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**Whether you want to write science fiction, poetry, or for the stage or screen, our Creative Writing degree will support your development as a professional writer.**Explore complex types of communication, digital literacy and innovative storytelling, developing your skills in these areas.You’ll become part of our vibrant ARU writing community, including postgraduates and alumni, helping you build your professional network and the entrepreneurial skills you’ll need for freelancing and portfolio careers.Based in the Cambridge School of Creative Industries, you’ll be surrounded by professionals with expertise in performance, film, games, publishing, and digital media.Get invaluable feedback on all your written work from professional writers, including our teaching staff and Royal Literary Fund fellows.Attend guest lectures by visiting authors, editors, agents, and other writing-industry professionals.Join our Cambridge Writing Centre events to showcase your writing and make new contacts.Develop skills needed by industry and the professional environment on our Careers in Writing module.Our Business of Being a Writer module will help you understand the path to getting published.We'll help you find placements and work experience, and you can even opt to take a placement year.**Careers**At ARU, you’ll get invaluable feedback on all your written work from professional writers - including our Royal Literary Fund fellows - and other students, giving you the opportunity to consider a range of responses and sharpen your critical skills.You’ll also develop skills including literacy, communication, research, creative thinking, self-reliance and teamwork. These can help you start a career in many areas, from film, games development and journalism, to publishing, digital media and marketing.You’ll also have opportunities to take part in collaborative projects, like our HMS Belfast project with Imperial War Museums to commemorate D-Day, and 60 Second Shakespeare with the Globe theatre, London.By the time you graduate, you’ll have built up your own professional network and entrepreneurial skills required for freelancing and portfolio careers.An enhanced CV for you to present to future employers and clients. You’ll also develop transferable skills such as research, teamwork, communication, problem solving, and resourcefulness. These skills are invaluable in other areas of the creative industries, and in other sectors.Graduation doesn’t have to be the end of your time with us. You might decide to stay at ARU and study for a Masters, such as our renowned MA Creative Writing or MA Creative Writing and Publishing. Take advantage of our Alumni Scholarship and get 20% off your fees.**Teaching**In your first year, you’ll take five introductory modules designed to bring all students to a similar level of subject knowledge and competence. Learn how to reflect on your own practice and assess your own writing work, developing skills around self-concept and personal narrative.In year 2 you’ll deepen your reflective practice and self-assessment, as well as investigating online methods of finding markets and literary agents and enhancing the digital and information literacy needed to be a successful working writer.Your final year will involve mostly independent, self-directed work, focusing largely on your Major Project.
