Humber School for Writers

Over 300 graduates of our distinguished school have gone on to publish books. We offer a range of writing and publishing programs including an intensive summer workshop, a fully online graduate certificate for those who want to work on the business side of the book industry, and a project-based writing mentorship program.

Creative Writing Graduate Certificate

For students working on book-length projects.

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Summer Workshop in Creative Writing

A week-long intensive workshop at Humber's beautiful Lakeshore Campus.

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Bachelor of Creative and Professional Writing

The Honours Bachelor of Creative and Professional Writing helps you transform your passion for writing into a fulfilling career.

TIFA x Humber School for Writers Master Class Series

A series of virtual master classes during the Toronto International Festival of Authors.

Creative Book Publishing Graduate Certificate

Turn your love of books into a career in publishing with our intensive, fully online program.

Television Writing and Producing Graduate Certificate

This program prepares you to work in the writers’ rooms of major television programs and in television production offices as a creative producer.

Love & Defiance Podcast

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This is the Humber School for Writers Love & Defiance podcast. I’m David Bezmozgis, creative director of the Humber School for Writers. The Love & Defiance podcast features Humber students and graduates who’ve lived interesting or extraordinary lives and who have brought those experiences into their writing.

Season 4 Episode 4 - Sumaiya Matin

In today’s episode I’ll be speaking with Sumaya Matin who worked on her memoir with Shyam Selvadurai. Titled The Shaytan Bride, it was published in 2021 by Dundurn Press and it is an account of Sumaiya’s immigration to Canada from Bangladesh as a young girl, her attempts to reconcile her Muslim faith with secular Canadian society and the patriarchal strictures placed on Muslim girls and women from within their own community which culminates, for Sumaiya, in an attempted forced marriage.

This season of Love and Defiance is written and produced by David Bezmozgis, and produced and edited by Evan Gravelle.

Thanks for listening. We’ll be back next year with more students and more remarkable stories from the Humber School for Writers.

Season 4 Episode 3 - Craig Shreve

In this episode, I speak with Craig Shreve about his novel The African Samurai, a fictionalized account of the tragic and heroic life of Yasuke, an African slave and warrior who became the first non-Japanese samurai.

This season of Love and Defiance is written and produced by David Bezmozgis, and produced and edited by Evan Gravelle.