德蒙福特大學

Find your voice and discover your own creative writing path through studying with us at DMU. By embedding stimulating themes throughout our distinctive course structure we give you the opportunity to develop skills across fiction, poetry, memoir, the graphic novel, screenwriting, non-fiction, audio and performance writing, concrete poetry and new media. The joint honours option includes Drama which combines performance, theory and contextual study. You will have opportunities to act, script, direct and study the history of different theatrical traditions.The value of Joint Honours Creative Writing is that your writing stays fresh, whilst receiving additional impetus (and skills) from a complimentary academic discipline. Your writing needs to be fed ideas and varied stimuli, and all the Joint pathways are carefully chosen because they enhance your writing practice.You’ll examine the relationship between word, image, and sound and, by the end of your course, you won’t just be writing – you’ll also be producing your own professional-standard publications. As a final confidence boost we include final-year voice coaching to help you leave DMU as a self-assured public performer.**Key Features:*** Become part of regional writing networks and perform and publish your work through events such as our book fair, States of Independence, DMU’s Cultural eXchanges festival, and take advantage of spoken word events.* You’ll learn from successful working writers and industry professionals. Recent guest speakers include our visiting professor, poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah, novelist Mahsuda Snaith, literary agent Oli Munson and non-fiction author Damian Le Bas.* Benefit from our long-standing partnership with Leicester’s iconic Curve ?theatre. Opportunities include internships, work placements and the chance to work on or perform in an annual production, ?which have included ?A Clockwork ?Orange, ?The Crucible,? and ?Enron.* DMU is recognised as a Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts, with our sophisticated facilities ?providing specialist studios and rehearsal spaces designed specifically for drama and performance learning activities.* Work beyond classroom boundaries in a variety of stimulating settings to promote creativity, including urban walk workshops, museum trips and ghost story workshops in a deconsecrated chapel.* We’re ranked in the top 10 Creative Writing courses in the UK for graduate prospects, according to the Complete University Guide 2021.* Take part in an overseas trip with DMU Global, our international experience programme. On a walking tour of Berlin we asked students to consider the theme of borders and exile, while others held a scavenger hunt in the New York Public Library and another trip discovered Danish literature in Copenhagen.