The Major in Creative Writing at UTSC offers students the opportunity to deepen their development as literary artists and to gain a comprehensive historical and critical understanding of literary and creative practice. Benefiting from workshop-based classes and feedback from award-winning faculty and visiting writers as well as from peer review, students will produce original work in a range of genres, encompassing poetry, fiction, non-fiction, screenwriting, and comics. Students will graduate with the confidence and tools with which to continue developing as writers. They will also emerge from this program with the practical knowledge and experience to professionalize their creative skills into fields as diverse as publishing, editing, communications, public relations, marketing, and advertising.