268 Part-time Master's degrees in Creative Writing

This Masters in Creative Writing offered at the University of Leicester is geared towards studying and experimenting across genres and forms, and will challenge you both intellectually and imaginatively.

This Creative Writing (Distance Learning) from Teesside University is your opportunity to develop your writing practice at the times that work for you, wherever you are in the world.

Write a full-length crime novel over two years under the close guidance of award-winning novelists and world-leading crime fiction experts. The Creative Writing Crime Fiction (Part Time), part of University of East Anglia is the UK’s first and most successful part-time, low-residency MA in crime writing.  

The Creative Writing programme from Loughborough University helps you develop your voice in fiction, poetry, and creative non‑fiction over a range of genres while gaining real insight into how the writing world works.

The Creative Writing course at University of Bristol consists of an original body of work - normally a novel, or a collection of poetry/short stories - with an accompanying critical element. The critical element will place the creative work in an informed and theorised analytical context.

This Screenwriting - Feature Film and Continuing Series programme at Leeds Beckett University is taught by practising screenwriters. It’s hands-on, industry focused and is based in the Northern Film School.

The Creative Writing and Publishing course at Kingston University examines not only the craft of writing, but also how the publishing industry works.

The Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow is unique and intense programmes for practising writers who wish to complete an ambitious creative project.

The Creative Writing course at Bangor University could be the first step towards a writing career, or the chance for a more experienced writer to develop a new perspective.

The Creative Writing programme from the University of Bristol is designed for writers who would like to begin publishing their work. Supportive workshops will help you improve your writing, and lectures and seminars will increase your understanding of the industrial and critical contexts of contemporary literature.

The Creative Writing programme of the University of Glasgow has gained an excellent reputation amongst writers, agents and publishers. It is perfect for talented and aspiring writers who want to develop their craft, take risks in their work, and gain creative and critical skills; all as part of a supportive community of fellow writers.

The Writing (Part-time) course offered by Liverpool John Moores University will provide you with the opportunity to read, write, reflect and develop your identity as a writer.

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. 

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

This Screenwriting (Part-time) course from Liverpool John Moores University invites you to explore your creative potential, by giving you the creative space to develop as a writer.

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.

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.

This Modern and Contemporary Writing (Part time) course from the University of East Anglia combines criticism and creativity. It’s a unique opportunity to study contemporary literature where it is being made and where modernism is alive in the present.