CREATIVE WRITING COURSES

Humber College
Creative Writing – Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Poetry

Humber’s Creative Writing – Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Poetry graduate certificate program helps you improve your writing from the comfort of home. You’ll work one-on-one with a professional writer-mentor to improve your short stories, poems, memoir, or novel-in-progress, learning how to develop plot, character, dialogue, style and more through feedback on your own manuscript. The program is intended for those working on book-length projects, and you’ll have the satisfaction of completing a large body of work which may include all or parts of a novel or memoir, a volume of short stories, or a book of poetry.

SHORT STORY WRITING 1
George Brown College
St. James Campus, 200 King Street East, Toronto

Short Story Writing 1 is a structured but fun course that teaches the fundamentals of fiction and gently guides you through the process of writing a short story. Learn to write characters, action and setting and helps you discover the secrets to creating a great plot.

SHORT STORY WRITING 2
George Brown College
St. James Campus, 200 King Street East, Toronto

Short Story Writing 2 helps you build on your fundamental story-writing knowledge. Learn to take your work to the next level through goal setting and achievement. Support from the teacher in the form of ongoing critiques helps you to polish your writing for publication. Submit new material for critique and resubmit material that has been rewritten.

Professor Evaluation Comments from students of Richard Scarsbrook’s course,
“Creating Short Stories 1” at George Brown College, Toronto, 2009:

“He is obviously an expert author. Everyone’s work improves greatly under his teaching.”

“Richard is very quick at providing tangible/useful/insightful input … He has a genuine passion.”

“He provided great examples to support all of his suggestions. I loved his energy. One of the best I have had in a while.”

“He was extremely helpful and knowledgable. Also a very nice guy.”

“How efficient and experienced he is at evaluating fiction.”