Post-Graduate Diploma - Creative and Critical Writing

Students will choose their own path through the Post-Graduate Diploma in Creative and Critical Writing, focusing either on creative or literary critical writing, or a combination of both.

Graduates will work with practicing authors, poets, and playwrights – as well as leaders in the field of literary criticism – to develop their own distinctive voice. They will develop as a writer, not only in the classroom, but in the world, and they will be advised on the routes they can take to publication. Modules with a more academic focus allow them to engage with literary theory and academic studies of influential writers’ work.

Students have the opportunity to edit and produce the annual university anthology and the University of Gloucestershire's close links with Cheltenham Festivals may offer performance opportunities throughout the year.