Creative Writing

The Department of English has an outstanding international reputation. Our postgraduate researchers benefit from strong research-led teaching covering a wide and continuous range of writing. When you study a PhD in Creative Writing, you'll be equipped with the critical and communication skills and the capacity for adaptable intelligence which are in demand in all areas of modern life. At the University of Liverpool, ‘English’ is the study of the interlinked activities and histories of speaking, listening, writing, reading, and communicating, in a global language of many variants and in literatures of many types. Engagement with media has allowed our researchers to be at the forefront of developing a rich cultural agenda at national and international levels, opening access to literature to a diverse audience. This has resulted in four staff members succeeding in theNew Generation Thinkersscheme. We also actively support impact in terms of reaching the general reader, through the publication of research in various, high-profile formats. The impact of such intervention into the nation’s cultural life creates new and evolving long-term contexts for thinking, understanding, writing and imagining. Many of our academics specialise in contemporary literature that overlaps with science fiction, climate change, visual arts, comics and graphic novels, and travel and nature writing, as well as psychogeography and the urban environment.Our creative writersare leading practitioners, but they’re also critics who play an important role in responding to contemporary writing in scholarly monographs, journals, literary magazines and newspapers. Members of the department have also judged significant national and international literary prizes including the Man Booker Prize, the Costa prize and the T.S. Eliot prize. We particularly welcome proposals that match those of our researchers. Our research themes are: See ourstaff listto explore our research specialisms. Ranked top 10 in the UK

TOEFL iBT: If you took a TOEFL test on or before 20 January 2026, you’ll need 100 overall, with minimum scores of listening 24, writing 24, reading 24 and speaking 26. If you took a TOEFL test from 21 January 2026 onwards, when a new scoring system was introduced, you’ll need 5 overall, with 5 or above in all components. TOEFL Home Edition not accepted. Pearson PTE Academic: 69 overall, with no component below 69

International students: Full-time place, per year - £25,350; Part-time: £12,650

UK students: Full-time place, per year - £5,238; Part-time: £2,619

UK/Home: Full-time place, per year - £5,238; Part-time: £2,619

International: Full-time place, per year - £25,350; Part-time: £12,650

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• Liverpool, United Kingdom