Contemporary Writing

From modernist and post-war women’s writing to Caribbean and migrant fiction, our research interests span a wide range of areas aimed at understanding how literature affects wider society. We offer a Contemporary Writing degree at Brunel University London.

Contemporary Writing Contemporary Writing at Brunel University London Brunel University London is a leader in the field, which has for many years now ranked in the top 10% of Creative Writing degrees in the UK. We have some of Britain’s most celebrated, talented, original, and experienced writers actively publishing in the industry today, including Benjamin Zephaniah, Will Self, Bernardine Evaristo, Christopher Fox, Geoff King, Fiona Templeton and many more, having published over 80 powerfully diverse books between them and written for all the national newspapers. 

Features 

• Our particular areas of strength include modern and contemporary literature, Shakespeare, Renaissance studies, Victorian literature and culture, and world literature in English.

Courses include: 

• Poetry, Including For Performance
• Women’s And Multicultural Writing
• Horror And Thriller Writing
• Post-colonial Fiction
• Children’s/ Ya Fiction
• Non-fiction