• The Diploma in Creative Writing at the Memorial University of Newfoundland is a 1-year program.
  • This program is offered on a full-time basis.
  • The program aims to develop students' skills in writing in a variety of genres conventionally described as creative such as fiction, poetry, drama, and creative non-fiction.
  • It will also offer students the opportunity to take, as options, courses that provide a background in contemporary literature in these genres.
  • The overall aim of the program is to help them produce work that merits publication.
  • The focus of the creative writing courses will be on the composition, critiquing, and editing of their own work, and, in both the creative writing and contemporary literature courses, on analyzing examples of excellent contemporary writing.
  • The student-faculty ratio of this college is 16:1.
  • The acceptance rate of the Memorial University of Newfoundland is 67%.