Launched in 2004, the MA in English in the Field of Creative Writing is an elite, two-year academic graduate program located in the vibrant intellectual and creative milieu of Canada’s leading university. Here, promising young writers have the opportunity to be mentored by faculty who are among our nation’s most prominent writers and literary scholars. Upon graduation, students will have completed a publishable work. What is truly unique about the program is that it is designed both to prepare participants for careers as professional writers and to qualify academically those wishing to pursue further graduate studies.

The MA in English in the Field of Creative Writing program is solidifying its position as an exceptional and unique program in Canada that produces stellar writers and scholars. For this reason, we have set up the Emerging Writers Scholarship Fund. This fund will allow gifted young poets, fiction writers and playwrights to focus their energies on their writing, and to take full advantage of U of T’s intellectual resources.

Graduates are already earning a national and international profile on the strength and originality of their literary work.

	Laura Boudreau (MA 2008) secured a publishing contract for her short story collection, Suitable Precautions, with Biblioasis Press. Her short story "The Dead Dad Game" has been selected to appear in The Journey Prize Stories 22, and her short story "Poses" will appear in 10: Best Canadian Stories.
	Kasia Juno (current student) won the Quebec Writer’s Federation prize for her short story “The Fox,” which can be found in Maisonneuve magazine, and will be published in an upcoming anthology from Véhicule Press. In addition to winning the Irving Layton Award for Fiction, Kasia received a travel grant from the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements Program to conduct her thesis research in South Africa.
	Jonathan Chan Simpson (MA 2010) is currently an editorial intern at The Walrus, and his work is forthcoming in Ricepaper Magazine. He is writing his first novel, entitled Chinkstar.
	Andrew MacDonald's stories and reviews have been published in a variety of places like The Fiddlehead, Event, and Broken Pencil. He won the inaugural Adam Penn Gilders Award, co-won the Hart House Review literary contest, and is a finalist for the prestigious $10,000 Journey Prize for his story "Eat Fist!" Andrew was also recently nominated for a Western Magazine Award for Fiction.
	Daniel Scott Tysdal (MA 2008) has won three awards for his first book of poetry, Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, including the ReLit Award and the Saskatchewan Book Award for Best Book of Poetry. His second book of poetry, The Mourner's Book of Albums, is forthcoming.
	Lauren Kirshner's (MA 2007) debut novel Where We Have to Go (McClelland & Stewart) was called "evocative and compelling” by Quill and Quire and is forthcoming in Dutch and German translation. Mentored by Margaret Atwood, Lauren was recently named "Toronto’s Best Emerging Author" by NOW magazine.
	Rebecca Rosenblum’s (MA 2007) short fiction has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, the National Magazine Award and the Danuta Gleed Award. Her first collection of stories, Once, won the Metcalf-Rooke Award and was one of Quill and Quire’s 15 Books That Mattered in 2008. Her second collection, The Big Dream, is forthcoming from Biblioasis.
	Jonathan Garfinkle (MA 2006) secured both Canadian (Penguin 2007) and U.S. (W.W. Norton & Co. 2008) publishing contracts for his memoir, Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide.
	Sandra Huber (MA 2006) is currently holding a residency with Swiss Artists-in-Labs , where she is collaborating on a poetry project with scientists who study sleep. She’s published in various literary journals, performed at festivals in Europe and Canada and curates the online journal Dear Sir.

• To learn more about this program, contact Leslie McCarley at 416-946-5192 or leslie.mccarley@utoronto.ca.