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Creative Writing

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Have you longed to explore your creative potential?

Embrace the unknown and start your journey here. As part of one of the largest Creative Writing programs in Canada, you can learn the essentials of excellent writing and put them into practice. Whether you aspire to write a novel or short story, explore poetry, pen a script or screenplay, or explore other writing styles, we have the courses you need to improve your skills.

Class sizes and writers workshops are kept small to ensure you receive the individual attention you need to help your writing thrive, whether you take your class in-class or online. 

Courses in the genres listed below can be applied to the Certificate in Creative Writing

• Creative Non-Fiction
• Escritura Creativa en Español
• Literary Fiction
• Multi-genre
• Poetry and Songwriting
• Popular Fiction
• Stage and Screenwriting
• U of T Summer Writing School
• Writing for Children

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Sharon English

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream Writing & Rhetoric Program

Courses taught in 2020/2021 WRR311:  Seminar on Creative Writing – Fiction

Sharon English has been teaching creative writing in the Writing & Rhetoric Program since 2008, focusing on fiction and creative nonfiction. From 2016-2021, she served as the program’s director. During this time, she also directed the Innis One Program, where she taught a course in writing creative nonfiction.

Originally from London, Ontario, Sharon graduated from Western University and studied at the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining Innis, she taught professional writing at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), and George Brown College, and worked as a freelance editor. She began teaching at the Innis College Writing Centre in 2000, where she taught for many years, and twice served as the centre’s director.

Sharon’s books include the newly released novel Night in the World (May 2022), and two collections of short stories, Uncomfortably Numb and Zero Gravity . Zero Gravity was long-listed for the Giller Prize, short-listed for the ReLit Award, and was a Globe & Mail Best 100 title of the year. A translation into Serbian was published in 2020.  Night in the World  has been described as “a splendid and searing novel, pressed up against the tremours of our times.”

Sharon’s stories, essays and interviews have also appeared in numerous journals, including Best Canadian Stories, Canadian Notes & Queries (CNQ), Dark Matter: Women Witnessing , and Dark Mountain in Britain. She was guest co-editor of the Winter 2020 special issue of CNQ, “Writing in an Age of Unravelling,” which featured writing that addresses ecological crisis.

My teaching and research

A research team member of the Persephone Project , Sharon has been dedicated to re-imagining our relationship to home in the context of ecological and social crisis, and to pursuing writing and storytelling that align with the natural world. Her courses involve workshop-based and experiential learning. In 2023, she’s excited to be offering a special topics course on land-based writing.

Sharon English 

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream  [email protected]  

Have questions about W&R?

Need more info? Want to discuss if the Writing & Rhetoric Program is right for you? Looking for help choosing courses? Jannie Chien, Innis College academic program coordinator, can help!

[email protected] 416-946-7107

Creative Writing for Everyone

If you’re looking for a less intensive way than a graduate degree to improve your creative writing, U of T’s School of Continuing Studies offers many options

U of T’s highly selective, and tiny, creative writing MA program isn’t the only route for those looking to unleash their inner voice on the page. Since the mid-1990s, U of T’s School of Continuing Studies has offered creative writing courses; it formalized its creative writing certificate program in 2001.

Lee Gowan took the reins as the program’s director in 2003, and since then it has quadrupled in size. The focus is on process: students are taught elements of narrative and structure, then are given assignments that will get them using what they’ve learned in the classroom. Gowan reports that most of the program’s students are between the ages of 35 and 55, and many speak English as a second (or third or fourth) language.

“We have over 2,000 registrations per year,” says Gowan, and students can choose among courses geared toward different types of creative writing. Among the program’s nearly 100 instructors are such celebrated authors as Dennis Bock, Michael Winter and poet Ken Babstock, who has also been involved with the MA program. Gowan says faculty overlap between the two programs is not uncommon.

Anyone can enrol in creative writing courses at the school, and it has produced its own share of notable alumni. Marina Nemat’s bestselling 2007 memoir Prisoner of Tehran was written during her time in Continuing Studies.

“These courses help people with the craft, they give people a deadline, and they give people a community, which is one of the most important things in a writer’s life,” Gowan says.

“It can really help to have a group to support you and offer feedback to help you to improve.”

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Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy the Department of English's additional admission requirements stated below.

A minimum of 7 full-year undergraduate courses in English or the equivalent in half-year courses (i.e., 14), or any combination of full- and half-year courses that add up to the equivalent of 7 full-year courses in English.

An appropriate bachelor's degree (i.e., a four-year undergraduate degree) or its equivalent (preferably in English) with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of B+ or better and evidence of first-class work in English. The department favours a broad training in the major genres and all periods of English literary history.

Recommendations from two referees.

A statement of purpose.

A portfolio consisting of 20 to 25 pages of prose (drama, fiction, or creative non-fiction) and/or poetry. See details about the format of creative writing portfolio submissions .

Applicants whose primary language is not English and who graduated from a university where the language of instruction and examination was not English are required to write the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Minimum scores required are:

600 on the paper-based test and 5 on the Test of Written English (TWE)

100/120 on the Internet-based test, with at least 22/30 on the writing and speaking sections

Admissions are selective; possession of minimum qualifications does not guarantee admission.

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Coursework. Students must successfully complete a total of 3.5 full-course equivalents (FCEs) as follows:

ENG6950Y Workshop in Creative Writing : all students must complete the Workshop in Creative Writing in Year 1 of their program

ENG6960H Advanced Creative Writing Workshop : all students must complete the Advanced Creative Writing Workshop in Year 2 of their program

2.0 approved graduate FCEs in English

Students must attain a minimum B standing in each graduate course.

Supervised Writing Project (the equivalent of a thesis). In Year 2 of their program, students undertake a book-length Writing Project in a genre of their choice: poetry, drama, fiction, or creative non-fiction. Each student is assigned a faculty member or adjunct faculty member with whom to consult on a regular basis about the project. All advisors are published writers.

The MA in English in the field of Creative Writing program cannot be taken on a part-time basis.

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The creative research option is available to cultural producers with an established practice and/or academic qualifications in relevant disciplines (music, theatre, creative writing, visual arts, etc.) who are interested in engaging their practice with rigorous humanities-based theory and scholarship. The mandate of Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto is to engage in theoretically informed research that not only crosses linguistic and cultural divisions but also works across media and disciplines. Our PhD program thus supports projects involving creative research methods that engage with critical inquiry and investigation at the doctoral level.

Applicants should signal their interest in this option and indicate the preparation they have for it in the letter of intent accompanying their application to the PhD program. An advisory committee of faculty with expertise in creative research methods will review the application. This committee will be available to discuss the plan with the student before the end of the first year of the PhD, in order to provide support for developing a feasible project. Students who have chosen to pursue this creative research option will produce a dissertation that incorporates a creative process (work of art, performance, film, play, text, etc.) as one of the investigative methods. Their supervisory committee will include at least one member of the university community working in the relevant field of creative practice.

From conception, through qualifying exam and proposal defence, oral defence, and final dissertation, students choosing this option are encouraged to think about ways to dynamically integrate creative processes or projects into their research methodologies. . Much as a conventional dissertation contains research of publishable quality, the thesis project involving research creation methods must meet academic expectations and the standards of disciplinary or artistic rigour in the sphere(s) in which they operate.

Creative research is defined with reference to the “Research Creation” approach to research that combines creative and academic research practices and supports the development of knowledge and innovation through artistic expression, scholarly investigation, and experimentation. The relation between the creation process and the research activity should be put into question and produce critically informed work. Fields of research-creation may include, but are not limited to: architecture, design, creative writing, visual arts, performance, film, video, interdisciplinary arts, media and electronic arts, and new artistic practices (including experiments with the hard and social sciences). 

(This definition of Research Creation is taken from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, accessed 2019)

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The ability to think critically and to write well-organized, clear, grammatical prose is important to your work in Arts and Science courses. It will also improve your chances if you apply to graduate or professional schools and will give you an advantage in the workplace. To help you develop your writing skills, Arts and Science provides a range of instructional resources.

For courses in creative writing, see entries under “ English ” (ENG), “ Innis College ” (WRR), and “ Victoria College ” (CRE) in this Calendar.

Departments and programs integrate writing instruction into many of their courses, and some offer courses that concentrate on communication in their disciplines. Check the course listings by department.

Your course instructors and teaching assistants will provide guidelines for written assignments. They will often offer instruction in class and give you the opportunity to ask questions before assignments are due. You may ask them to discuss work that has been graded and returned to you.

In addition, the university offers several courses in writing effective essays:

• ENG100H1  (Effective Writing) is listed under “ English ” in this Calendar
• WRR103H1 (Introduction to Academic Essay Writing) is listed under “ Innis College ”
• WRR203H1  (Advanced Essay Writing) is listed under “Innis College”
• JWE206H1  (Writing English Essays) is listed under “English” and “Innis College”

Innis College’s Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric  offers an array of courses that explore the worlds of oral, written, and online discourse. Rhetoric courses focus on how persuasion circulates in society, while writing courses teach students how to employ rhetoric and to write well in the modes, genres, and styles appropriate to particular disciplinary, institutional, and creative contexts. Visit course listings under  Innis College in this Calendar.

Victoria College offers a minor program called Creative Expression and Society . It has two components: (1) workshop-style courses allowing students to develop skills in creative expression and communication, and (2) courses encouraging students to analyze the relationship between creative arts and society. Visit course listings under Victoria College in this Calendar.

Trinity College offers the course TRN478H1 (Science Writing for Non-Scientific Audiences). It focuses on a diversity of non-scientific audiences and writing styles.

The University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM) offers a major and minor program in Professional Writing and Communication. The University of Toronto at Scarborough (UTSC) offers a major and minor program in Creative Writing. Consult with your college registrar about taking courses at either campus, and see the UTM and UTSC calendars for more detail about courses offerings. 

English Language Learning Opportunities

The  English Language Learning (ELL) Program  offers undergraduates in Arts and Science a variety of ways to develop both oral and written communication. Intensive non-credit mini-courses are offered during fall and winter reading weeks and during the summer. During the fall and winter terms, programming includes free drop-in workshops using a variety of interesting activities to improve speaking, and also an online component for improving academic reading and writing.

Writing Centres

The writing centres at undergraduate colleges will help you develop the writing and critical thinking skills you need throughout your university studies. They offer, free of charge, both group and individual instruction.

Group instruction is offered through both in-course instruction and a series of workshops called Writing Plus. These intensive group workshops help prepare you to meet the expectations of university writing. They cover all stages of writing university papers, from understanding the assignment to revising the final draft. They also provide targeted advice for handling your reading load and the challenges of studying for tests and exams. Special sessions focus on writing admissions statements for graduate and professional programs. Dates and locations are listed online in the Writing Plus section of  www.writing.utoronto.ca .

In individual consultations, trained writing instructors help you improve your ability to plan, write, and revise, focusing on course writing assignments of your choice. Instructors are familiar with writing conventions in the whole range of Arts and Science courses; many have specialized training in teaching students whose first language is not English. You are entitled to use the writing centre of the college where you are registered. Most colleges also allow students from other colleges to book appointments for writing assignments in a college program course. All the college writing centres use an online booking system that requires your UTORid for login. More information is available in the Writing Centres section of  www.writing.utoronto.ca . Here is a list of Arts and Science writing centres:

• French Department Writing Labs: ask your professor or inquire at 416-926-2302
• Innis College Writing Centre, Rooms 315 and 322
• New College Writing Centre, Wilson Hall, Rooms 2045 and 2047
• Philosophy Department Essay Clinic, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 422.
• St. Michael’s College Writing Centre, Kelly Library, Learning Commons
• Trinity College Writing Centre, Academic Resource Centre, 6 Hoskins Avenue, basement
• University College Writing Centre, UC sUCcess Commons, Room 259
• Victoria College Writing Centre, rooms listed on appointment schedule
• Woodsworth College Academic Writing Centre, Room 214

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Campus libraries stock many reference guides for academic writing, some of them online. You will find both general handbooks on style and referencing, and guides on writing in specific disciplines. You can also consult the Advice section of the website Writing at the University of Toronto at  www.writing.utoronto.ca . It contains short files addressing common issues in academic writing along with links to other useful online and print resources.

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Creative Writing

Two programs within the umbrella of the Department of English focus on particular aspects or genres of literary endeavor.

The purpose of the Creative Writing program is to give students a rigorous background in the fundamentals of creative work by providing them with the opportunity to study with established poets and prose writers. The program is committed to interdisciplinary work while also teaching the elements of creative writing that underlie all genres. Creative Writing sponsors events , workshops , and lectures and also schedules many undergraduate and graduate classes in writing. Visiting writers each quarter provide a dynamic component to the curriculum, with authors ranging from George Saunders to Susan Howe. English faculty member John Wilkinson is currently the Director of the Program in Creative Writing and the Program in Poetry & Poetics, and several English faculty members, including Rachel Cohen, Edgar Garcia, Srikanth Reddy, Jennifer Scappettone, and Vu Tran, regularly teach both creative and critical classes.

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Minor in English and Creative Writing

Undergraduate students who are not majoring in English may enter a minor program in English and Creative Writing. These students should declare their intention to enter the minor program by the end of Spring Quarter of their third year. Students choose courses in consultation with the Program Manager in Creative Writing and must submit a minor program consent form to their College Adviser in order to declare the minor. Students completing this minor must follow all relevant admission procedures described in the  Creative Writing  website. Courses in the minor may not be double counted with the student's major(s) or with other minors and may not be counted toward general education requirements. Courses in the minor must be taken for quality letter grades, and all of the requirements for the minor must be met by registering for courses bearing University of Chicago course numbers.

Requirements for the minor program:

• 2 Creative Writing courses (at least one at the Special Topics or advanced level)
• 3 Creative Writing or English electives
• 1 portfolio/projects workshop (or advanced workshop depending on genre) to be taken in the Winter Quarter of the students' fourth year
• A portfolio of the student's work to be submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies by the end of the fifth week in the quarter in which the student plans to graduate. The portfolio might consist of a selection of poems, one or two short stories or chapters from a novel, a substantial part or the whole of a play, two or three non-fiction pieces, and so forth.

There is no minor solely in English. The Minor in English and Creative Writing for Non-English Majors is the only minor available through the Department of English.

Poetry and Poetics

This program aims to coordinate the University's various curricular approaches to the creative and critical practice of poetics. The Program supports the History and Forms of Lyric series, an ongoing series of lectures by prominent scholars, and a graduate workshop that focuses on work in progressfrom students, faculty, and visitors. The discussions enabled by the Program are intended to help students at all levels to pursue work that crosses disciplines and discourses. The Program also supports collaboration among faculty members in the form, forexample, of team-taught courses, conferences, and lectures. The Program is overseen by an ad-hoc committee of faculty from various departments, including the Department of English.

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The University of Chicago in general, and the Department of English in particular, are known for the interdisciplinary and theoretically driven work of their faculty and students. Many English faculty members have joint appointment in other programs at the University, including Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, Art History, Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS), and the Divinity School, among others. Interdisciplinary work is encouraged in the Department of English--both graduate and undergraduate students take classes in a variety of University departments and programs. Students in these programs, in turn, enliven English classes with their perspectives. Listed below are links to some of the departments with which the Department of English works closely.

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MA in the Field of Creative Writing Program Adjunct Faculty (Mentor) Biographies

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Tamara Faith Berger  writes fiction, non-fiction and screenplays. She is the author of Lie With Me (2001), The Way of the Whore (2004), (republished together by Coach House Books as Little Cat in 2013), Maidenhead (2012), Kuntalini (2016), Queen Solomon (2018) and Yara (2023). Maidenhead was nominated for a Trillium Book Award and it won the Believer Book Award. Her work has been published in Apology, Canadian Art, Taddle Creek and Canadian Notes and Queries. She has a BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. 

Lynn Crosbie ,  Montreal born, is a cultural critic, the author of four books of poetry: Miss Pamela's Mercy, VillainElle, Pearl and a collection of new and selected work, Queen Rat.  Her recent collection of poems, Pearl, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She is also the author of the controversial book, Paul's Case and the editor of The Girl Wants To and Click. She lives in Toronto, and has a PhD in English literature (on the work of Anne Sexton). Crosbie teaches at the Ontario College of Art and the University of Toronto. 

Nathan Englander finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, Nathan Englander is a celebrated voice in American literature who draws upon his Orthodox Jewish upbringing in both his writing and lectures. Englander's debut, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges , became an international bestseller and earned him the PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award. His latest work is kaddish.com, a novel that brilliantly highlights his wit and humor. 

Camilla Gibb  has a BA in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Toronto, and she completed her PhD in social anthropology at Oxford University in 1997. She spent two years at the University of Toronto as a postdoctoral research fellow before becoming a full-time writer. She is the author of four novels:  Mouthing the Words  (1999),  The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life  (2002),  Sweetness in the Belly  (2005) and  The Beauty of Humanity Movement  (2011), and a memoir,  This Is Happy  (2016), as well as numerous short stories, articles and reviews. She was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize in 2016, she won the Trillium Book Award in 2006, was a Giller Prize nominee in 2005, the winner of the City of Toronto Book Award in 2000 and the recipient of the CBC Canadian Literary Award for short fiction in 2001. Her books have been published in 18 countries and translated into 14 languages, and she was named by the jury of the prestigious Orange Prize as one of 21 writers to watch in the new century. She is currently the June Callwood Professor in Social Justice at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Visit her website at:  http://www.camillagibb.ca/

Anne Michaels ' books have been translated into more than forty-five languages and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. She is the recipient of honorary degrees, the Guggenheim Fellowship and many other honours. She has been shortlisted for the Governor-General's Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, twice shortlisted for the Giller Prize and twice longlisted for the IMPAC Award. Her novel,  Fugitive Pieces,  was adapted as a feature film. From 2015 to 2019, she was Toronto's Poet Laureate. Her new novel,  Held , will be released in November 2023.

Michael Redhill  is a Giller Prize-winning novelist, poet and playwright. He is the author of the novels Consolation , longlisted for Man Booker Prize; Martin Sloane , a finalist for the Giller Prize; and most recently, Bellevue Squar e, winner of the 2017 Giller Prize. He has written a novel for young adults, four collections of poetry and two plays, including the internationally celebrated Goodness . He also writes a series of crime novels under the name Inger Ash Wolfe. He lives in Toronto, ON. 

Rebecca Rosenblum is the author of two collections of short stories, Once and The Big Dream . Her stories have been short-listed for the Journey Prize, a National Magazine Award, and the Danuta Gleed Award; won the Metcalfe-Rooke Award; and been turned into a stage play and a short film. Her most recent book is the novel So Much Love, shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award and the Trillium Prize and one of The Globe and Mail's , the National Post's , and Quill and Quire's Books of the Year in 2017.

Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. She is the author of five collections of poetry.  Short Haul Engine  (Brick Books, 2001) won the Dorothy Livesay Award and was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize.  Modern and Normal  (Brick Books, 2005) was shortlisted for the Trillium Poetry Prize.  Pigeon  (Anansi, 2009) won the Pat Lowther Award, Trillium Poetry Prize, and the Griffin Prize.  The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out  (Anansi, FSG, 2014) was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award.  The Caiplie Caves  (Anansi, Picador, 2019; FSG, 2020) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Derek Walcott Prize. Her selected poems,  The Living Option , published in the UK by Bloodaxe Books in 2013, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She has received the Latner Poetry Prize and the Canada Council for the Arts Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for an artist in mid-career. The 2021 Jack McClelland Writer in Residence for the University of Toronto, and the 2022 Holloway Visiting Poet for the University of California at Berkeley, she is currently a lecturer in creative writing with the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

Carmine Starnino has published five collections of poetry, including  This Way Out , which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 2009 and recently translated into French by Éditions Hashtag under the title  Par Ici La Sortie . His most recent collection is  Leviathan . His other books include  The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry  and  Lazy Bastardism , a collection of essays on contemporary poetry. He has received numerous awards, including the CAA Prize for Poetry, the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and the F.G. Bressani Prize, in addition to being shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Prize for the best first book of poetry.

Journalist, feminist, novelist, activist, teacher, Susan Swan ’s impact on the Canadian literary and political scene has been far-reaching. She has retired from her position of Associate Professor of Humanities at York University and currently mentors creative writing students at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. In 1999-2000, she was York’s Millennial Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies. As chair, she hosted the successful Millennial Wisdom Symposium in Toronto featuring artists and social scientists debating the ways the lessons of the past. As chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada (2007-2008) Swan brought in a new benefits deal for Canadian writers and self-employed Canadians in the arts.

Souvankham Thammavongsa   is the author of four poetry books, and the short story collection HOW TO PRONOUNCE KNIFE, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and 2021 Trillium Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN America Open Book Award, out now with Little, Brown (U.S.), McClelland & Stewart (Canada), and Bloomsbury (U.K.), available in French, with foreign rights sold in China, Korea, Poland, and Turkey. Her stories have won an O. Henry Award and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Granta , and NOON . She has also written book reviews for The New York Times , and edited the anthologies Best Canadian Poetry (2021) and The Griffin Poetry Prize (2021). She is known for her PowerPoint videos on Zoom about writing, most recently one titled "I Am Not That Interesting." Currently, she is working on her first novel. She was born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, and was raised, and educated at public schools, in Toronto. 

Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang   is a poet, children’s writer and teacher. Her books of poetry include Status Update (2013), which was nominated for the Pat Lowther Award, and Sweet Devilry (2011), which won the Gerald Lampert Award. Her new book of poetry, Grappling Hook , is forthcoming with Palimpsest Press. She was shortlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019 and longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2018. Tsiang’s poetry has won the Arc Magazine Reader’s Choice for Poem of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Forward Awards, Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse contest, the Bliss Carmen Poetry Award, and the Re-lit Award. Her work has also been featured in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry and many other anthologies. She is the editor of the poetry collection, Desperately Seeking Susans (2013).

Phoebe Wang is a first generation Chinese-Canadian, I was born in Ottawa, the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe. I graduated with a B.A. in Honours English at York University and a M.A. in English and Creative Writing at the University of Toronto.  Admission Requirements , my first collection of poetry, was published with McClelland and Stewart in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lambert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and nominated for the Trillium Book Award. My second collection,  Waking Occupations , appeared in Spring 2022 with McClelland and Stewart. My fiction and nonfiction has appeared in  Brick   Magazine ,  The Globe and Mail ,  The New Quarterly ,  What the Poets are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation,  Refuse: CanLit in Ruins , and  The Unpublished City , shortlisted for a Toronto Book Award. I co-edited  The Unpublished City: Volume II, The Lived City.  From 2021-2022 I served as Writer-In-Residence at the University of New Brunswick and have edited poetry with  The Fiddlehead  magazine and Brick Books. I am a mentor with Diaspora Dialogues and the University of Toronto Creative Writing MA program ,  and am currently a Writing and Learning Consultant for ELL students at OCAD University, where I have also been a sessional instructor in Creative Writing. I am currently working on a manuscript of creative nonfiction that navigates sailing and identity. 

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ASU lit conference to examine how creative writing can create stronger communities

Desert Nights, Rising Stars returns with more than 95 workshops, panels and readings

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In times of societal unrest, taking the time to come together and share our stories can be a powerful step toward righting the ship.

In the words of Alberto Rios , Arizona’s inaugural poet laureate and director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing : “Writing is our way forward.”

Arizona State University is facilitating that path with this year's Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, set to take place Oct. 10–12 at the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus. 

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View the conference schedule on the Piper Center website. 

A single day pass is $150. Discounted rates are available for seniors, Arizona educators, people with disabilities and military personnel. ASU students, faculty and staff are eligible for a special rate of $50.

The conference spans a variety of genres and forms — fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, memoir, screenwriting, young adult — with sessions on editing, publishing, the business of writing and the writing life. It will touch upon such topics as food writing, climate change, graphic novels, Indigeneity, disability studies, hybrid forms, social justice and more.

Hosted by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU, this year’s conference offers 95 workshops, classes, readings and panels, as well as craft lectures by more than 100 presenters, including local writers.

“The conference theme for this year is ‘Craft. Culture. Community,’” said Sheila Black, assistant director of the Piper Center. “We want to focus on storytelling as a community-building activity and also offer something different from the world’s headlines — a space for reflection and imagination.”

This year’s lineup features keynote speakers and award-winning poets Nicole Sealey (“The Ferguson Report: An Erasure”) and John Murillo (“Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry”). Sealey and Murillo will discuss how by allowing space for unbridled thought, creative writing can and does make things happen in the world, and how we can view our art as a way of forging stronger communities.

Other featured writers taking part in the conference include Arizona poet Sherwin Bitsui, novelist Debra Magpie Earling, poet and novelist Phillip B. Williams, poets Cindy Juyoung Ok and Diana Khoi Nguyen, and memoirist Deborah Taffa. The conference will also feature readings and panels by members of national literary organizations CantoMundo (now housed at Piper), Letras Latinas and Kundiman SW.

Rios will also be teaching at the conference.

“Every pencil is filled with a book. When writers gather, pencils talk,” Rios said. “... We can each contribute something good to the world.”

Christie Swedbergh, associate director of the Piper Center, said it’s the second year running the conference after a hiatus due to COVID-19.

“Last year’s conference was a great success, and we learned many writers have missed these community connections,” Swedbergh said. “That’s why this conference is so unique and special — it allows for intimate connections between writers of all levels so that they really feel like a part of the community.

ASU Professor Sally Ball has been attending the conference for over two decades. She will be giving a reading with other conference faculty poets and will also give a talk about collaboration across art forms, based on her work with award-winning Czech gravurist Jan Vičar on their large-scale limited-edition artist’s book, “HOLD.”

“The Desert Nights, Rising Stars Conference stands out because the Piper Center puts a lot of emphasis on emerging writers — both conference fellows and ASU MFA students as well,” said Ball, an English professor, author and director of creative writing for ASU’s  Department of English . “We also have a lot of veteran writers who return to DNRS year after year, and they often turn to each other, which is nice.”

Ball said attending the conference also has another added benefit for her.

“When you are a teacher, the big risk is that you’re lulled by expertise — you can get set in your opinions,” Ball said. “At events like this, we all go to each other’s lectures and hear a wide array of writers, and it’s expansive, provocative. It’s like being a student all over again.”

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2024-2025 Career Development Professorship Awardees

From Dr. Gloria Waters, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer

Each year, Boston University has the pleasure of awarding Career Development Professorships to several talented junior faculty members emerging as future leaders in their fields.

This year’s awards are made possible through the generous support of BU Trustee S.D. Shibulal (MET ’88) and his family; BU alumnus Peter J. Levine (ENG ’83); the estate of BU alumni Virginia Wetherill (CAS ’52) and Laurence Bloom (CAS ’68); a donor who wishes to remain anonymous; and proceeds from the University’s Technology Development Office.

The professorships include a three-year, non-renewable research award designed to support research, scholarship, and creative work, as well as defrayal of a portion of the recipients’ salaries. Nominations are submitted by the academic deans, and awardees are selected by the Office of the Provost. The following professorships were awarded this year:

• The Shibulal Family Career Development Professorship supports the research of rising faculty within the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences.
• The Peter J. Levine Career Development Professorship supports rising junior faculty in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
• The Wetherill-Bloom Career Development Professorship in the Humanities recognizes excellence in humanities scholarship within the College of Arts & Sciences.
• The East Asia Studies Career Development Professorship , supported by a BU alumnus based in Taiwan, recognizes assistant professors in the College of Arts & Sciences, the Pardee School of Global Studies, the College of Communication, the College of Fine Arts, and the Questrom School of Business whose research is specific to East Asia, particularly China and Taiwan.
• The Innovation Career Development Professorship recognizes junior faculty whose translational research is likely to lead to future licensed technology.

This year’s Career Development Professorship recipients have been recognized for their extraordinary accomplishments in their areas of study, their passion for the creation and transmission of new knowledge, their efforts to enhance the student experience, and their potential to develop into outstanding faculty members. I am delighted to announce that this year’s Career Development Professors are:

Shibulal Family Career Development Professorship

Brian Cleary Assistant Professor of Computing & Data Sciences, Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences Brian Cleary’s research in computational biology applies algorithmic learning and experimental lab methods to better understand molecular, cellular, and tissue processes, including gene expression – work with potential to address fundamental problems associated with human disease. He holds additional appointments in the Departments of Biology and Biomedical Engineering and has been supported by substantial grants from the National Institutes of Health and BU’s Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering. He received his PhD in computational and systems biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a BS in biology and in business, economics, and management from California Institute of Technology.

Peter J. Levine Career Development Professorship

Tianyu Wang Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering Tianyu Wang combines physics-inspired computing, biomedical optics, and AI to develop faster, more efficient photonic-based computing and sensing technologies capable of delivering highly detailed deep-tissue imaging, including of the human brain. He holds a patent and recently received a major grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative to support his research with quantum-inspired light sources. He received a PhD in applied and engineering physics and a BS in biological engineering from Cornell University, where he also completed his postdoctoral work.

Wetherill-Bloom Career Development Professorship in the Humanities

Catalina Rodríguez Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, College of Arts & Sciences Catalina Rodríguez is a scholar of Latin American literature and culture from the 19th century forward, whose writings focus on gender and sexuality studies, women’s literature, theories of authorship, ecofeminism, and queer literature. She has published multiple book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and reviews and is at work on her first book, Writing Like a Woman: Gendered Pseudonyms in Nineteenth Century . She holds a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Northwestern University and a BA in Hispanic and Latin literature from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.

East Asia Studies Career Development Professorship

Daigengna Duoer Assistant Professor of Religion, College of Arts & Sciences Daigengna Duoer is a historian who explores religion and politics at the intersection of the Chinese, Japanese, and Russian empires, with particular focus on transnational Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism in the 20th century. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Mongolia Foundation, and she is at work on a forthcoming book, Buddhism Beyond the Nation and the Empire: Transnational Buddhists in Modern East and Inner Asia . She holds a PhD in religious studies from University of California, Santa Barbara and a MA and HBA in Buddhist studies from University of Toronto.

Innovation Career Development Professorship

Joseph Derosa Assistant Professor of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences Joseph Derosa is forging new ground at the interface of metal catalysis and organic synthesis, leveraging voltage-controlled electrolysis as a tool with great translational potential in the development of new drugs and chemical processes. He has published 23 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals including Nature and the Journal of the American Chemical Society and, prior to joining BU, received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship. He holds a PhD in chemistry from the Scripps Research Institute and a BS in biochemistry from the Macaulay Honors College at the City College of New York.

Please join me in congratulating these talented junior faculty for their achievements and wishing them continued success in their teaching and research at Boston University over the coming years.

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