Fuel your creativity, craft, and passion for storytelling with Johns Hopkins University's 100% online MA in Writing program. You'll study with prolific writers with publishing credits that include high-profile magazines, literary journals, and newspapers. Plus, join a thriving writing community to network with emerging and established writers with diverse backgrounds. You can customize the 10 courses for your specialty, be it fiction or nonfiction. Get started now to finish in 18 to 36 months.

SCAD writing students master storytelling across film, TV, journalism, podcasting, and social media. With hands-on experience in immersive reality, sitcoms, and ads, they craft compelling narratives for diverse industries, gaining skills to thrive in today’s dynamic media landscape.

The online Master of Arts in professional and creative writing helps writers be successful, whether they are looking to write a novel or polish their professional writing skills. Our program cultivates the writing, reading, and critical thinking skills necessary for business professionals and creative writers. Our students are often both. Our classes center on a community of writers who share common goals and practices, and they are led by faculty mentors, who publish widely and who care deeply about the success of each student. There’s a strong emphasis on personal development and skill enhancement. The degree honors the entirety of the writer who aspires to write for internal and external audiences within and beyond the workplace.

The Columbia University MFA Writing Program is highly regarded for its rigorous approach to literary instruction and for its faculty of acclaimed writers and editors who are devoted and dedicated teachers. The faculty, the students, and the curriculum represent and foster a full range of artistic and literary diversity. Students are encouraged to make the most of their own artistic instincts and to realize as fully as possible, beyond any perceived limitations, their potential as writers.

The Columbia University MFA Writing Program is highly regarded for its rigorous approach to literary instruction and for its faculty of acclaimed writers and editors who are devoted and dedicated teachers. The faculty, the students, and the curriculum represent and foster a full range of artistic and literary diversity. Students are encouraged to make the most of their own artistic instincts and to realize as fully as possible, beyond any perceived limitations, their potential as writers.