In 2011 UEA's Creative Writing programme was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, the UK's most prestigious higher education award, in recognition of its continuing excellence in delivering innovative courses at a world-class level.

The UK's first MA in Creative Writing was established at UEA by the novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson in 1970.  The UK's first PhD in Creative and Critical Writing followed in 1987.  Creative Writing at undergraduate level has been taught informally since the 1960s and formally since 1995. 

Situated in Norwich, England's only UNESCO City of Literature, each of our Creative Writing courses offers an opportunity to develop as a writer in relation to the wider social and literary context, to work under pressure of deadlines, to share the experience of writing with colleagues in a supportive creative and critical atmosphere, and to be taught by writers of established reputation.

A look at the roll call of our alumni will suggest something of the spirit and direction of Creative Writing at UEA, as well as its diversity.

The work of our students, alumni, faculty and visiting writers can be found on #newwriting.net, published in partnership with Writers' Centre Norwich.