If you're looking to explore your passion for the written word and to understand more about the professions surrounding it, then City offers many creative writing courses in the heart of London, from evening classes to postgraduate degrees and a doctoral programme.
We offer an undergraduate degree in English and master's degrees in English, Publishing and Creative Writing, as well as a new two-year MFA in Creative Writing.
City also runs a series of adult education short courses in creative writing that run in the evenings.
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All of our creative writing courses include input from practicing writers and publishing professionals, and our academic staff are all active researchers in their field.
The innovative course design and expert teaching mean that City can help you develop the skills needed in today’s academic world and writing and publishing industries.
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How to become an editor
Editors work on newspapers, magazines, books or websites to ensure content is consistent, grammatically correct and easily readable.
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Short courses in Creative Writing
Our courses are taught by professional authors and editors and our practical creative writing courses will help you explore your writing and develop your storytelling skills.
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What's happening
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Event
Jun 12
Nonfiction Creative Writing Taster Seminar
This taster seminar looks at the American writer Maggie Nelson’s phenomenally successful, genre-defying memoir The Argonauts.
, 17:00 – 18:00
Location: Online
Audience: Prospective students; Public
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News
In conversation with Esther Phillips, Poet Laureate of Barbados
City welcomes Esther Phillips to discuss her ambassadorial role as Poet Laureate and deliver readings about slavery and migration.
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City academic publishes first in hotly tipped novel trilogy
Dr Joe Thomas, who lectures in Creative Writing at City, University of London, is the author of a gritty new crime trilogy with Arcadia Books
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