78 Full-time PhD programmes in Creative Writing

The Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies offers supervision for PhD Creative Writing at University of Essex in all fields of staff research interest within this area.

As a PhD researcher in English Studies at the University of Stirling, you’ll become a key part of our research environment. We also offer the opportunity to pursue a practice-led PhD in Creative Writing, with specialist supervision from the writers on our staff.

A PhD in English with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Writing at The University of New Mexico offers both academic and hands-on experience, with many opportunities to contribute to one of the most dynamic writing programs in the United States.

Doctoral students in English Composition at the University of Pittsburgh engage in innovative research and teaching while supported by faculty with an interdisciplinary emphasis to writing, pedagogy, and media.

The Ph.D. program in English - Creative Writing at Georgia State University offers graduate students the opportunity to work closely with our award-winning faculty while living and writing in Atlanta, an international city with a vibrant literary culture.

The PhD program in Rhetoric and Composition at University of Texas El Paso focuses largely on place-based cultural and digital rhetorics and community-based work.  

The Creative Writing programme offered by Bath Spa University develops expertise in storytelling, literary craft, and imaginative practice.

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is the highest academic award for which a student can be registered. This Creative Writing (Distance Learning) programme at the University of Huddersfield allows you to explore and pursue a research project built around a substantial piece of work, which has to show evidence of original contribution to knowledge.

This programme addresses one of our main aims at Kent, which is to enable research students to take risks and use cross-disciplinary techniques to explore research questions. This is the PhD that covers narrative non-fiction, as well as other forms of creative writing that are not poems or a novel.

The Creative Writing MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter covers all areas of Victorian Britain and the Empire: culture (high Victorian and fin de siecle literature, gender, and sexuality); science (biology and economics); technology (print, optical and sound media).

The Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature curriculum at University of Houston  is comprised of professional development courses, creative writing workshops, courses in a graduate curricular specialization, and electives courses. 

The School of English and Journalism offers advanced research opportunities within the subject of creative writing. This Creative Writing programme from University of Lincoln aims to provide training for a career in writing, from fiction to screen and radio adaptation.

Our Creative Writing PhD programme at University of Aberdeen offers a dedicated, supportive and multi-award winning team of full-time supervisory staff specialising in poetry, fiction and non-fiction prose.

Your work will make an original contribution in the field of creative non-fiction and contribute new knowledge within, and occasionally beyond, the humanities. Alongside this you will produce a situating document that contextualises the text's ideas, placing it within its own practice, precursors and traditions.

As one of the top creative writing doctoral programs in the country, we offer motivated poetry and fiction writers the chance to refine their creative work while building a portfolio of literary criticism and scholarly writing. We offer a English and Literary Arts - Creative Writing degree at the University of Denver.

Creative Writing at University of Hull is friendly, inclusive and supportive, and characterised by the internationally excellent research that informs our postgraduate degree supervision. 

This Creative Writing programme at University of Plymouth is one of the longest running in the UK, with a history reaching back to the late 1990s. 

Our Creative Writing Research degrees at University of Glasgow  are unique and intense programmes for practising writers who wish to complete an ambitious creative project, representing a distinctive contribution to the field of Creative Writing. The Creative Writing programme is offered at University of Glasgow.