Certificate - Creative Writing
- 1 year
- Duration
- 18,833 CAD
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Certificate
- Degree
- Online
- Format
- Toronto / Canada
- Location
Program description
Humber's Creative Writing – Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Poetry graduate certificate program is online. You'll work one-on-one with a professional writer-mentor to improve your short stories, poetry, memoir, or novel-in-progress through comments on your own manuscript. The program is for those working on book-length projects, such as a novel, memoir, short story collection, or poetry book.
Students can now work with a playwright mentor on a full-length play.
Humber has world-renowned writing coaches. Martin Amis, Peter Carey, Miriam Toews, David Mitchell, Esi Edugyan, Nino Ricci, Margaret Atwood, Lawrence Hill, Anne Michaels, Edward Albee, Ha Jin, and Alistair MacLeod were mentors. Jenny Offill, Nell Freudenberger, and Samantha Harvey are international novelists.
This is a project-based program where you complete your own manuscript.
Program structure
Semester 1
- Manuscript Development 1
Semester 2
- Manuscript Development 2
Price
Fees per semester:
- Tuition 8,775 CAD
- Compulsory Ancillary Fee 444 CAD
- Compulsory Student Union Fee 66 CAD
- IGNITE Health and Dental Insurance Fee 111 CAD
- Enhanced Student Experience Fee (Optional) 20 CAD
- Program Ancillary Fee 0.00 CAD
- Co-op/Placement 0.00 CAD
Total 9,416 CAD
Requirements for applicants
International Academic Equivalencies:
- A bachelor’s degree, diploma or advanced diploma
- Applicants must submit their work-in-progress form
- Applicants must submit a sample of their writing that is no more than 15 pages in length. The manuscript must be prepared according to professional standards: double-spaced, and with name, title, and page number on each page.
- Applicants must submit a cover letter describing their project and writing experience, as well as any relevant life experience.
For Indian applicants one of the following:
- Bachelor’s degree placed in the First Division/Class, university transcripts (Consolidated Transcripts are Not Acceptable), and backlog summary
To be eligible for admission you must possess a bachelor’s degree or advanced diploma.
English Proficiency requirements are:
- A minimum TOEFL Academic Level score of 550 (paper based) or 80 (internet based) or
- an IELTS with an overall minimum score of 6.0 (with no single band score below 5.5) or
- CAEL with an overall band score of 60 or
- Cambridge English Test with B2 First / C1 Advanced / C2 Proficiency 169 (with no single subscore below 162) or
- Duolingo Language Test with score 105 and above+
- International applicants may be asked to submit an ICAS or WES evaluation.
About the university
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning (known as Humber College) was fonded in 1967. The college is located in Toronto, Canada.
The Humber North and the Lakeshore are the two primary campuses at Humber.
Humber College offers over 200 programs in 40 fields of study.
Students at Humber receive a polytechnic education. We educate theory, incorporate practical, hands-on training, and collaborate with employers to provide students with real-world learning opportunities. This innovative and entrepreneurial approach, which is taught in state-of-the-art and creative learning facilities, prepares students for today's and tomorrow's careers.
We are committed to your long-term success. A Humber education will help you map a sure path to your career and keep you up to date on shifting trends in the professional world as technology advances. Our programs combine theory and practice, allowing you to get practical experience both in the classroom and on the work. Professors with industry experience will teach you what skills are in demand.
