BA English Literature with Creative Writing
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Creative Writing. The programme includes a final-year creative writing project, modules on film and visual culture, and coverage of Shakespeare, medieval, Victorian, and twentieth-century literature. Specialised writing options are available in fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and scriptwriting.
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Entry requirements
A level: AAB (Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, or English Literature)
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What students say
Based on about 27 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 94%
- Learning opportunities: 84%
- Assessment and feedback: 81%
- Academic support: 96%
- Organisation and management: 83%
- Learning resources: 91%
- Student voice: 79%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 20 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 95%
What graduates do next
Based on about 8 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 65%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Unemployed: 15%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 17%
- Teaching Professionals: 14%
- Administrative occupations: 13%
- Media Professionals: 9%
- Elementary occupations: 8%
- Find their work meaningful: 65%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 59%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 53%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 275 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 2%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 1%
- East Midlands: 2%
- West Midlands: 4%
- East of England: 3%
- London: 17%
- South East: 14%
- South West: 20%
- Wales: 36%
- Scotland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 20 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Modules
- Transforming Visions: Text and Image
- Reading Up Close
- Ways of Reading: Literature, Culture, Theory
- Creative Writing I
- Creative Writing II
- Writing at University and Beyond
- Shakespeare's Worlds
- Twentieth-century Literature: Conflict, Crisis, Experimentation
- Victorian Worlds: Forms of Transformation
- Contemporary Literature and Culture: States of Emergency
- Eighteenth-century and Romantic Poetry and Prose
- Britain and Beyond: Literatures of the Medieval World
- Seen and Unseen: Tracing the (In)visible in Film and Visual Culture
- Feminisms
- Literature, Science and Environment
- Uncanny Encounters: Gothic and Culture from the 1760s to the Present
- Race, Empire, Nation
- A History of Books from Parchment to Pixel
- Creative Writing: Experiments in Fiction
- Creative Writing: Poetry: Craft and Construction
- Creative Writing: Screenwriting
- Creative Writing: Writing Genre Fiction
- Creative Writing: Storytelling in a Digital World
- Creative Writing Project
- Literature for All
- Dafydd ap Gwilym a'i Gyfnod
- Llenyddiaeth Plant
- Stori Pwy? Cyfathrebu Cymru
- Literature and Science
- Gender and Monstrosity: Late/Neo Victorian
- Utopia: Suffrage to Cyberpunk
- Postcolonial Theory
- Military Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Island Stories: Literatures of the North Atlantic
- American Poetry after Modernism
- John Milton
- Apocalypse Then and Now
- Activist Poetry: Protest, Dissent, Resistance
- Visions of the Future: Climate Change & Fiction
- Romantic Circles: Collaboration, Radicalism and Creativity 1770-1830
- Shakespeare's Fractured Britain
- Visions of Past and Future in Children’s Books
- The Medieval Supernatural: Death, Demons and Ghosts
- Literature and Psychology: To Freud and Beyond
- 'And the Winner is...' The Role of Literary Prizes
- Cinema Across Asia
- Sound Encounters in the Medieval World
- Whodunnit? British Crime Fiction: Text, Screen and Sound
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English Literature with Creative Writing at Cardiff University earn?
The median salary is £25,500 after 15 months, £23,000 after 3 years, £28,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £23,500 and £34,000. The £28,500 median after five years is £500 more than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA English Literature with Creative Writing at Cardiff University do next?
75% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English Literature with Creative Writing at Cardiff University?
94% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA English Literature with Creative Writing at Cardiff University?
The typical offer is AAB at A level. The average entrant had 142 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA English Literature with Creative Writing at Cardiff University?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.