filmmakers
- proximity to specialist archives and collections such as the BFI National Archive, Poetry Library, Women’s Library, National Art Library and the Warburg Institute
- opportunities to write, edit and publish for student newspapers and magazines
Our degree programmes incorporate critical thinking and practice-based learning and develop graduates who progress into an exciting range of professions from the creative industries to digital media and communications, from work in the culture and arts sectors to working abroad with languages and intercultural understanding.
Entry requirements
English with Creative Writing - BA (Hons)
| A-Level | Grades BBB at A-Level. |
| IB | International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 30 points overall, including 5,5,5 from three Higher Level subjects. |
| BTEC | See our detailed subject and grade requirements |
| Access HE | We consider applications from students with the Access to Higher Education Diploma. The minimum academic requirement is to achieve 60 credits overall, with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 15 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. Applications are considered on a case by case basis. Due to the high volume of applications, we do not make offers of study purely on the basis of meeting grade requirements. |
| GCSE | Minimum five GCSE passes including English at grade C or 4. |
| EPQ | Alternative offers may be made to applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification. For further information please visit: qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry/epq |
| Contextualised admissions | Our standard contextual offer: BCC Our enhanced contextual offer: CCC More information on our contextual offer criteria can be found on our contextualised admissions page. Please note that General Studies and Critical Thinking are excluded from any A-Level offer and cannot be considered. |
English with Creative Writing with Year Abroad - BA (Hons)
| A-Level | Grades BBB at A-Level. |
| IB | International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 30 points overall, including 5,5,5 from three Higher Level subjects. |
| BTEC | See our detailed subject and grade requirements |
| Access HE | We consider applications from students with the Access to Higher Education Diploma. The minimum academic requirement is to achieve 60 credits overall, with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 15 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. Applications are considered on a case by case basis. Due to the high volume of applications, we do not make offers of study purely on the basis of meeting grade requirements. |
| GCSE | Minimum five GCSE passes including English at grade C or 4. |
| EPQ | Alternative offers may be made to applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification. For further information please visit: qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry/epq |
| Contextualised admissions | Our standard contextual offer: BCC Our enhanced contextual offer: CCC More information on our contextual offer criteria can be found on our contextualised admissions page. Please note that General Studies and Critical Thinking are excluded from any A-Level offer and cannot be considered. |
Non-UK students
We accept a wide range of European and international qualifications in addition to A-levels, the International Baccalaureate and BTEC qualifications. Please visit International Admissions for full details.
If your qualifications are not accepted for direct entry onto this degree, consider applying for a foundation programme.
English language
Find out more about our English language entry requirements, including the types of test we accept and the scores needed for entry to the programme.
You may also be able to meet the English language requirement for your programme by joining a summer pre-sessional programme before starting your degree.
Further information
See our general undergraduate entry requirements.
Funding
Loans and grants
UK students accepted onto this course are eligible to apply for tuition fee and maintenance loans from Student Finance England or other government bodies.
Scholarships and bursaries
Queen Mary offers a generous package of scholarships and bursaries, which currently benefits around 50 per cent of our undergraduates.
Scholarships are available for home, EU and international students. Specific funding is also available for students from the local area. International students may be eligible for a fee reduction. We offer means-tested funding, as well as subject-specific funding for many degrees.
Find out what scholarships and bursaries are available to you.
Support from Queen Mary
We offer specialist support on all financial and welfare issues through our Advice and Counselling Service, which you can access as soon as you have applied for a place at Queen Mary.
Take a look at our Student Advice Guides which cover ways to finance your degree, including:
- additional sources of funding
- planning your budget and cutting costs
- part-time and vacation work
- money for lone parents.
Careers
Our English graduates go on to work in all sorts of sectors, including teaching, publishing, media and communications, and arts and heritage. Some of our most well-known alumni include authors Sarah Waters, JG Ballard and Conn Iggulden, and TV comedy writer James Lamont.
Recent graduates from the School of English and Drama have gone on to work for:
- Harper Collins
- Historic Royal Palaces
- The Independent
- London and Partners
- Penguin Random House
- Shakespeare’s Globe.
Career support
You’ll have access to bespoke careers support during every step of your English degree, and a practical third-year module will prepare you for the transition from university to working life by researching career, entrepreneurial and postgraduate study prospects.
The Department of English has strong links with the worlds of publishing, performance and poetry, and experts regularly deliver talks and lectures.
Our careers team can also offer:
- specialist advice on choosing a career path
- support with finding work experience, internships and graduate jobs
- feedback on CVs, cover letters and application forms
- interview coaching.
Learn more about career support and development at Queen Mary.
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About the School
The School of the Arts combines innovation, discovery and excellence in education and research in Drama, Film, Modern Languages, English & Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Linguistics and Liberal Arts. We rank in the top 100 worldwide for Arts and Humanities (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024)
With our commitment to social justice, inclusivity and social mobility, our collaborations with external organisations, prominent writers and performers, and our facilities that support both academic and practice-based learning, an education in the School of the Arts equips our students with critical thinking and practical skills, unleashes their imagination and enables them to reach the levels of excellence needed in today’s industries.
We regularly host prominent writers and performers and collaborate with leading organisations such as the V&A, the Barbican, the Live Art Development Agency and Shakespeare’s Globe.
We are renowned for the depth and impact of research - which leads our teaching. We rank 1st for drama and in the top 10 for film in the UK for the quality of our research (REF2021). Our multilingual community brings together brilliant minds from across the world to share a wealth of expertise combining research excellence with an unrivalled commitment to social justice and social mobility.