Creative Writing Keele University

Overview

The Creative Writing degree from Keele University provides an excellent foundation for further doctoral (PhD) training or academia, here in the UK, Europe or the rest of the world. The excellent communication skills you develop can doors to careers in publishing, culture, heritage, marketing, public relations or copywriting.

Career opportunities:

Many of our graduates have gone on to become successful poets and novelists; some are dedicated to spreading the positive vibes that creative writing can bring.

Take Gabriella Gay, for example, who chose to set up a writers residency at Hanley car boot sale while studying, or the ‘Emergency Poet’ Deborah Alma. As well as sharing poetry from the back of a vintage ambulance at festivals, conferences, hospitals and care settings, libraries and schools, Deborah has transformed a disused Edwardian shop in Shropshire into a walk-in pharmacy dispensing poetry.

Throughout your studies, you will be encouraged to reflect on the academic, creative and general skills you are developing and, more importantly, how you can articulate these skills in applications and interviews.

Taking your studies to postgraduate level develops a range of personal and professional skills, including clear and critical thinking, originality, problem-solving, innovative questioning and, of course, excellent communication. Much sought-after by employers, these skills can open doors to a wide range of careers from teaching to management consulting.

Our graduates typically go on to work in fields such as agenting, bookselling, culture and heritage, education, marketing, communications, public relations, publishing, copywriting, and information management. Some, like Stephen Seabridge, also go on to complete PhDs here at Keele or elsewhere. Stephen was named as the Potteries first poet laureate 2018-2021 shortly after embarking on his PhD studies in creative writing and currently contributes to teaching on the MA.

Positions may include:

• Academic
• Author
• Copywriter
• Curator
• Events manager
• Marketing executive
• Novelist
• Poet
• Philosopher
• PR Officer
• Researcher
• Teacher