MFA or equivalent Professional experience
Prior Teaching Experience:
Successful teaching related to field at college or university level
Required competence, capability, skill and ability related to course content:
The University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA program seeks an instructor with the expertise in fiction that addresses questions of decolonial thought and race as they exist and are expressed in the structure, narrative arc, character, voice and geographies of writing. The successful applicant will demonstrate that they are highly regarded as a writer of fiction through nominations for or being a recipient of major literary awards and that they have addressed issues of decolonization in their fiction. This is a reading and writing intensive workshop that will require considerable time commitment to students outside of class hours, reading student work and corresponding with students, and consulting with students on an individual basis. A writer of fiction whose work is demonstrably held in high regard through nominations for or being a recipient of major literary awards.