598 Full-time Master's degrees in Creative Writing

Develop your creativity and publishing industry knowledge with a focus on editorial, imaginative and professional writing, and marketing across print and digital with the Creative Writing and Publishing programme at Anglia Ruskin University. 

Creative Writing from Western Colorado University lets you pursue your dream of becoming a published author.

The Creative Writing - Poetry programme at The City University of New York is a selective, two-year Master of Fine Arts. This public, full-time course focuses on intensive workshops and private tutorials. Students develop their craft alongside eminent faculty, preparing for professional publication and literary careers.

At Emerson College, they understand that writing is your life. The Creative Writing MFA program at Emerson College focuses on the actual practice of writing, as well as its literary foundations.

Emerson College's Publishing and Writing MA will help you discover your place in the ever-vital, ever-changing field of publishing. You will learn to shape the prose of fresh voices as an editor, represent writers as a literary agent, or work with exciting online publications and new media formats. 

In the flexible master’s in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University, you have the unique opportunity to study across genres and develop and revise your work under the mentorship of acclaimed authors and poets. 

Writing for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television offers a vocational training in writing drama across a range of different media contexts. The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama courses provide the opportunity for you to develop the core competencies and skills of the dramatist, to explore your ‘voice’, to develop your confidence in your own writing.

The Creative Writing at Cardiff Metropolitan University is a rewarding taught degree taught by published writers and researchers. The course aims to support you while you develop and hone your creative and critical writing skills across the fields of fiction, creative non-fiction, script and poetry. 

Through past and present approaches to performance design, the Scenography courses at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama aim to explore dynamic and innovative interplays between the body, space and time, further informed by a variety of disciplines including film, sculpture, sound, digital media, puppetry, choreography and architecture. 

The Creative Writing programme from Syracuse University gives promising fiction writers and poets an opportunity to practice and study their art with dedicated fellow writers. 

The Book Publishing program from Portland State University provides its students with a comprehensive view of the publishing industry through general, specialized, and experiential learning that immerses students in the work that it takes to publish a book from acquisition to launch.

The Creative Writing programme at Brigham Young University offers a comprehensive curriculum for aspiring authors. This full-time course provides students with the opportunity to refine their literary craft in a supportive environment. Pursue your creative goals at Brigham Young University through this dedicated public track.

The Creative Writing MFA program offered by The New School is designed to help you develop your craft in workshops and literature seminars led by an internationally recognized faculty and renowned authors.

The Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA at the University of California, Riverside is a flexible two-year programme designed for aspiring writers. This part-time course combines asynchronous online learning with five intensive ten-day residencies in California, allowing students to balance creative growth with professional lives.

The department of English at Iowa State University offers a unique degree: a master’s in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication. 

The Theatre programme at the University of South Carolina is a comprehensive M.A.T. degree designed for aspiring educators. This public study mode course focuses on PK-12 certification, blending artistic practice with pedagogical theory. Students develop professional teaching skills through extensive school-based internships.

Realise your passion for words and self-expression through a flexible creative writing programme that will develop your skills in your chosen form: fiction, genre fiction or non-fiction. This Creative Writing degree from City St George's, University of London combines a passion for the power of the imagination with intensive study of craft and critical approaches to writing.

The MFA in Creative Writing (Distance) at the University of British Columbia is a flexible, online studio programme. This Master of Fine Arts degree offers part-time study over approximately four years, focusing on literary excellence through peer critique and multi-genre workshops for writers worldwide.

The Graduate Certificate in Academic Foundations from University of Canberra offers international students a pathway to further learning in coursework master's degrees initially in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law and the Faculty of Science and Technology (other Faculties may decide to use this pathway later).  

Refine your passion for writing poetry, ground that passion in the evolving creative tradition, and build connections within the writing community in the Professional Creative Writing - Professional Poetry Writing program of the University of Denver.