Whether you’re looking to develop your own writing skills and editorial practice for your profession or for purely personal interest, our creative writing courses have much to offer you.
Creative Writing Courses
Whether you’re looking to develop your own writing skills and editorial practice for your profession or for purely personal interest, our creative writing courses have much to offer you.
Choose below from our range of qualifications.
Why Study Creative Writing With The Open University?
Since 2003, over 50,000 students have completed one of our critically acclaimed creative writing modules.
The Benefits Of Studying Creative Writing With Us Are:
Develops your writing skills in several genres including fiction, poetry, life writing and scriptwriting.
Introduces you to the world of publishing and the requirements of professionally presenting manuscripts.
Online tutor-group forums enable you to be part of an interactive writing community.
Module workbooks are widely praised and used by other universities and have attracted worldwide sales.
Careers In Creative Writing
Studying creative writing will equip you with an adaptable set of skills that can give entry to a vast range of occupations. You’ll learn to evaluate and assimilate information in constructing an argument as well as acquiring the skills of creative and critical thinking that are much in demand in the workplace.
Our range of courses in creative writing can help you start or progress your career as a:
Writer
Copywriter
Journalist
The Open University is a global leader in higher education able to reach every adult in the United Kingdom - and many others across the world.
In 1969 one ambition changed the world, giving anyone, anywhere the power to learn. Established by the Royal Charter (pdf 235kb) and globally recognised,
The Open University has pioneered distance learning for over 50 years, delivering exceptional teaching and outstanding support to students across the UK and the world.
A six-week creative writing course for women and non-binary writers of all experiences and abilities, Ignite will help you reduce fear of the blank page, push through doubt and lead you through essential writing techniques, such as characterisation, dialogue and creating dynamic settings.
Our MA in Creative Writing: Writing and Publishing Fiction is a stimulating and rewarding course designed to help you develop the craft of excellent writing, enable you to produce original fiction, and equip you with the knowledge to get it published.
The aim of this five week course is to help both the beginner and the more advanced writer to develop and improve their writing skills in a range of different areas, including short story writing, flash fiction, poetry and the writing of a novel.
By the end of this training session, you will feel confident in how to write strong applications for funding for your small organisation. Come along to find out how to design, edit and check over bid applications, to increase your organisation's chances of success in securing funding.
We’ve all become increasingly aware of the importance of language in creating inclusive and equitable work cultures. Words matter, and many words and phrases seem antiquated and even shocking today.
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