MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Cecily Nicholson, Bronwen Tate, Sheryda Warrener
Fiction: Anosh Irani, Nancy Lee, Annabel Lyon, Maureen Medved, Alix Ohlin, A.E. Osworth, Emily Pohl-Weary, Linda Svendsen, Timothy Taylor, John Vigna
Nonfiction: Mandy Catron, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Timothy Taylor
Writing for Children/YA: Emily Pohl-Weary, Jordan Scott, Tanya Kyi
Writing for Television: Linda Svendsen
Screenwriting: Sharon McGowan, Zac Hug
Playwriting: Sara Graefe, Frances Koncan
Indigenous Writing: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Graphic Novel: Sarah Leavitt
Lyric & Libretto: Tariq Hussain
Speculative Fiction: Nalo Hopkinson, Whitney French
New Media: Jen Moss
The program offers partial funding. The program offers teaching assistantships, graduate supportive initiative scholarships, and endowed scholarships.
This Optional-Residency (Distance) MFA program was the first distance education MFA program in Canada and remains the only full MFA which can be taken completely online. The program offers courses in graphic novel writing, playwriting, writing for television, screenwriting, and writing for children. Students are required to take coursework in three genres during the degree.
Most students attend an optional ten-day residency that is offered each July at the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver.
Paulette Bourgeois, Amy Jones, Ellen Keith, Amy Stuart, Sarah Selecky, Shyam Selvadurai, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Katherena Vermette