60 Part-time PhD programmes in Creative Writing

The Creative Writing PhD at is an unrivalled graduate research degree from Monash University that brings big picture thinkers together with world-leading academics, field experts and sector partners to uncover the change that needs to be made in our world.

Research in English and American Literatures, in which Creative Writing is situated, has a long and distinguished history at Keele University. 

Unlock your potential with a English and Creative Writing programme at the University of Chichester.

Theatre and Drama in the Department of Literature,Theatre Studies (Playwriting) 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.

This Poetry - Text, Practice as Research  programme from University of Kent enables promising poets to develop the potential of poetry as a tool of inquiry within the humanities. 

The Creative Writing programme offered by Durham University supports doctoral and master's research in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir, and hybrid literary forms.

The English and Creative Writing degree at University of Roehampton aims to provide its research students with the opportunity to study in a stimulating, responsive, supportive environment, which fosters independent, critical thinking.

The Creative Writing programme at University of Strathclyde may suit those who wish to pursue a particular sustained project. 

One of the core values held by the University of New York in Prague is excellence in research. Offered at their partner, New York College Athens, in coordination with the University of Bolton, students will be able to earn their Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing.

The Creative Writing programme offered by Anglia Ruskin University develops expertise in literary innovation, narrative craft, artistic inquiry, poetic experimentation, and practice-based scholarship.

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.

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 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.

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.