"Bolton isn't like anywhere else. Everything they do is about the students."
Our Courses
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 with the exciting worlds of fiction, poetry, and drama.
BA (Hons) Creative Writing
Passionate about words? How they can inform, persuade, provoke or terrify? Our Creative Writing degree will develop your writing and harness your creativity for fiction or poetry.
BA (Hons) English
Love literature? We cultivate your interests in the exciting worlds of fiction, poetry, and drama building a vast and enriching world of literature and ideas.
BA (Hons) English & Creative Writing
Combining the best of both courses, you’ll also have extensive opportunities to develop and enhance your own approaches to expression and communication.
Literally, the best in the country
We’re ranked 1st in the UK for Student Satisfaction and Student Experience, with a 100% positive NSS score for the third year in a row. If you want to study English, Creative Writing or for a degree combining both subjects, do it with us!
100%
Overall Student Satisfaction.
National Student Survey (2019)
100%
100% Teaching and Learning.
National Student Survey (2019)
2nd
2nd in subject overall in the UK.
Guardian League Table (2020)
1st
1st in the UK for Student Satisfaction. The Complete University Guide (2021)
100%
Overall Student Satisfaction. National Student Survey (2019)
2nd
2nd in subject overall in the UK. Guardian League Table (2020)
100%
100% Teaching and Learning. National Student Survey (2019)
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.
English & Creative Writing Blog
"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
Lecturers
Dr Jill Marsden
Programme Leader
Dr Evan Jones
Lecturer in English
Dr Kim Edwards Keates
Lecturer in English
Dr Ben Wilkinson
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Dr Valerie O'Riordan
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Ed Jones
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Bríd Andrews
Lecturer in English, Media and Film
Dr Simon Holloway
Lecturer in Creative Writing