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"Bolton isn't like anywhere else. Everything they do is about the students."
If you’re a little curious about studying English or Creative Writing at Bolton, you can try a small sample course for free. You’ll get individual, tailored feedback on your work, so you can see what it’s like as a student at Bolton and see your own strengths in the field.
"Bolton isn't like anywhere else. Everything they do is about the students."
English
BA (Hons)
Love literature? Cultivate your interests in the exciting worlds of fiction, poetry, and drama.
Creative Writing
BA (Hons)
Passionate about words? Develop your creativity for fiction, poetry or scriptwriting.
English &
Creative Writing
BA (Hons)
A combination of both courses, develop and enhance your expression and communication.
English
BA (Hons)
Love literature? Cultivate your interests in the exciting worlds of fiction, poetry, and drama.
Creative Writing
BA (Hons)
Passionate about words? Develop your creativity for fiction, poetry or scriptwriting.
English &
Creative Writing
BA (Hons)
A combination of both courses, develop and enhance your expression and communication.
Join a respected and long-running degree programme in the North West, taught by supportive, highly qualified tutors and professional writers, designed to harness your creativity and inspire you.
Watch Dr Evan Jones explain our courses and how they work below:
Join a respected and long-running degree programme in the North West, taught by supportive, highly qualified tutors and professional writers, designed to harness your creativity and inspire you.
Watch Dr Evan Jones explain our courses and how they work below:
BA (Hons) Creative Writing
Are you passionate words? How they can inform, persuade, provoke or terrify? Our Creative Writing degree, taught by a team of professional writers, aims to develop your writing and harness your creativity so you can turn your ideas and ambitions into achievements.
BA (Hons) English
A respected and long-running degree programme in the North-west, taught by supportive, highly qualified tutors in the field of literature. We work to cultivate your interests in the exciting worlds of fiction, poetry, and drama.
BA (Hons) English & Creative Writing
Our English and Creative Writing degree is designed to inspire and develop your interest for the vast and enriching world of literature and ideas. You’ll have extensive opportunities to develop and enhance your own approaches to expression and communication.
Lecturers
BA (Hons) Creative Writing
Are you passionate words? How they can inform, persuade, provoke or terrify? Our Creative Writing degree, taught by a team of professional writers, aims to develop your writing and harness your creativity so you can turn your ideas and ambitions into achievements.
BA (Hons) English
A respected and long-running degree programme in the North-west, taught by supportive, highly qualified tutors in the field of literature. We work to cultivate your interests in the exciting worlds of fiction, poetry, and drama.
BA (Hons) English & Creative Writing
Our English and Creative Writing degree is designed to inspire and develop your interest for the vast and enriching world of literature and ideas. You’ll have extensive opportunities to develop and enhance your own approaches to expression and communication.
"The English and Creative Writing staff are amazing. They go above and beyond for their students; the lecturers always give you the support you need which helps you grow as a student and an individual."
Soti Erekosima, English & Creative Writing BA (Hons) student
"The English and Creative Writing staff are amazing. They go above and beyond for their students; the lecturers always give you the support you need which helps you grow as a student and an individual."
Soti Erekosima, English & Creative Writing BA (Hons) student
100% Student Satisfaction for four years in a row
Join a course led by varied, specialist lecturers dedicated to making sure you have the best experience possible.
100%
Overall Student Satisfaction. National Student Survey (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
100%
Teaching and Learning. National Student Survey (2019)
1st
1st in the UK for Student Satisfaction. The Complete University Guide (2021)
2nd
2nd in subject overall in the UK. Guardian League Table (2020)
Lecturers
Professor Jill Marsden
Professor of Literature and Philosophy
Dr Evan Jones
Lecturer in English
Dr Kim Edwards Keates
Lecturer in English
Dr Ben Wilkinson
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Dr Valerie O'Riordan
Programme Leader
Ed Jones
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Bríd Andrews
Senior Lecturer in English, Media and Film