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Many graduates of the program are accomplished writers and professionals. Here is a small selection of our successful alumni!

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John Goldbach

John Goldbach is the author of The Devil and the Detective , a novel, and Selected Blackouts , a collection of stories. He lives in Montreal.

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Joanna Skibsrud

Johanna Skibsrud  is the author of the 2010 Giller Prize winning novel, The Sentimentalists , and two collections of poetry, Late Nights With Wild Cowboys (Gaspereau 2008), which was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, and I Do Not Think That I Could Love A Human Being (Gaspereau 2010), shortlisted for the Atlantic Poetry Prize. 

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Pasha Malla

Pasha Malla (MA 2005) has written for Esquire, The Globe and Mail, Walrus and McSweeney's , contributed to CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera , and twice had stories in the Journey Prize anthologies. He lives in Toronto where he is the founder of “Now Hear This!” a writers-in-schools program run through Descant Arts & Letters Foundation. 

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Lindsay Wilson

Lindsay Wilson's background is in theatre. She produced and directed Jesus Jello: The Miraculous Confection by Joanne Sarazen for the 2010 Montreal Fringe Festival. Puck Bunny , her first solo play, appeared at the 2009 Montreal and Toronto Fringe Festivals and was picked up by She Said Yes Theatre in Newfoundland as part of its 2010 Long-Distance Dramaturgy Project.

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Nigel Thomas

H. Nigel Thomas was born in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and has been living in Montreal since 1968. He is the author of eight books, including three novels: Spirits in the Dark , shortlisted for the 1994 Quebec Writers' Federation Hugh MacLennan Fiction Award, Behind the Face of Winter, and Return to Arcadia .

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Suzanne Buffam

Suzanne Buffam (MA 2003) is the author of one collection of poetry, Past Imperfect (House of Anansi), which won the 2006 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Award and was named one of the Books of the Year by The Globe and Mail . Her poems have appeared in various journals in Canada and the U.S., and she serves on the creative writing faculty at the University of Chicago.

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Larissa andrusyshyn.

Her first poetry collection  Mammoth  (DC Books, 2010) was shortlisted for the Quebec Writer's Federation First Book Prize and the Kobzar Literary Award. Her poems have been shortlisted for the Irving Layton award, the Malahat Review's Open Season Award, the  carte blanche  3Macs prize and Arc Magazine's Poem of the Year.  She was recently long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize. Larissa (MA 2010) represented the Stingers on the women's rugby team and was named to the 2006 QSSF all-star team and named Concordia's Athlete of the Week for Nov. 7, 2007. She facilitates creative writing workshops in Montreal, mostly for at-risk youth in protective custody. Her second collection is  Proof  (DC Books, 2014). 

Joshua Auerbach

His first book of poems, Radius of Light (DC Books), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. His poems, translations and reviews have been published widely, winning several prizes, including This Magazine's Great Literary Hunt, the Milton Acorn Prize, the Irving Layton Award, the Warren Keith Wright Award, the Ray Burrell Award, the Orion Prize, as well as commendation for the International Hanna Davoren Prize, the River Styx Prize, the Runes Poetry Prize and the Shaunt Basmajian Award. Auerbach (MA 2003) attended Harvard, the University of Grenoble, McGill and Concordia, and is Editor-in-Chief of Vallum. He also directs VSFAALE, a charity that promotes aesthetic awareness in Canada.

Oana Avasilichioaei

Avasilichioaei    (MA 2002) is a Montreal poet and translator from French and Romanian. Her books include feria: a poempark (Wolsak & Wynn, 2008), Abandon (Wolsak & Wynn, 2005) and a translation of Romanian poet Nichita Stănescu, Occupational Sickness (BuschekBooks, 2006). A collaborative work with Erín Moure, Expeditions of a Chimaera, will be published fall 2009 (BookThug). She has also created visual textworks for galleries in Montreal and Vancouver.

Todd Babiak

Babiak (MA English literature 1998) published  Choke Hold , a novel, in 2000. It won the Henry Kreisel award for best first book, was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize and was optioned for a feature film. Todd's second novel,  The Garneau Block , was longlisted for the Giller Prize and won the City of Edmonton Book Prize. It was published by  McClelland and Stewart .  The Book of Stanley , his third novel, was also published by  McClelland and Stewart . He was awarded a Praxis Screenwriting Fellowship for co-writing a feature film,  The Great One , set on the tragic day Wayne Gretzky announced he was leaving Canada to play for the Los Angeles Kings. Todd is a culture columnist at the Edmonton Journal and does not believe in western alienation.

Chris Banks

Banks (MA 1998) was raised in the Ontario communities of Bancroft, Sioux Lookout and Stayner, where his father served postings as a small-town police officer. He took his BA at the University of Guelph, a Master's in Creative Writing at Concordia and an education degree at Western. He currently works as an English and Creative Writing instructor at Bluevale Collegiate Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. His poetry has previously appeared in Carousel and The Antigonish Review. His first book,  Bonfires , was published in Fall 2003 by Nightwood Editions.  Bonfires  was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Jack Chalmers Poetry Award (2004) and shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award for Poetry (2004). His second book of poetry  The Cold Panes of Surfaces  (Nightwood Editions) was published in 2006.

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Concordia University, St. Paul Academic Catalog, 2023-2024 Edition

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Creative Writing (MFA)

The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is designed to develop skills in writing fiction and reading literature. By the end of the program, students will have completed a book-length manuscript of their own creative work. The courses are all offered 100% online. After completing this fully online MFA program, students will have achieved a level of sophistication in their writing that will allow them to pursue a number of career options.

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  3. Creative Writing (BA)

    Honours in English and Creative Writing (66 credits)* Major in Creative Writing (42 credits) Minor in Creative Writing (24 credits) *Honours is a highly concentrated program, ideal for students planning to continue to graduate studies. If you are interested in Honours, speak with your program advisor in your first year of study at Concordia.

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  5. Certificate in Creative Writing

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    Suzanne Buffam (MA 2003) is the author of one collection of poetry, Past Imperfect (House of Anansi), which won the 2006 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Award and was named one of the Books of the Year by The Globe and Mail.Her poems have appeared in various journals in Canada and the U.S., and she serves on the creative writing faculty at the University of Chicago.

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  21. Bachelor of Arts in English

    The average undergraduate student award is $16,603. Study language, literature, and writing in Concordia's Bachelor of Arts in English degree program. Concordia's English degree program allows you to choose from two concentrations: a focus on literary analysis and a focus on writing in multiple contexts for multiple purposes.

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