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403 Master's degrees in Creative Writing in North America
Creative Writing
The University of Miami’s Creative Writing Program located in the English Department offers an intensive two year study with a third year option in the reading, writing and teaching of creative writing.
Creative Writing and Poetics
The Creative Writing and Poetics of the University of Washington Bothell is dedicated to helping each student develop their creative work through a course of study that encourages exploration and discovery.
Creative Writing
This Creative Writing MFA course from the Fairleigh Dickinson University is the one for you if you want to become the very best writer you can be or if you want your writing to find its audience.Over the past five years, our students and alumni have published 28 book-length works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young adult literature, and translation.
English and Literature - Creative Writing
Our Master in Fine Arts faculty is comprised of a dedicated group of poets and fiction writers who have won awards ranging from Guggenheim to MacArthur Fellowships, and who have—collectively—written, translated, and edited more than fifty books. English and Literature - Creative Writing is offered at University of Michigan.
Creative Writing
Creative Writing at University of North Texas is designed for students who wish to build a professional career as creative writers, educators or academics.
Creative Writing
The Creative Writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University is designed to provide talented writers with the opportunity to work closely with both outstanding faculty and gifted peers to strengthen their craft, develop their literary aesthetics and to participate actively in the life of the literary community at large.
Creative Writing
Creative Writing from Western Washington University offers a 2-year MFA program in Creative Writing within a community that values creative development and intellectual versatility.
English - Composition and Rhetoric
Are you interested in writing and the teaching of writing? Digital composing and remix? Then take a good long look at the English - Composition and Rhetoric graduate program at Miami University.
Nonfiction
For more than 25 years, our groundbreaking Nonfiction program at Goucher College has launched and elevated the careers of writers with a rigorous yet flexible two-year course of study that combines expert mentorship, deep reading and study of craft, instruction in the world of publishing, and an inclusive writer’s community.
Creative Writing
The program in Creative Writing at Minnesota State University Mankato serves exceptionally talented graduate students from around the country—and even the world—developing their work in the genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
Creative Writing and Publishing Arts
Graduate Creative Writing and Publishing Arts program at the University of Baltimore with the professional-level skills to write, edit, publish and promote your best work.
Creative Writing
Situated in historic Lexington and surrounded by the awesomeness of thoroughbred horse farms and bourbon distilleries, the Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky enjoys a rich literary heritage dating back to 1947, when Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist A.B. Guthrie first offered courses in fiction.
Writing
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.
English and Creative Writing - Poetry Online
Develop the skills you need to convey your poetic vision with a MA in English and Creative Writing - Poetry Online. The poetry concentration within Southern New Hampshire University's graduate program can take you to a new level of analysis, appreciation and understanding of this art form.
Film - Production and Screenwriting
At the Film - Production and Screenwriting MFA program at York University, you'll embark on a two-year program, taking courses with our faculty of award-winning filmmakers and completing a thesis film or digital work. You'll have access to extensive production facilities and computing equipment.

Creative Writing
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Colorado State University is for students with advanced abilities in the writing of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Creative Writing
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.
Creative Writing
Chatham University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFACW) program grows from the legacy of Rachel Carson '29, a creative writer known for her social conscience.
Cultural Reporting and Criticism
The Cultural Reporting and Criticism program offered at New York University is for writers who are driven to interrogate the world around them. Here, you will produce work that examines aspects of our culture with the support of deep research, an understanding of history and lines of influence, a critical and questioning eye, and a belief in the power of good writing.
Creative Writing
If you want to develop writing skills and relationships that will last a lifetime and are eager to gain publishing experience by working as an editor for a literary magazine or a publishing assistant for a poetry press, then the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Ashland University is the right program for you.