Find your voice with English and creative writing
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body" – Joseph Addison 'The Tatler', 1709

You can join one of our single honours courses, or take the opportunity to combine English as your major subject with Spanish, French or History.
For postgraduates, on our MA and MRes programmes you can experience a diverse and challenging degree in literary and cultural studies.
Published by the University of Plymouth Press, and supported by English and Creative Writing staff, INK is entirely edited and produced by our students.
The process of producing INK is as important as the end product. It's the chance for you to publish your creative work in a literary magazine.
Read a sample copy of INKA group of our current third year English students have been given a fantastic opportunity to act as a judging panel for the Plymouth Writers’ Group international short story competition.
Plymouth Writers Group (PWG) are a local community group with some 20 members, including staff and former students, at the University of Plymouth. Four years ago PWG approached the English and Creative Writing Department, and offered a collaboration in respect of their intention to run a Short Story Competition.
Find out more about the competition
The research interests of the English and creative writing department at Plymouth range from the early modern period to the present and cover a diverse set of approaches and priorities based primarily in imagination, judgement and representation.
We are particularly interested in developing interdisciplinary projects across a range of themes and topics, including: the transnational and the transatlantic, environmental literatures, poetry and poetics, and scientific discourses.
Through our world-leading and internationally recognised research, we are making significant interventions in local, national and international cultural and creative industries.
Professor of Modern Literature, Angela K Smith, talks about her research and publications relating to Women’s writing and experience of the First World War, women’s suffrage and war and memory