The KPU Creative Writing Department offers students a community of creativity in which writers discover a purposeful craft and explore the gifts of the imagination. We offer award-winning faculty, small class sizes, and a rigorous approach to the craft of writing.
Teaching in the Creative Writing Department is based on foundational principles of mentorship, humility, discovery, purposefulness, and learner autonomy. Faculty demonstrate an authentic spirit of inquiry intended as a model for learners. In turn, learners engage with a teaching environment that is collaborative, innovative, creative, and respectful. We embrace emerging and experimental teaching methods and research-driven pedagogy in support of a dynamic educational community that is innovative, interdisciplinary, and socially and culturally responsible. In the Creative Writing Department, learner engagement extends beyond the classroom to encompass community and industry partners and peers
KPU Creative Writing is a home for those who love community, creativity and imagination. Our program offers award-winning faculty, small class sizes, and a rigorous approach to the discipline of writing. The department is known for a strong sense of community which supports emerging writers to discover their voice, develop their craft and express their vision.
Our in-person courses are offered at Surrey, Langley, and Richmond campuses and introduction courses are also available online. In the first year, learners are given a foundation in the crafts of fiction, poetry and writing for new media. As writers advance through the program they will begin to work on selected projects in these genres as well as scriptwriting. By the third and fourth year, writers begin to work toward publication/production by way of advanced, genre-specific and special topics courses such as Speculative Fiction, Web Series, Young Adult Fiction and Advanced Writer’s Studio.
Learning in the KPU Creative Writing Department is based on the principle of mentorship. We embrace an environment that is collaborative, creative and respectful. Our teaching methods support an innovative, interdisciplinary classroom experience that facilitates critical awareness, cultural sensitivity, social responsibility, civic engagement, and global citizenship. Our learning environment encourages lifelong learning.
In the KPU Creative Writing Department, learner engagement extends beyond the classroom to encompass relationships with community and industry partners and peers. Learners are encouraged to engage in the broader literary community through building relationships with our visiting authors, publishing and festival partners, and producing and attending writing and performance events