This seminar/workshop course introduces Creative Writing students to the knowledge and practical skills necessary to navigate careers as authors of poetry and literary prose in the Canadian publishing industry.
Course content is divided equally between seminars and workshops. Seminars, which include lectures, guest speakers and field trips, inform students on the career practices of working writers, such as grant applications, graduate programs, literary agents, public readings, publishing, residencies, contracts, copyright, teaching opportunities, and research
methodologies. In instructor-guided workshops, students hone their writing for publication and discuss how to prepare their manuscripts for submission to publishers, journals, magazines, awards, and contests. Students complete the class well versed in the skills and knowledge to become working poets, novelists and creative nonfiction writers in Canada.