Creative writing and publishing at City, University of London

The skills and knowledge you gain from studying Creative Writing and Publishing can set you on a career as an author, publisher or in a range of other roles.

Explore our creative writing and publishing courses

Career perspectives

If you're looking to explore your passion for the written word and understand more about the professions surround them then City has a rich course offering.

City has a variety of courses help you develop a professional standard creative writing piece, as well as the business acumen needed to understand the world of publishing and professional writing.

Our Department of English houses masters in English, Creative Writing and our well renowned publishing courses. This sits within a school with Journalism, Media and Cultural and Creative Industries. City also offers a series of adult education short courses in creative writing.

All of our courses include input from practicing writers, publishers and our academic staff are active researchers in the area. All of which helps you develop the skills recognised in the professional writing and publishing industries.

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Facilities

Our flexible learning spaces offer better environment for project and group work which often are done along side practising publishers.
Across the university, there are various multi-use communal spaces where you can meet and share ideas.
We work in close connection with our colleagues at City Library, which consist of around 250,000 books with over 25,000 online journal titles and over 1600 study places available.
As part of the University of London, City students have access to Senate House Library.