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Creative Writing
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Creative Writing
Program snapshot
Top 7 reasons to study Creative Writing at Dalhousie:
- Take creative writing as part of a double major or combined honours—or you can take a prose or poetry workshop as an elective, just for fun.
- Learn about the writer's craft by reading and critiquing your peers’ work—while getting feedback on your own writing.
- Choose from workshops in poetry, fiction, narrative non-fiction, and playwriting.
- Develop a range of useful skills: writing, speaking, lateral thinking—and diplomacy, as you find the best way to critique your classmates’ work.
- All our instructors are published poets, dramatists, journalists, short-story writers or novelists who can offer their personal insights into the writing process.
- Feel it all through words—explore your emotions and your ability to empathize with others.
- Get essential job skills that apply to any position requiring creative thinking—from marketing to journalism to Web-based industries.
What will I learn?
Whether you prefer poetry, prose, playwriting, or narrative non-fiction, the workshop classes in Dal's creative writing program will help you discover and develop your writing “voice.”
What can I do?
Magazine features writer. Playwright. Film script writer. Novelist. Web writer. The communication skills you learn in our creative writing classes will ready you for a variety of careers. You might even discover a related career interest, like Jenna Harvie did.
