Our graduates have gone on to work in a wide variety of professions, as authors and journalists, and in theatre, television and film.
You might find them working in the arts, media, publishing and politics, charities and non-governmental organisations, teaching or the commercial sector.
Our drama courses have produced a great number of professional alumni in theatre, film and television, including Matt Smith, Olivia Vinall and BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Greg James.
Our graduates’ publishing success remains unrivalled. In 2017 one of our alumni, Kazuo Ishiguro, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and two other graduates – Ian McEwan and Anne Enright – have won the Booker Prize for Fiction (for which our alumni have been shortlisted on fifteen other occasions). Our graduates have won or been shortlisted for every major United Kingdom literary award.
You can hear more from some of our alumni below, including from Emma Healey, a graduate of our Master of Arts in Creative Writing Prose Fiction and author of two very successful novels, who tells us in the video about her writing and how we inspired her…