Creative Writing BA (Hons)
Kingston University London
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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**Reasons to choose Kingston**- Many of our graduates have had their work published. Recently, Oyinkan Braithwaites multi-award winning debut novel My Sister, The Serial Killer, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019.- This course covers a range of formats, including digital writing, fiction and creative non-fiction, poetry, and screenwriting.- Workshops will allow you to hone your writing craft, while lectures and seminars will give you the tools you need to develop your own creativity.- To ...Read more


Reasons to choose Kingston

- Many of our graduates have had their work published. Recently, Oyinkan Braithwaite's multi-award winning debut novel My Sister, The Serial Killer, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019.- This course covers a range of formats, including digital writing, fiction and creative non-fiction, poetry, and screenwriting.- Workshops will allow you to hone your writing craft, while lectures and seminars will give you the tools you need to develop your own creativity.- To help you master the kinds of writing that interest you most, you can choose to study works of literature or film.- Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.


About this course

This course is intellectually stimulating and exciting, designed to provide you with opportunities for creative writing across a variety of genres and media, embracing poetry, prose fiction and non-fiction, professional writing, and writing for radio and screen.You'll work with published writers, academics and industry professionals on writing for digital media, pitches, exhibitions, reviews, and articles.You will be able to take modules that allow you to explore a variety of literary topics and texts in depth. If your main interests lie in writing for and about film and television, you can elect to take the degree’s film pathway, on which you’ll study film in depth.


Future Skills

Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability. As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge. At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.


Career opportunities

Graduates from this course go on to work in creative writing, digital media, curation, public relations, journalism, publishing, communications, teaching and the civil service. Some of our alumni have become published authors.

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Creative Writing
WUSCA ranking:
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95/101
CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
15th
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2025
88th
Creative Writing
Drop-out rate
Drop-out rate
The percentage of students who didn't finish the course.
Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 90 = 10% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
10%
Employment rate
Employment rate
The percentage of students in full-time work 6 months after finishing their course.
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
70%
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Average salary
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Creative Writing graduate salary at this uni
£18,000
UK Creative Writing graduate salary
£20,000
What students say
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Imogen
22 Oct 24

Everyone on my course is very welcoming and I feel very supported by staff. My only complaints are that my commute is long which makes it difficult for me to get up on days when I..Read more

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Katie
22 Oct 24

Great amount of space and facilities Lots of events and access to information..Read more

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A level

A level:

BBC - ABB Grades / Points required

UCAS Tariff:

112 - 128 Grades / Points required

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

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T Level:

M Grades / Points required

Or A Levels at equivalent to 112 - 128 UCAS points.

*112-128 UCAS points, to include two A levels or equivalent, with English Language/Literature/related subject (32 points required). General Studies/Native Language accepted when one of three A levels or equivalent.BTEC: We will consider a range of alternative qualifications or experience that are equivalent to the typical offerGCSE: candidates are normally required to hold five GCSE subjects grades A*–C including Mathematics and English Language (or comparable numeric score under the newly reformed GCSE grading).Access diploma: We will consider a range of alternative qualifications or experience that are equivalent to the typical offer.

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Popular A-level subjects

Creative Writing

Top 5 A-levels taken by students who study this subject at uni.

English Literature
54%
English Language
30%
Media Studies
20%
Drama
20%
Psychology
18%
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England

£9,250 per year

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Scotland

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Wales

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£9,250 per year

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Students from Northern Ireland

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Imogen
22 Oct 24
Creative Writing BA (Hons)
Everyone on my course is very welcoming and I feel very supported by staff. My only complaints are that my commute is long which makes it difficult for me to get up on days when I...
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Katie
22 Oct 24
Creative Writing BA (Hons)
Great amount of space and facilities Lots of events and access to information...
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Kingston University London
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