598 Full-time Master's degrees in Creative Writing

The Writing for Screen and Stage course offered at Birkbeck, University of London supports your development as a writer across a range of forms, genres and industry contexts, including for film, TV, narrative gaming, theatre and performance. 

Writing for Young Readers from University of San Francisco, study any form and genre, from picture books to young adult novels, nonfiction, graphic novels, and poetry. Work one-on-one with award-winning authors.

Develop your expertise as a sophisticated reader and critic across a range of literary materials, while pursuing your passion for writing  in this Creative Writing and English Literature program at York St John University.

This Creative Writing 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 MA in Script Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, is a one-year full-time programme designed for aspiring writers. This degree equips you with essential skills in storytelling for film, television, and radio, fostering creativity and professional growth. Engage in an immersive learning experience with a focus on developing your unique voice and industry connections.

The Film Production and Creative Writing MFA at the University of British Columbia is a prestigious, full-time master’s programme delivered in person. This public degree focuses on directing and screenwriting for those with a film background. It offers intensive training over a standard two-year duration in Vancouver.

The Writing programme at the University of Victoria is a 20-month MFA degree designed for dedicated creators. This full-time, on-campus course offers intensive mentorship and a public study mode. Students develop a major creative project through personalized supervision and workshops in one of the world's most livable cities.

The Creative Writing (NEOMFA) at The University of Akron is a terminal Master of Fine Arts degree designed for aspiring authors. This full-time programme focuses on advanced craft across multiple genres, including fiction and poetry. Students benefit from a unique four-university consortium providing extensive resources.

The English degree offered at The University of Arizona offers instruction in English and American literature, giving you analytical tools, diverse perspectives and historical depth for exploring the present through the lens of the past.

The Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar Ilan University is a magnet for English-speakers in Israeli, as well as Jews and non-Jews from around the world.

The Professional Writing degree at the University of Cincinnati offers coursework in many forms of specialized writing, including technical, business, and health.

Develop and refine your voice as a writer—and gain the skills you need to sustain a life in the arts—with the Master of Fine Arts in Theater - Playwriting at Temple University's School of Theater, Film and Media Arts.

The Applied Theatre Arts MA program offered at the University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts invites community-based artists, educators, therapists, social workers and political activists to explore how theatre can be applied to non-traditional theatrical settings through a rigorous one year and one summer course of study.

The Literature and Creative Writing program at Western Sydney University offers you the opportunity to think across creative, critical and disciplinary categories, and to produce either works of scholarship or creative writing (or related creative work that crosses into other areas including music, art, performance and film).

The MFA at The University of Hong Kong is the first MFA programme in Creative Writing in English in Hong Kong and Asia. It is vibrantly located in the HKU Black Box at a top 25 Ranked University in the World Overall (2019 QS World University Rankings) and 1st Globally for Most International University (Times Higher Education Rankings 2019). 

Get the support of a talented community of peers? Focus on fiction, narrative nonfiction or poetry in the graduate M.F.A. Writing program from University of New Hampshire, which has launched the careers of hundreds of poets, novelists, storywriters, essayists and memoirists.

The Department of English at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign offers a program of study in Creative Writing leading to the Master of Fine Arts degree.

The MFA in Creative Writing from University of Maryland provides a professional course of study for graduate students seeking to perfect their ability to compose poems, stories, and novels. While primarily affording students intensive studio or practical work within their chosen genre, the MFA in Creative Writing requires that students incorporate such work with a traditional study of literature. 

The MFA Program in Writing at the University of California, San Diego welcomes brave and innovative writers and encourages the formation of mutually-supportive, inspiring literary communities. The program is small, with typically 4 to 8 new students admitted and funded each year. 

The Broadcast and Digital Journalism programme at Syracuse University is focused on giving you the skills necessary to be a broadcast and digital journalist.