598 Full-time Master's degrees in Creative Writing

The Creative Writing at Northumbria University offers you the opportunity to explore your writing craft at an advanced level. You’ll gain a solid grounding in the techniques and skills of writing fiction, learn how to critique your own work and experiment with your writing voice.

Graduates from the MA in Creative Writing (Non-Fiction) from the University of East Anglia such as Andrew Kenrick (winner of the 2023 Tony Lothian Prize), Ike Anya, Caroline Davison and Pyae Moe Thet War, have gone on to publish acclaimed and diverse works of non-fiction. 

For anyone with an interest in professional, academic, creative, and technical writing, this coursework-based Writing  programme from University of Canterbury allows you to specialise and deepen your expertise.

Everyone has a novel in them - or a screenplay - or a sonnet - but if you want to refine your writing and prepare it for publication, the Creative Writing programme from University of Birmingham offers you the chance to dedicate time to your craft and learn from acclaimed authors.

Refine your creative writing skills and build a professional portfolio through expert guidance, industry connections, and hands-on workshop experience. The Creative Writing programme is offered at University of Stirling.

Blend storytelling artistry with essential publishing skills. Gain hands-on experience with the Bournemouth Journal and Writing Prize. Join a diverse international cohort, expand your global perspective and prepare for a dynamic publishing career with the Creative Writing and Publishing programme at Bournemouth University. 

The Creative Writing MA course offered at De Montfort University is for those who want to expand their writing practice through innovative taught themed modules, and have the opportunity to write a long-project in a chosen genre.

Expand your knowledge and understanding of music with the Music (Musicology) MMus course offered by the University of Southampton. You’ll graduate with the knowledge and skills for a career in music or further research on a PhD.

The Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Liverpool develops your abilities through a combination of creative engagement with prose and drama on writing and placement modules, and a critical study of literature. 

Study creative writing across Europe at four leading institutions and develop your literary voice in an international context with this Creative Writing course from SRH University.

This one-year Creative Writing - Pre-Master's Programme from OnCampus Ireland at University of Limerick offers successful students guaranteed progression* to a range of partner universities.

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 Major (MArts) programme from Curtin University. 

The Creative Writing programme from University of Kent will help you develop your creative writing practice, experiment with a variety of forms, and discover your voice. Find out how to make your way in the world as a writer, exploring your creative potential in a supportive and well-resourced environment.

This Creative Writing for Marketing, MSc course from Brunel University of London is the only postgraduate course in the UK to offer a fusion of these two exciting disciplines. It includes a range of specialist modules, specialist dissertation project, as well as the opportunity for tailored workplace experience.

Study and produce creative texts in every genre, explore the latest innovative writing, and learn about cultural contexts, research methods and creative industries within the heart of London with the Creative Writing course at University of Greenwich.

Develop the skills to forge a career in writing. On this engaging Professional Writing programme from Falmouth University, you’ll learn to craft a variety of writing forms, including fiction, poetry and non-fiction, as well as magazine features and marketing copy, for a range of competitive and fast-moving industries. 

This Creative Writing and Publishing program from the Long Island University (LIU) prepares students to both be professional writers in the world and to be visionary literary citizens. 

The Storytelling course at East Tennessee State University is a post baccalaureate sequence containing core master’s level coursework in storytelling performance skills and practice. 

Students in this English - Writing, Rhetoric, and Social Change Specialization degree delivered by Colorado State University is home to poets and linguists, literacy researchers and teacher educators, novelists and literary scholars, composition specialists and writers of creative nonfiction.

The English - English Education degree delivered by Colorado State University is home to poets and linguists, literacy researchers and teacher educators, novelists and literary scholars, composition specialists and writers of creative nonfiction.