English and Creative Writing degrees in Clearing at Goldsmiths

Why study English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths?

• You'll be encouraged to explore literature beyond the canon – from the impact of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements on 21st-century literature, to the role of the British Empire in the 18th- and 19th-century novel
• You'll travel across histories, cultures, and languages and be encouraged to engage in a huge variety of debates around topics like gender and sexual identity, the Transatlantic slave trade, climate change, feminism, and philosophical ideas about what it means to be human across time 
• Our syllabus covers a diverse range of writing and writers, and you'll be taken on a thrilling journey from the Caribbean, New York, and Victorian London, to the American South via 1980s Northern Ireland, South Korea, Zimbabwe, Belarus, India, and Algeria
• Our graduates have gone on to win prestigious awards including The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and the Orange Prize for
  Fiction, while others are now working as publicity directors, content producers, marketing officers, editors and teachers
• London is the perfect place to study this subject – home to writers from Zadie Smith to Charles Dickens, you'll be able to wander the neighbourhoods where your favourite books and plays have been set, and you'll be connected to the city's vibrant publishing scene

Why choose Goldsmiths, University of London?

Goldsmiths was founded in 1891 and has been part of the University of London for 120 years. Alongside this history comes an innovative and creative approach to the subjects you can study, and a commitment to social and environmental justice. 

As a Goldsmiths student you'll enjoy a single-site campus in New Cross, South East London. It's in Zone 2 and just 10 minutes by train to Central or East London. So you can access the best of the world's top student city while still enjoying a friendly and supportive student community.