598 Full-time Master's degrees in Creative Writing

Becoming a great writer is at once an intensely personal and a deeply collaborative process. This Creative Writing program at State University of New York at New Paltz is designed to help writers find their voices and find their audiences.

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 Writing programme of the University of Aberdeen is a taught programme designed to offer you a constructive, highly supportive learning environment in which to develop your writing and creative potential. You will be introduced to the processes and challenges involved in producing creative work of publishable quality, whether in poetry or prose, fiction or creative non-fiction.

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.

This is an innovative and exciting programme in which you focus on writing a full-length, literary novel of between 90,000 and 150,000 words.

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.

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. 

Situated in historic Lexington and surrounded by the awesomeness of thoroughbred horse farms and bourbon distilleries, the Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky enjoys a rich literary heritage dating back to 1947, when Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist A.B. Guthrie first offered courses in fiction. 

Creative Writing and Literature from Stony Brook University emphasizes creative work in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.  

The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing offered by University of North Carolina Greensboro is a two-year residency program with an emphasis on providing studio time for the writing of poetry or fiction. The students develop their particular talents through small classes in writing, literature, publishing, and the arts. 

The MFA in Creative Writing at Boston University is a small, intensive one-year program (two to three semesters). The goal of the program is to help each of our students become better writers of original prose and poetry and to produce readers, critics, poets, and writers of the highest quality.

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 graduate programs in Creative Writing and Publishing at the University of Saint Thomas Saint Paul will provide you with the opportunity to study literature, writing, creative writing, publishing, and new media in a focused, enriching way. 

This Writing Studies program at Eastern Michigan University prepares students for careers in professional writing, editing, publishing, or teaching writing at the elementary, secondary, or community college levels. It also provides thorough preparation for Ph.D. studies in rhetoric and composition.

The English and Creative Writing Dual Degree program of The University of North Carolina at Charlotte offers graduate students opportunities to work with faculty whose scholarship has won recognition at the national and international level. That scholarship encompasses the three principal areas of English Studies: language, literature, and writing.

The Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing  program delivered at Emerson College is one of the first online and asynchronous programs of its kind that prepares students to write professional-level stories and novels.

Have you got a story to tell? Or poems that you want to shape into a collection? This Creative and Life Writing Masters degree from Goldsmiths, University of London will help you develop your creative writing practice. 

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.  

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.

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.