598 Full-time Master's degrees in Creative Writing

This Creative Writing programme offered by Teesside University approaches creative writing from a variety of perspectives - including fiction, poetry, life writing and drama - to explore how writers operate and how you can become an independent writer in professional publishing, performance and writing within community, educational and therapeutic contexts.

On the Creative Writing degree from University of Essex, you deepen your knowledge of literary tradition, exploring different modes and genres in order to develop your own creative and expressive written skills. 

This one-year (2-semester) programme offers successful students guaranteed progression to a postgraduate degree at a top UK university. Learn more at the Creative Practice - Pre-Master's Programme at OnCampus London from Goldsmiths, University of London.

The Comics and Graphic Novels programme, offered by Teesside University, is designed with insights from experts behind The Walking Dead and Captain America.

The Screenwriting course at University of Hertfordshire includes BAFTA albert accreditation – an industry recognised certification which encourages the TV and film production industry to reduce waste and its carbon footprint.

The Creative Writing programme at Macquarie University you’ll undertake intensive practical workshops across a range of genres, including young adult fiction, creative non-fiction, short story, novella, novel and poetry. And you’ll create, workshop and develop your writing with peers and our expert teachers. 

At this Modern and Contemporary Writing course from the University of East Anglia you’ll study in a place that has helped shape contemporary literature. Based in Norwich, England’s first UNESCO City of Literature(opens in a new window), you’ll explore modern literature from its 19th-century origins to the present day. 

This one-year (2-semester) programme offers successful students guaranteed progression to a postgraduate degree at a top UK university. Learn more at the Creative Writing and Education - Pre-Master's Programme at OnCampus London from Goldsmiths, University of London.

This one-year (2-semester) programme offers successful students guaranteed progression to a postgraduate degree at a top UK university. Learn more at the Black British Writing - Pre-Master's Programme at OnCampus London from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Are you interested in the ways that creative writing can be used as a tool for wellbeing? Perhaps you already work with creative writing in this context or maybe you’d like to find out more about this growing field of practice and research? Teesside University offers a masterin Creative Writing and Wellbeing (Online).

The Theatre Studies (Playwriting) degree offered at University of Essex is led by a vibrant group of playwrights and theatre practitioners who all work professionally in the theatre industry alongside their University teaching.

This one-year Creative Writing and the Writing Industries - Pre-Master's Programme from OnCampus Loughborough offers successful students guaranteed progression to Loughborough University.

Within this English (Poetry) MA degree from the Queen's University Belfast drawing on our long-standing reputation for producing distinguished critics and poets, this programme's creative-critical intersections make it suitable for a new generation of poets and critics alike.

The Songwriting programme from University of Limerick is for people who want to study the artistic practice of songwriting in depth.  

Improve your writing skills for corporate communications and editing roles in government, business and the not-for-profit sector with the Professional Writing and Publishing Stream (GCertArts) programme from Curtin University. 

The Drama and Theatre Studies degree delivered at University of Galway  is a dynamic and practice-rich programme based at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance. It blends critical study with hands-on theatre-making, allowing students to shape their learning across areas such as Irish drama, playwriting, directing, applied theatre, and performance theory.

This English Literature: Modern and Contemporary Fictions degree offered at the University of Westminster gives you the opportunity to study English literature in a modern university environment, while taking advantage of London's rich cultural life. The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

This Creative Writing - Writing the City degree offered at the University of Westminster is the first to focus entirely on the city of London. It will allow you to explore the city as subject matter from a range of perspectives and across all genres. The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

Whether the story you want to tell is a thriller, mystery, science fiction, or fantasy, Dalhousie University's Master of Fine Arts in Fiction will help you bring your imagined world to life on the page. You’ll deepen your understanding of the art of fiction writing with lectures, seminars, workshops, and readings while working on personal projects alongside mentors.

Prepare for a career in writing for theatre, radio, film, or television with a Creative Writing Scriptwriting course from the University of East Anglia that allows you to create dramatic writing across all media.