CWMFA Features

While our ever-growing 200+ alum makes it impossible to keep track of all of the MFA community achievements, here are some of the highlights from the last year or so. Many congratulations to those who’ve published books throughout the last half of 2023 and into 2024.

Learn more and order books directly through the links provided in this newsletter, in the author’s names.

We’ve had a fabulous first year with Canisia Lubrin at the helm of the MFA program and Catherine Bush continues to supervise MFA students and teach fiction for us and the many writers clamoring into the new Creative Writing undergraduate program at the University of Guelph.

We asked poetry alumni David Bradford, Claire Caldwell, and Laurie D. Graham—who've all published recent books—to share literature & media inspiring them this spring...

We invited poetry alumni Nancy Jo Cullen, Andrew Faulkner, Liz Howard, and Sheniz Janmohamed to share elements of craft and process from their most recent books...

Congratulations to Guelph CW MFA alumni David Bradford and Liz Howard on being named finalists for this year’s prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize!

Check out some annual highlights and news from the CW MFA community...

Join us October 30 at 12pm at the Toronto International Festival of Authors.

Open Book hosts a compelling conversation between two recent Creative Writing grads.

CW MFA Alumna Canisia Lubrin's The Dyzgraphxst has won this year's Griffin Poetry Prize.