BA Creative Writing
About this course
BA in English with Creative Writing. Core topics include Research Methods. The course provides access to the National Library of Wales, one of the UK's five copyright libraries. A final-year writing retreat at a country house in mid Wales offers dedicated time for developing projects and dissertations.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB-BCC IB: 30-28
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What students say
Based on about 13 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 85%
- Learning opportunities: 84%
- Assessment and feedback: 85%
- Academic support: 90%
- Organisation and management: 83%
- Learning resources: 91%
- Student voice: 78%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 100%
What graduates do next
Based on about 8 graduates who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 80%
- Working and studying: 5%
- Further study: 5%
Most common jobs
- Sales occupations: 20%
- Media Professionals: 10%
- Administrative occupations: 10%
- Teaching and Childcare Support Occupation: 10%
- Elementary occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 40%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 10%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 10%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 120 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 8%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 4%
- East Midlands: 4%
- West Midlands: 21%
- East of England: 8%
- London: 10%
- South East: 8%
- South West: 10%
- Wales: 24%
- Scotland: 2%
- Northern Ireland: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 20 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 85%
- Other HE qualification: 10%
- No formal qualifications: 5%
Modules
- Beginning Creative Writing
- Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- American Literature 1800-2000
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Practice
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- Introduction to Poetry
- Language Awareness for TESOL
- Literature And The Sea
- Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
- Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
- A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- Adventures with Poetry
- Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Modernisms
- Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- Literature since the '60s
- Place and Self
- Reading the Classroom: from the Nursery to the University
- Shaping Plots
- Short stories: Grit and Candour
- TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
- Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- Writing Selves
- Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- Independent Research Project
- Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- Crisis Writing
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
- Haunting Texts
- Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- Literatures of Surveillance
- Poetry for today
- Post-Colonial African Literature in English
- Reading Theory / Reading Text
- Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
- The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- Victorian Childhoods
- Writing Crime Fiction
- Writing Horror
- Writing and Place
- Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University earn?
The median salary is £23,000 after 15 months, £18,500 after 3 years, £22,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £18,000 and £27,000. The £22,500 median after five years is £1,000 less than the UK median for Creative writing.
What do graduates of BA Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University do next?
95% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University?
85% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University?
The typical offer is BBB at A level. The average entrant had 102 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University?
100% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.