Overview
Key facts
The Creative Writing program of University of Guelph recognize the power of language to summon a different world. Defining characteristics include the plenary courses, the participation of a range of writers from Canada and abroad, individual mentorships, class visits from professionals, and alliances with cultural organizations in the Toronto area.
Required courses: three workshops, two reading-based plenary courses, an individual mentorship with a professional writer, and a book-length thesis project. Workshops: creative non-fiction, drama, fiction, poetry, writing the decolonial, and hybrid forms and mixed-mode narratives.
Are you interested in:
- Literary creation within a specific
- genre or across genres
- Dramatic creation
- Writing pedagogy
Career opportunities
- Writer
- Editor
- Teacher/Professor
- Publishing
- Any profession that requires highly sophisticated language and narrative skills
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Plenary Course: Writers on Writing
- Plenary Course: Writers in the World
- Poetry Workshop
- Fiction Workshop
- Writing the Decolonial-Fiction
- Hybrid Forms and Mixed-Mode Narratives
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 24 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Creative Writing Literature View 25 other Masters in Creative Writing in CanadaAcademic requirements
English requirements
Other requirements
General requirements
- Baccalaureate degree in an honours program, or equivalent, from a recognized degree-granting institution. No requirement as to the discipline in which the degree was earned.
- An average standing of at least second-class honours (B-) in last four semesters of study.
- A limited number of students may be admitted to the MFA without having satisfied the degree requirements and/or academic standing requirement set out above.
Tuition Fee
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International
15332 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 7666 CAD per semester during 24 months. -
National
6412 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3206 CAD per semester during 24 months.
Living costs for Toronto
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Funding
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