94 Online Master's degrees in Creative Writing

Develop an array of transferable skills on the Creative Writing course from Arts University Bournemouth. Throughout your studies, we’ll encourage you to reflect on your own practice, explore the fundamental duty of the writer, and guide you in honing your creative identity.

Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing from California Institute of Integral Studies is designed to help launch or expand your professional career as an artist and maker. Using the coursework as a guide, students have the opportunity to develop strategic tools and materials necessary to meet their professional goals.

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.

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 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.

Houston Christian University’s Master of Arts in Creative Writing will help you develop your individual voice and produce publishable works of poetry or fiction. 

The Creative Writing degree offered at Arcadia University is a terminal, two-year postgraduate degree that focuses on the art and practice of writing. 

Hone your creative writing skills and gain practical tools in critical analysis, editing and research by producing a published piece of work with this  Master of Arts in Writing and Literature at Deakin University.   

EdX is an online learning platform trusted by over 12 million users offering the Writing for Performance and the Entertainment Industries MicroMaster in collaboration with University of Cambridge - CambridgeX.

Technical Writing from Old Dominion University has a breadth of course offerings that provide students with the foundation for solving communication issues in the workplace. 

In the MA in English and Creative Writing - Nonfiction Online degree at Southern New Hampshire University, you'll learn how and why writers craft nonfiction narratives. These tools can help you develop factual material based on research and experiences of your own - or someone else's.

The Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University is a terminal degree program founded on the belief that writers who can work in multiple genres are best equipped for professional careers and that writing across genres has both practical and systemic benefits for the writer.

What makes a great storyteller – someone with meaningful ideas and the passion to express them? It’s time to approach screenwriting with consciousness. David Lynch Screenwriting (Online) is offered at Maharishi International University.

Immerse in craft in our mentorship-based program with online residencies and classes with the Creative Writing (Online) MFA at Maharishi International University.

Ignite your imagination and jump-start your professional writing career with a Master of Arts (MA) in English and Creative Writing Online at Southern New Hampshire University. Learn to use the written word to effectively tell your story and share your ideas with the world.

We offer a master degree in Creative Writing at the Adelphi University. Our unique (actually unique!) curriculum will prepare you for today’s dynamic literary world by requiring in-depth practice across genres.  

Broaden your skills and portfolio to pursue a career as a versatile writer who can move across genres, platforms and audiences with ease with a postgraduate Graduate Diploma of Professional Writing course from Deakin University.   

You bring the passion for storytelling, we’ll help you develop your craft, tap into your creativity, and increase your network. At Johns Hopkins University our goal is that you will leave our Writing  program ready to write, publish, and edit at the highest levels possible.

Join a vibrant community of award-winning writers at the Manchester Writing School, home to over 100 published students and graduates. The Creative Writing programme from Manchester Metropolitan University invites you to develop your voice, on campus in a UNESCO City of Literature, or as part of our global online community from anywhere in the world.

The only one of its kind in the U.S., the Creative Writing MFA at University of Texas El Paso offers a fully bilingual (Spanish and English) course of study in fiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, literary translation and non-fiction.