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Mastering the fine art of writing

MFA programs in creative writing are nurturing Canada’s next generation of authors.

Jason Murray loves writing. And school. After graduating with a degree in journalism, he worked for several years as a reporter before moving on to teachers college. From there, Mr. Murray balanced his occasional teaching with correspondence courses from Humber College’s School for Writers in Toronto and managed to produce a novel and 100 pages of poetry. Emboldened by his progress, Mr. Murray decided in 2014 to once again return to school – this time enrolling in the master of fine arts in creative non-fiction program at Halifax’s University of King’s College.

The two-year “limited residency” degree allows Mr. Murray to work from his home in Moncton with periodic class meetings in Halifax, Toronto and New York. Through the program, Mr. Murray’s book proposal was sent to Whitney Moran, an editor at Nimbus Publishing in Halifax. He soon found himself signing a publishing deal – before he even graduated from the program. “The whole grand idea of getting an MFA is to get your writing to the place where you want it to be, and figuring out how to get a book published,” Mr. Murray says.

It worked – really worked – for Mr. Murray. While precious few writing MFA students nab a publishing deal mid-degree, most come out of these programs with almost publishable work, and contacts in the writing community and publishing industry – what most wannabe writers would see as a fast track to a writing career.  As one established non-fiction writer told the King’s students during a networking trip to New York, “It took me five years to find the people you’re being introduced to over seven days.” One could lock oneself in a Paris garret or hang out in the Brooklyn slam poetry scene to hone skills and make connections, but a degree is faster and, rents being as they are, possibly cheaper.

The ranks of Canada’s established and emerging authors are full of MFA-holding writers and graduates of that degree’s cousin: the creative writing-stream English MA. “These programs are all producing writers, and very successful ones who are winning major prizes and getting book deals with major publishers,” says Ross Leckie, director of creative writing at the University of New Brunswick, which offers a creative-writing option English MA (a blend of lit courses, writing workshops and a creative thesis option).

The MFA has been called the fastest growing graduate program in the United States. It’s a popular degree in Canada, too, though we offer notably fewer options than the U.S., the U.K. and Australia. “We’re really far behind per capita,” says writer Darryl Whetter, an associate professor of English and creative writing at Université Sainte–Anne, a francophone university in Pointe-de-l’Église, Nova Scotia.

Next fall, UNB will join the University of Calgary as the only institutions in Canada to offer creative writing PhD programs in English (Université Laval has a creative-writing option PhD in French literature). Meanwhile, the U.S. currently offers dozens of PhD programs on top of approximately 300 master’s-level writing programs. In Australia, a country with a far smaller population than Canada, at least nine universities offer PhDs in writing. Program growth here is being tempered by universities’ reluctance to fund these relatively pricey programs and the persistence of the old bias that you can’t teach writing. By staying small and specialized, however, Canadian graduate writing programs are remaining competitive.

Creative writing has a relatively short pedagogical history. The illustrious University of Iowa first offered writing classes in 1897 and began accepting creative work for a grad thesis in 1922. Its Writers’ Workshop followed in 1936, and with it came Iowa’s first graduate degree in writing. That MA morphed into an MFA program that has educated 17 Pulitzer Prize-winning authors to date, including poet Rita Dove, novelist Michael Cunningham and journalist Tracy Kidder. The workshop accepts 50 students a year from thousands of applicants.

In Canada, the oldest writing classes date back to 1940 at UNB, says Dr. Leckie. The school added a writer-in-residence in 1965 and the creative-writing stream MA in 1968. It was 1948 when poet Earle Birney convinced the English department at the University of British Columbia to let him run a creative writing workshop. In 1965, he broke with the English department and founded the first creative writing department in the country, complete with an MFA.

Four decades later, in 2005, UBC added an optional residency program and doubled intake to an average of 65 students. A year later, Canada got its second player in the creative writing MFA game at the University of Guelph. That program accepts a dozen or so students annually and offers classes out of the University of Guelph-Humber campus in Toronto, where it still has no direct competitors. In 2008, the University of Victoria started an MFA with six students per cohort, positioning itself as a boutique degree in contrast to its large, established neighbour in Vancouver. The University of Saskatchewan filled the gap in the literature-rich Prairies with its MFA, which began in 2011 and accepts about seven writers a year. The newest program in Canada started in 2013 at the University of King’s College. Housed in the King’s journalism school, it’s the country’s first MFA program to concentrate exclusively on non-fiction and its second limited residency program. The program began with 20 students and in its second year doubled that to 40.

Rounding out Canada’s graduate programs in creative writing are MAs at the University of Regina, University of Toronto, University of Windsor, Concordia University, U of C and UNB (these last two also offer PhDs). Most of these programs are a decade old or less.

Looking south of our border, creative writing cohorts at some U.S. grad schools have ballooned to as many as 120 students, and taking the MFA to task has become something of a national pastime. The biggest target for criticism is a perceived sameness produced by the reign of Iowa’s workshop approach to teaching the craft, in which students and a prof sit in a room and pull apart a piece of student writing. The late writer David Foster Wallace famously argued, back in 1988, that these workshops are taught by instructors who would rather be writing. They end up rewarding well-behaved students who “play the game quietly and solidly, and begin producing solid, quiet work … stories as tough to find technical fault with as they are to remember after putting them down,” he wrote in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. A 2014 essay in The New Yorker by writer and professor Junot Díaz was among those that have claimed creative writing MFA programs are elitist, lack diversity and educate hordes of writers for which there is almost no market, graduating writers to simply take up teaching posts at other schools.

“Let’s not just swallow the workshop model whole,” says Catherine Bush, a novelist and program coordinator of the MFA at U of Guelph. Being late to the party means many Canadian programs have plucked some of the best qualities of the world’s MFAs and designed dynamic curricula that encourage diverse, risky writing, and that call on the resources and influences at hand.

At U of Guelph, the degree is housed in English and theatre studies, so workshop time is bolstered by classes on reading with a writer’s eye and on what it means to be a writer; theatre profs stop by to run sessions on movement and public speaking; students are encouraged to teach at a downtown Toronto public school and attend literary events. “We’re really trying to cover, both in practical and philosophical ways, how to lead a writing life,” says Ms. Bush.

Paul Vermeersch was planning his fourth book of poetry when he enrolled in U of Guelph’s program in 2009. The Toronto-based writer and editor credits the experience for helping him develop the complex concepts in his book, Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something , published in 2014. “In an academic environment such as an MFA, I felt free to try new things,” he says. “I’m more comfortable being uncomfortable.”

The University of Saskatchewan, meanwhile, calls its degree an MFA in writing – not creative writing – and runs it out of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture and Creativity. A big selling point: students get six months of focused time with a mentor, which they have a hand in choosing. “The students love that they get their own personal writing guru for six months,” says program coordinator Jeanette Lynes, a prof and a poet. “They come to this program not because they want to enter some elite ivory tower; they want to link to the writing community.”

“I learned to read my writing with a vastly more critical eye,” says dee Hobsbawn-Smith, who graduated with an MFA from U of S in 2014. She’d previously worked as a journalist, a chef and a cookbook writer, and already had a contract in hand for a book of poetry and a short-story collection when she enrolled. The degree still offered what she considered a “solid shortcut to help me with what has been my second apprenticeship.” She’s now writing a novel and has spent the last year as writer-in-residence at the Saskatoon Public Library. Her time in university workshops has come in handy for critiquing others’ work for that job, she says.

In Victoria, the country’s smallest MFA is located just hours from the largest one in Vancouver – and they are vastly different programs. “Our faculty members hand-pick someone they want to supervise,” says Bill Gaston, who heads the program at UVic. Since the institution has a sizable undergraduate writing program, there are enough faculty members to match one-to-one with grad students across five genres. All students get funded through a one-year fellowship, scholarships are available, and most get a paid TA gig in the second year teaching undergrad writing.

At UBC – where Mr. Gaston and many other creative writing instructors got their own MFAs – the program boasts about 20 full-time faculty and several part-time instructors, many of whom are big names in Canadian literature, including Annabel Lyon, Timothy Taylor and Susan Musgrave. The program’s clout attracts celebrity guest lecturers such as Miriam Toews, who recently served as writer-in-residence, and celebs often do guest lectures. “John Irving came through last week,” notes Ms. Lyon, the program’s acting co-chair. She says the choice of genres for workshops – 11 are on offer and all students have to take at least three different ones – enriches a writer’s genre of choice, and inspires some to change direction.

u.s. writer and creative writing professor Lynn Freed has called MFAs the “cash cow of the humanities.” That may be true in the U.S., where Iowa charges over US$25,000 annual tuition (and nearly US$40,000 for international students), but it’s in sharp contrast to Canada and the $3,800 per year it costs at U of S. Considering the ideal class size is eight (but can work with up to 12), these programs are expensive to staff, according to UVic’s Mr. Gaston. Degrees in engineering, tech and science, such as nursing and chemistry, are costly too, but these get better funding and more generous alumni donations.

The UBC MFA was nearly shut down in the early 2000s as it struggled to fund and justify itself. Two professors recently retired from the U of S program, and now its coordinator, Dr. Lynes, is doing most of the teaching because she can’t afford to hire replacements. “It’s just a condition of universities today that they’re rarely prepared to throw a bunch of money at one program,” she says.

While Canadian writing MFA programs are inundated with applicants that could fill more spots than available, expansion is a challenge. “We don’t have the resources to make the program bigger at this point,” says Mr. Gaston. “When it comes down to a vote for more courses or more money, creative writing doesn’t stand a chance.” Dr. Whetter at Université Saint-Anne says undervaluing these programs is a mistake. Many schools struggle to attract grad students, he says; graduate writing programs, including doctoral programs, offer a way to bring them in. This view, he admits, hasn’t been warmly received at some of the schools where he’s shared it. “I was looked at like I had two heads,” he recalls.

Much of this administrative apprehension has to do with outdated opinions. “Creative writing looks like a bird course,” says Mr. Gaston. “But schools find the most popular courses are the creative writing options.” Both grad students and undergrads want more writing courses, but the myth that you can’t (or shouldn’t) teach writing – that you either have the talent and the creativity or you don’t – persists. “That always baffles me,” says UNB’s Dr. Leckie. “We have this idea that writing can’t be taught, but no one in painting or music would ever think that.” What’s more, says Mr. Gaston, “one of the main struggles is convincing people that creative rigour is just as rigorous as academic rigour.”

Detracting from the push for greater respect in the academy is the fact that there’s no prevailing model for teaching creative writing in Canada. Dr. Whetter has called writing pedagogy “wildly scattershot.” The diversity of approaches only reinforces the concern that writing instruction has no gold standard. In response, program heads promote their award-winning students and graduates. It seems to impress administrators at some universities, though others just want to talk dollars and cents. So Don Sedgwick, executive director of the MFA at King’s, highlights the program’s low overhead. “We don’t use a lot of the resources of the university,” he says, because students in the limited residency program only visit the campus for two weeks in August, when classroom space is abundant. But their networking trips to New York and Toronto are pricey, he admits, as is running a one-to-five ratio for mentors – at least the professionals in these roles are paid as freelancers, which helps keep payroll costs trim.

At U of Guelph, undergraduates clamour for creative writing classes, and that’s good for graduate students, says Ms. Bush. “Expanding undergraduate creative writing can be a way to support a smaller graduate program.” At UBC, 10 percent of undergraduates take at least one creative writing class. The financial health of the master’s program now rests on courses such as Introduction to Creative Writing, a second-year, lecture-hall survey course with 300 students per section. UBC runs six sections a year of the course and two or more sections each of intro courses in eight writing genres (MFA students serves as TAs for these large courses). Upper-year undergrads can get more one-on-one mentoring in third-year lecture-seminar courses, often capped at 30 for the seminar portion, and final-year workshops max out at 14 or less.

While many writing grads go on to vibrant literary careers, almost all must bring home the bacon through other pursuits. MA grads may pursue academic PhDs and seek teaching posts, while MFAs are generally able to take up instructor posts with any number of creative writing programs. (MFAs are often terminal degrees, though some grads are able to pursue PhDs.) Still others tap away at screenplays and poems in their spare time, stay active in the literary community and make money at other careers.

Perhaps that’s just fine, and the ultimate goal of these creative degrees can be graduating a few literary hotshots, more part-time writers and many expressive people who use their advanced degrees in various roles. “Within the humanities, we all need to step up and say why reading and writing matter,” says Ms. Bush. “Being able to tell stories and to have empathy and understand writing with all its ethical complexities, these things are valuable.”  

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Re: “That may be true in the U.S., where Iowa charges over US$25,000 annual tuition (and nearly US$40,000 for international students), but it’s in sharp contrast to Canada and the $3,800 per year it costs at U of S.”

Iowa (and many US MFA programs) actually offers full tuition remission and a stipend to all MFA students, including international students, a sharp contrast to most Canadian programs.

Thanks for a thorough and timely overview to the MFA landscape in Canada.

A couple updates for any readers interested in learning more about UVic: I am the new Chair and Maureen Bradley is our Graduate Advisor ( [email protected] ) — we are both always happy to answer any questions about our different programs. Deadline for applications is December 1 every year. Funding roughly averages out to a $7,000 award in first year & $8,000 teaching assistantship in second year, with other scholarships available and a high success rate for SSHRC master’s applications.

A few other things that make our program unique: We are a five-genre department (fiction, poetry, stage drama, creative nonfiction, and screenwriting with an emphasis on film production) situated in a Fine Arts Faculty (Music, Theatre, Visual Arts, Art History & Visual Studies) rather than a Humanities Faculty, so there are even more opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations across the arts. Our Faculty has just added a Minor in Digital and Interactive Media in the Arts to capitalize on strengths and interests in this area.

And our MFA also focuses on teaching writers how to teach writing, with a grad seminar on pedagogy and instructional design, directed studies in teaching with faculty mentors, multiple teaching opportunities from large first-year lectures to small fourth-year workshops, and the chance to combine the MFA with UVic’s LATHE Certificate in teaching in higher education…. all of which are advantageous in a competitive job market.

We are in the midst of hiring a new professor in poetry — who is guaranteed to be a rock star in Canadian writing. And I would post a photo of the view from our windows overlooking Vancouver Island and the Salish Sea, but that would be cruel to colleagues snow-bound in the rest of Canada!

Thanks, David Leach [email protected]

The English PhD with a creative writing emphasis allows students to develop their creative writing and literary criticism, culminating in a dissertation of fiction or poetry. The distinguished faculty in the Center for Writers offer workshops in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, along with courses in craft, literary forms, and teaching creative writing. The program is also home to the Mississippi Review, a nationally recognized literary magazine. Our graduate programs pay particular attention to professional development, including scholarly and creative publishing. With its dual emphases in literature and creative writing, the English program offers students a uniquely hybrid experience in which emerging writers and critics study alongside one another and work with specialists in both fields, preparing students for creative, academic, and professional careers.

Admission Requirements

Successful applicants for regular admission to the PhD program usually have a GPA of 3.5 in all (undergraduate and graduate) English courses and will typically have completed a BA and/or an MA in English. Application materials include GRE general test scores, transcripts, three letters of recommendation, a statement of purpose, and a substantial writing sample. Letters of recommendation should be from persons qualified to assess the applicant’s readiness for graduate study.

Conditional admission is sometimes possible for applicants who do not meet all the criteria for regular admission. To remove conditional status, students must meet the Graduate School requirements described in the Admission Requirements and Procedures section of this Bulletin, and they must satisfy all additional requirements stipulated by the school.

Members of all underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

See Admission Requirements and Procedures    for other admission requirements.

Program Requirements and Academic Policies

Students must complete one research tool: either proficiency  in one foreign language OR six graduate hours of coursework in an allied field of study approved by their advisor or the Graduate Program Coordinator.

No more than 6 hours at the 500-level classes will count towards the degree.

Students must take ENG 690 - Practicum in the Theory and Teaching of Composition if they hold an assistantship that includes teaching as one of their duties.

Students must successfully complete a Doctoral Qualifying Examination.

Students must successfully complete a written Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam.

Students must write a dissertation and complete an oral defense of the dissertation (for fiction, 100 pages of fiction plus short introduction; for poetry, 60 pages of poetry plus introduction).

A 3.0 GPA is required for graduation.

See General Degree Requirements    and General Academic Information    for other requirements and policies.

Course Requirements (54 hours)

• ENG 640 - Critical Reading and Methods in English 3 hrs.
• ENG 898 - Dissertation 12 hrs.

Creative Writing Workshops, Fiction OR Poetry (12-15 hours)

• ENG 721 - Seminar in Fiction Writing 3 hrs.
• ENG 722 - Seminar in Poetry Writing 3 hrs.

Creative Writing Electives (6-9 hours)

• ENG 620 - Poetic Forms 3 hrs.
• ENG 625 - Readings in Fiction 3 hrs.
• ENG 626 - Readings in Poetry 3 hrs.
• ENG 627 - Introduction to Publishing 3 hrs.
• ENG 628 - Teaching Creative Writing 3 hrs.
• ENG 723 - Seminar in Nonfiction Writing 3 hrs.

Literature Courses (21 hours); within these courses, students must fulfill the following requirements:

• 1 early literature course in (American literature to 1865 or British literature to 1800)
• 1 course designated non-traditional
• 1 literary theory course or 1 course designated theory-rich
• Note: a single course may fulfill up to 2 of the above requirements

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Fully Funded PhD in Creative Writing at University of New Brunswick

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Are you looking to take your education and career to the next level? Do you have a passion for research and a desire to make meaningful contributions to your field of study? If so, a Funded PhD programs may be the perfect choice for you.

Attention all aspiring scholars and researchers! The University of New Brunswick is accepting applications for our prestigious funded PhD programs. Apply to the University of New Brunswick’s PhD program today and take the first step towards a rewarding and fulfilling academic career.

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The University of New Brunswick based in Fredericton, Saint John offers fully funded PhD in creative writing. The department boasts talented practitioners and instructors in all major genres of creative writing–fiction, poetry, playwriting, and screenwriting–as well as expertise in non-fiction and travel writing. The Ph.D. program is designed to give students the critical skills to teach literature and writing at the college or university levels. 

Eligibility Criteria 

• Earned master’s degree prior to entering the PhD.
• You are expected to have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 and subject-specific GPA of 3.5 or above.
• English language proficiency requirements (non-native English speakers)

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Ph.D. students at UNB are eligible to compete for $19,420 of assistantship funding per year for four years (2019-2020), providing academic progress is satisfactory.

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Application requirement .

• Official transcripts from previously attended college/ university.
• English language proficiency test scores such as TOEFL, IELTS, etc. (for non-native English speakers only)
• Entrance test scores, GRE*, GMAT* or other accepted scores*
• Research proposal
• Statement of purpose
• Writing samples
• Letters of recommendation
• Up-to-date resume
• Copy of passport
• Financial documents including bank statements

*Please check if GRE, GMAT is need at official university website.

Application Deadline

The application deadline is December 1.

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Applications are submitted through the online Graduate Application portal. Please upload all required documents on your Graduate Application.

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Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature

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Admission to the creative writing program is extremely competitive, with up to 20 new students across the two genres selected each year from the hundreds of applications received from around the world. The curriculum for Ph.D. students emphasizes creative writing and literary study. The city of Houston offers a vibrant, multi-cultural backdrop for studying creative writing at the University of Houston. With a dynamic visual and performing arts scene, the Houston metropolitan area supplies a wealth of aesthetic materials.

Overview of Admissions Requirements

Minimum requirements for admission.

• M.A. in English or M.F.A. in Creative Writing  
• 3.5 GPA in graduate studies 

Application Deadline

The admissions deadline for our Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature is January 15.

For more admissions information, visit the How to Apply web page for our Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature.  

History of the Creative Writing Program

Over the years many more internationally acclaimed writers have made the Program their home, including Mary Gaitskill, Richard Howard, Howard Moss, Linda Gregg, Adam Zagajewski, Daniel Stern, David Wojahn, Edward Hirsch, Alan Hollinghurst, Mark Strand, David Wagoner, Philip Levine, Charles Wright, Claudia Rankine, Kimiko Hahn, Mark Doty and Ruben Martinez.

Current faculty includes Erin Belieu, Robert Boswell, Audrey Colombe, Chitra Divakaruni, Nick Flynn, francine j. harris, Antonya Nelson, Alex Parsons, Kevin Prufer, Brenda Peynado, Martha Serpas, Roberto Tejada, and Peter Turchi.

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PhD in Creative Writing

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The PhD in Creative Writing and Literature is a four-year course of study. Following two years of course work that includes workshop, forms classes, pedagogical training, and literature, students take exams in two areas, one that examines texts through the lens of craft and another that examines them through the lens of literary history and theory. Recent examples of the genre area include Comic Fiction, History of the Love Lyric, and Fantasy; recent examples of the scholarly area include History of the Novel, 20th Century American Poetry, and Modern & Contemporary British Fiction. In the first two years, students take three courses per semester; the teaching load throughout the program is one class per semester. Every PhD student has the opportunity to teach creative writing, with many also teaching literature classes. Most students are funded by teaching, with two or three at a time funded by editorial work at  The Cincinnati Review or Acre Books, and others funded in their dissertation year by college- or university-level fellowships. Fifth-year support, while not guaranteed, has generally been available to interested students in the form of student lecturerships, which carry a 2-2 load. The Creative Writing PhD at the University of Cincinnati has maintained over the last decade more than a 75% placement rate into full-time academic jobs for its doctoral graduates. Two-thirds of these positions are tenure-track.

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MA in English (Creative Writing)

Write a book-length creative thesis.

The department boasts talented practitioners and instructors in all major genres of creative writing - fiction, poetry, playwriting and screenwriting - as well as expertise in non-fiction.

Students in the creative writing stream take a combination of academic and creative courses and write a book-length creative thesis in a genre of their choice.

The MA in English (creative writing) can be completed in twenty months. Many creative writing students have published their master’s theses and forged successful careers as writers and teachers in the years after graduation.

Requirements

Students will normally complete:

• Two creative writing workshops in different genres (6 ch)
• Three academic courses (9 ch)
• English 6100: Research Methods (6 ch)
• Thesis in creative genre with critical introduction
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