676 Master's degrees in Creative Writing

Creating powerful, redemptive stories excites you. You want your stories to come alive on screen. The Screenwriting degree at Regent University will increase your writing skills and help you advance in your career as a commercial-level writer.

The Creative Industries at University of Canberra will develop a strong understanding of the creative sector and learn to engage with audiences and markets in digital environments while building networks that will help shape your career.

Writing for Performance at University of Cambridge is designed for postgraduate students who wish to develop high-level theoretical skills and a vibrant and innovative creative practice within writing for a wide range of performance mediums.  

Develop an array of transferable skills on the Creative Writing course from Arts University Bournemouth. Throughout your studies, we’ll encourage you to reflect on your own practice, explore the fundamental duty of the writer, and guide you in honing your creative identity.

The Creative Writing and Literature programme is offered at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. A student may petition the Thesis Advisory Committee and the department chair to take up to 6 credit hours of independent study to be applied toward the English M.F.A. electives requirement.

This practice-led MA Screenwriting course at Ravensbourne University London blends craft, production insight, and cutting-edge tools to develop bold, market-ready scripts for film and high-end TV - culminating in a major project you’ll pitch to industry professionals.

This Creative Writing Master’s course from University of East Anglia will equip you to engage with this world and its vast audiences, now and in the future. You'll have the unique opportunity to work across forms of writing to help you discover and enhance your talent. 

Create narratives, hone your passion and prepare for a career in fiction, films, television, new media and video games with this Creative Writing program from Coventry University.

The Film - Creative Producing program at Columbia University is a three-year program that takes advantage of Columbia’s unique geography at the center of the independent film world, with the mission of creating the next generation of producers.

The Virtual Production MPS at New York University is a rigorous nine-month, full-time master’s programme. Based at the Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center in Brooklyn, this 36-credit public study mode course provides immersive, hands-on training in storytelling, creative technology, and on-set production techniques.

The Scriptwriting program at Bath Spa University will help you to become a more adept scriptwriter, able to work across theatre, radio, film, and television. Along with a comprehensive training in key writing skills, you’ll develop your critical thinking, creative dexterity, and coherent strategies for professional progress.

The Creative Writing MA at The University of Winchester is a one-year, full-time programme delivered on campus. This master degree focuses on fiction and narrative non-fiction, offering a supportive environment for writers to refine their craft under the guidance of professional authors and industry experts.

Train to become a reporter, correspondent or editor for global news organisations with our stimulating and modern Newspaper Journalism MA programme from City St George's, University of London. You will develop a range of practical skills and media knowledge needed to make an impact in a hugely competitive industry.

The Scenography MA course from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht is suitable for students who have just completed their Bachelor’s degree and are capable of conducting research independently and in a broad context, as well as for artists who have already been working as professionals at Bachelor’s level for several years.

You bring the passion for storytelling, we’ll help you develop your craft, tap into your creativity, and increase your network. At Johns Hopkins University our goal is that you will leave our Writing  program ready to write, publish, and edit at the highest levels possible.

This postgraduate course in Screenwriting (MA, PG Cert) at Birkbeck, University of London, allows students to refine their writing skills to a professional level. The programme can be pursued full-time or part-time, with classes held on campus in the evenings. The course duration is one year for full-time students and two years for part-time students, commencing in October 2026.

Join a vibrant community of award-winning writers at the Manchester Writing School, home to over 100 published students and graduates. The Creative Writing programme from Manchester Metropolitan University invites you to develop your voice, on campus in a UNESCO City of Literature, or as part of our global online community from anywhere in the world.

This Creative Writing course at Royal Holloway University of London allows you to develop your work as a writer to a professional level, going beyond the personal and writing with an engaged sense of literary culture, its social role and contemporary practices.

Get the training, connections and experiences you need to make your mark in television. The Television Fiction Writing degree from Glasgow Caledonian University is the only full-time masters degree focusing solely on writing TV drama for the UK.

Broaden your skills and portfolio to pursue a career as a versatile writer who can move across genres, platforms and audiences with ease with a postgraduate Graduate Diploma of Professional Writing course from Deakin University.