IN THE course of more than forty years of teaching I have often been asked, “When you teach creative writing, what do you teach?” Books dealing with technique have their function, no doubt, in a ...

I started teaching creative writing in 2017, and all this while I’ve been grappling with something that, until now, I couldn’t quite name. I felt it when I opened a textbook that purported to teach me ...

The year is 2003. I am a newly minted assistant professor recruited primarily to teach communicative English to undergraduate techie students and to humanise them via that odd elective course in ...

College Teaching, Vol. 63, No. 4 (October-December 2015), pp. 153-161 (9 pages) Incorporating creative writing exercises in history courses can heighten students' critical reading and analytical ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

One of America’s greatest living writers also happens to be one of the country’s longest-running teachers of creative writing. I’m talking about Joyce Carol Oates, author of more than 50 novels, whose ...

Two award-winning Indigenous writers have joined the University of Toronto Scarborough’s department of English. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Randy Lundy joined as assistant professors, teaching stream, ...

The Teaching Creative Writing Minor is a cross-disciplinary 16- credit minor for students from across the Institute. In addition to the required teaching courses, students will choose from elective ...

Following through on last week’s piece about the challenges faced by creative writers trying to make a living in this country, let me share some further thoughts on that topic that I wove into my ...

Journey through Musical Storyland, where children’s favourite fairy tales and traditional folktales are re-imagined with magical music performed by musicians of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.