School of English

Write, create, perform

Whether you're an aspiring writer, actor, director, blogger or poet, at Nottingham there are creative opportunities abound for you to develop your skills, widen your experience, and meet like-minded people.

 

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 Creative Writing and Drama in The School of English

 

Meet the Team

Meet the Team

Meet the staff that make up the Creative Writing and Drama team and learn more about the skills and experience they bring in order to help enhance student experience in the School of English.

 

The Letters Page

The Letters Page

An online journal with a difference: the featured stories, essays, poems, interviews and reportage are all written in the form of letters!

Creative Writing Society

Creative Writing Society

Develop your skills and write as part of the Creative Writing Society.

 
Nottingham New Theatre

Nottingham New Theatre

Write, direct, perform, or work backstage at the first student-run theatre in England.

Impact magazine

Impact Magazine

Write for the official student magazine at the University of Nottingham and see your name in print.

 
Words on Words blog

Words on Words blog

Develop your own writing style and share your student experience by contributing to the School of English blog.

 

Download the Creative Writing at Nottingham brochure (PDF)

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Creative Careers

Five Local Publishers You Can Submit To (Careers Blog)

News

Fiction and the Archive: An Interview with Juliet Jacques

Description
In February 2025, we sat down with Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir (2015), Variations (2021), and The Woman in the Portrait (2024), among other works. We discussed her work, its scope, and its influences. We talked about trans experience and how that shapes and is shaped by fictional writing, the influence of political and artistic movements on Jacques' own fiction, modernist film and literature, trans and LGBTQ representation in the media, and much more. The emerging theme of the interview is that of the archive, which here stands as something to be researched, re-purposed, and invented anew, all with the aim of creating both a new aesthetic and drawing important political and cultural lessons. The interview was conducted by Joel Evans (School of English, University of Nottingham) in the company of a live audience.

Our students longlisted for the Aurora Prize for Writing!

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Congratulations to Cathy Symes, Lauren Colley and Lucile Deslignères, all current School of English students who have been longlisted for the Aurora Prize for Writing! The Aurora Prize is a national writing competition run by Writing East Midlands, in partnership with the Society of Authors, that has run since 2016 and seeks outstanding new writing in short fiction and poetry. The judges for this year are best-selling crime novelist Vaseem Khan for the Short Fiction category and esteemed poet and author Andrew McMillan for the Poetry category, the winners will be announced at the award ceremony on the 30th October 2024.

Events

Creative Writing Workshop 10.12.25

Date
10/12/2025
Location:
University Park Campus University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD
 

School of English

Trent Building
The University of Nottingham
University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 5900
email: english-enquiries@nottingham.ac.uk