M.A. in Creative Writing
The Department of English offers a Masters degree in Creative Writing. The MA in Creative Writing is a non-terminal degree. After course work in both academic and creative writing seminars, students write a thesis in the genre of their choice (poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction). Award-winning faculty offer small classes, personal supervision and professional training. A extra benefit to studying creative writing at the University of Regina is that students can participate in a vibrant local writing community that includes numerous reading series and programs offered by the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, the oldest and most established writers' guild in Canada.
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How to Apply
Please follow M.A. in English application procedure guidelines.
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Faculty Bios
Jes Battis writes in the areas of fantasy and science fiction. He is the author of the ongoing Occult Special Investigator series with Penguin-USA, which combines forensic research with urban fantasy. He has also published poetry in The Capilano Review and the Saskatchewan Review. He teaches creative writing classes in the genres of fantasy/sf, horror, romance, and experimental fiction. He is currently working on a new series set in an alternate eighteenth-century London.
Gerald Hill has published five books of poetry-the third of which, Getting to Know You, won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry in 2004-and one nonfiction work, Their Names Live On: Remembering Saskatchewan’s Fallen in World War II (with Doug Chisholm). His most recent book, 14 Tractors, won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry in 2009. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Luther College, University of Regina, and he blogs at poetshoes.blogspot.com.
Medrie Purdham is a Regina poet currently working on a collection entitled Miniatures. Her poety has been published in The Malahat Review, Grain, The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Matrix, The New Quarterly and is forthcoming in Contemporary Verse 2. Her academic interests include Canadian literature and modern drama, and she is a dedicated prosodist.
Andrew Stubbs has published two collections of poetry, Endgames (Thistledown 2010) and White Light Primitive (Hagios 2009). He has co-edited The Other Harmony: The Collected Poetry of Eli Mandel (CPRC 2000), and written a full-length study of Mandel's poetry and poetics, Myth Origins Magic (Turnstone Press/CFH 1993). His poems, as well as articles on and reviews of writers and writing, have appeared in a number of journals. His essay collection, Rhetoric, Uncertainty, and the University as Text, an examination of writing programs at various Canadian and American universities, was published by CPRC in 2007.
Michael Trussler has published short fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. Encounters, a collection of short stories, won both the Saskatchewan Book of the Year and City of Regina Award in 2006. A collection of poetry, Accidental Animals, was short-listed for the same awards in 2007. His most recent work is an experimental Chapbook, A Homemade Life, that combines photographic images with text. His work has appeared in two anthologies and in numerous North American journals.
Kathleen Wall is the author of two books of poetry, Without Benefit of Words (Turnstone, 1991) and Time’s Body (Hagios 2005), as well as a book of literary criticism, The Callisto Myth from Ovid to Atwood (McGill Queens 1988). She is co-author and co-editor of Patterns for a Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader (McGraw Hill 2009). Her novel, Blue Duets, published by Brindle & Glass, will come out in the fall of 2010.
In 1995, the manuscript that would become Time’s Body won a Major Manuscript Award from the Saskatchewan Writers Guild; the collection of poems was subsequently shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Book Award and a ReLit Award. In 2001, she won the University’s Award for Teaching.
“I love teaching, whether it’s Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Beatles lyrics, or creative writing. Teaching is one of the most exciting ways of having a conversation with the culture around us, both past and present. Teaching is ‘critical’ in both senses of the word: it offers a critique, certainly, but it is also crucial to the health and vigour of our society. Teaching creative writing allows me, through the fresh voices of my students, to speak to and about the society of the future.”
She is working on a book-length study of Virginia Woolf and on a second novel, whose working title is Soul Weather.
