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Creative Writing

OCAD University's Creative Writing program is a hands-on, studio-based program about writing as artistic creation. Unlike other creative writing programs, students can blend writing with art and design studio classes at Canada’s biggest art and design university.
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Emaan Mahboob
Emaan Mahboob

Creative Writing

Emaan Mahboob

“Evermore is born out of my personal qualms with fate and love. They are two endless forces that I have always thought about, between heartbreaks and dreams that I longed for so viscerally that felt entirely out of reach. Are our lives planned prior... More

Gus Lederman
Gus Lederman

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Creative Writing

Gus Lederman aka. grass

“"mycomimic" is a play about looking to mycelium networks to build more interconnected communities. Lured in by a chorus of worms, the human character, HOST, travels into the mycelium to shed their human form, decompose and join the collective... More

Olivia Eyre
Olivia Eyre

Creative Writing

Olivia Eyre

“She is a poet and maker whose work explores themes of faith, girlhood, and intersectionality. ”

Maximus Andrew
Maximus Andrew

Creative Writing

Maximus Andrew

“My exhibition will be a desk before a decorated wall section, plastered with black construction paper under glow in the dark star stickers and a moon made to resemble the dream city of Somnopolis. The work itself will be in multiple physical... More

Sarah Berry
Sarah Berry

Creative Writing

Sarah Berry

“As the recently reanimated citizens of Riverview begin to turn feral, Quinn, a pessimistic teenager, must decide what’s most important—protecting her living loved ones, or reviving her deceased mother…whose ghost follows her around wherever she... More

Julianna Semeniuk
Julianna Semeniuk

Creative Writing

Julianna Semeniuk aka. Lia

“My major project for GradEx 110 is an ode to the city that I was born and raised in. It zooms in on commercialism and the history of malls, which are core spaces of togetherness in most cases. It is the result of the marriage of my two areas of... More

Anna Yang
Anna Yang

Creative Writing

Anna Yang

“LOOK BACK — on the pieces of yourself left in other people, on the love you lost but still feel. More

Maia Della Penna
Maia Della Penna

Creative Writing

Maia Della Penna aka. Maia Della Penna

“Skinner Logline: More

Cameron Chiovitti
Cameron Chiovitti

Creative Writing

Cameron Chiovitti

“"I began writing these poems as a way to grapple with the realization that I would always be learning and unlearning what it means to coexist with mental illness." More

Kate Duggan
Kate Duggan

Creative Writing

Kate Duggan

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