Ontario Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing

Humber Polytechnic

Humber’s Creative Writing graduate certificate program helps you improve your writing from the comfort of home. You’ll work one-on-one with a professional writer-mentor to improve your draft book-length project, learning how to develop plot, character, dialogue, imagery, style and more through direct feedback on your own manuscript. Humber is noted for its exceptional creative writing mentors, including authors of world stature. Past mentors include Edward Albee, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey, Esi Edugyan, Samantha Harvey, Lawrence Hill, Ha Jin, Alistair MacLeod, Anne Michaels, David Mitchell, Jenny Offil, Nino Ricci and Miriam Toews. We've recently added a playwright, a screenwriter and two children's writers to our list of available mentors, giving you the opportunity to complete all or part of a full-length novel, memoir, feature-length screenplay or full-length play or a collection of poetry, short fiction or creative nonfiction essays or a portfolio of picture books, early readers and/or middle-grade readers. This is a project-based program in which you meet the learning outcomes by working through your own manuscript. You will also attend weekly online classes synchronously or asynchronously to discuss craft, readings and the writing process in support of your development. This program is open to international students both in Canada and abroad. However, please note that this program is not postgraduate work-permit eligible.

Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design