Stage and screen
Part-time courses
Explore your creativity or examine the works of others – learn the art of writing for screen and performance, or dive into the work of cinema icons such as Hitchcock, Lynch and Pressburger.
Browse through our collection of upcoming courses in film and creative writing below.
Upcoming courses
Online - flexible • Short courses
This course introduces the key characteristics of creative writing. You will be supported with stage-by-stage guidance as you assimilate and employ a range of critical and creative methods. The course includes tutor feedback and participant discussion.
- Wed 17 Apr 2024 – 28 Jun 2024
In-person weekly • Short courses
This course offers an account of the most significant themes and examples of popular science fiction cinema from the 1980s to the present, exploring powerful new imaginings of the impact of radical technological change on human identity and society.
- Tue 23 Apr 2024 – Tue 25 Jun 2024
- 10 meetings
- 7:00 – 9:00pm
In-person weekly • Short courses
Explore writing dialogue for fiction, stage, radio and screen, and write a piece of your own in one of these formats.
- Wed 24 Apr 2024 – Wed 26 Jun 2024
- 10 meetings
- 10:30am – 12:30pm
Summer schools • Short courses
A workshop-based course exploring the key skills required to create an original and compelling stage drama, with reference to current creative practice in new writing in professional theatres.
- Sun 14 Jul 2024 – 20 Jul 2024
Online - live • Short courses
Work actively to understand key screenwriting concepts to build your awareness of the needs of your film idea. Develop this into a riveting outline, populate it with engaging characters, and draw your audience into your story world though genre.
- Mon 18 Sep 2023 – 27 Nov 2023
- 11 meetings
- 3:30 – 4:30pm
Literature, creative writing and film studies
Short, part-time and online courses in literature, creative writing and film studies at the University of Oxford.Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing
For aspiring writers, the Diploma offers involvement in a wide range of literary projects over two years of focused part-time study. Two study options are available including an online option with a summer school in Oxford.