598 Full-time Master's degrees in Creative Writing

Taught by industry professionals, the Screenwriting program at University of Melbourne trains you in the craft of professional screenwriting aligned with your personal vision, leading to compelling and exciting stories that are ready for a feature film or television markets.

Creative Writing students at Hollins University, like the professors, are unusually committed to a diversity of voices and literatures, contemporary and across the ages. They work successfully in and across every genre, including poetry, short fiction, novels, and creative nonfiction.

Craft your literary voice. Create stories of your time. The MA Creative Writing programme at LASALLE College of the Arts develops the writers, editors, publishers, cultural curators and writing teachers of tomorrow who create narratives that migrate from Singapore to the world's exponentially growing literary production and publishing market.

The Creative Writing MPhil at Aberystwyth University is a research-focused postgraduate programme. This full-time course lasts for one year and is delivered in a public study mode. It offers students a professional environment to develop substantial creative projects while establishing a rigorous critical framework for their work.

The strengths of the English - Rhetoric and Writing Studies program at University of Oklahoma are flexibility, immersion, and student engagement in developing their own courses of study based on areas of interest. 

The Theatre - Playwriting program at Columbia University embraces diverse voices and aesthetics. There are many ways to write a great play, exemplified by our faculty, which includes Tony©, Pulitzer, and Obie Award winners such as Charles Mee, Lynn Nottage, and David Henry Hwang.

Teaching of Writing is offered by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The teaching of writing specialization at SIUE introduces students to some of the key theoretical, institutional and pragmatic questions that currently circulate about the teaching of writing.  

An intensive one-year programme with the emphasis on developing the writer's original voice.

Goldsmiths, University of London offers an MPhil/PhD in Creative Writing, designed for a duration of 3-4 years for full-time students or 4-6 years for part-time attendees. This programme allows you to delve into your creative writing while engaging in scholarly research, providing a comprehensive understanding of literary practices.

The MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde is a full-time programme lasting 12 months. This degree equips students with essential writing skills through workshops and one-on-one guidance, fostering a vibrant writing community. Participants will work closely with experienced authors to refine their craft and develop a significant creative project.

In the Creative Writing and Publishing course offered by Nanyang Technological University learn about digital design and hone your publishing skills especially in emerging digital technologies including podcasts, audio books, games, web design and publishing for tablets, e-readers, and mobile devices.

The Writing - Fiction program at Columbia University is highly regarded for its rigorous approach to literary instruction and for its faculty of acclaimed writers and editors who are devoted and dedicated teachers.

The Writing - Literary Translation program at Columbia University offers all Writing students the opportunity to pursue coursework in literary translation as part of their studies.

Study a variety of writing genres in a Writing program with a strong balance between rhetorical theory and practice at Missouri State University.

The mission of the Film -  Screenwriting and Directing program at Columbia University is to rigorously train storytellers in film, television, and digital media. This concentration is specifically for students who intend to immerse themselves in the art of both writing and directing, many of whom will go on to become writer-directors.

This Creative Writing (Distance Learning) programme at the University of Huddersfield allows you to undertake a one-year (full-time) research degree, with little or no formal taught component. 

The Writing Seminars program from Johns Hopkins University is designed for students committed to the study and practice of literary writing at the highest level of accomplishment.

The Writing - Nonfiction program at Columbia University offers instruction in a full range of subgenres, from memoir and personal essay to science writing, criticism, humour, research methods, profiles, food writing and lyric essay. 

The University of Miami’s Creative Writing Program located in the English Department offers an intensive two year study with a third year option in the reading, writing and teaching of creative writing.

The Creative Writing program of the Vanderbilt University has been a vital part of the Department of English for nearly a century.