Writing

Overview

The Writing workshops are on-site only and do not have an on-line component. In both years students take a variety of courses; in the second, students also complete a thesis. The thesis can be a novel, a work of creative non-fiction, a play, a collection of poems or short stories.

Connecting with Saskatchewan’s community of writers, students at the Writing MFA program offered at University of Saskatchewan work individually with a writer based on the complementary nature of the student’s project and the writer’s own style and genre. Saskatoon provides an environment that encourages the craft of writing. From a weekly-held poetry slam to independent theatre companies, twenty-five publishers, and award winning writers, literary arts are part of the city’s lifeblood. In 2013, the MFA in Writing launched the River Volta Reading Series, a student-run reading series in the community.

Workshop Titles

Specific dates for graduate writing workshops will be added in early September.  

•  Avoiding Plagiarism
•  Writing Well-Organized Paragraphs
•  Flow and Coherence in Your Writing
•  Punctuating with Confidence
•  Integrating Evidence into Your Writing
•  Writing a Literature Review
•  Writing a Thesis Proposal
•  Structuring and Writing Your Thesis - Part 1
•  Structuring and Writing Your Thesis - Part 2
•  Writing an Academic Argument