The Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs is a new national organization, established in 2010. Their goals and mission parallel those of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, and we are looking forward to developing partnerships with them.
The CCWWP seeks to:
- Provide a forum in which Creative Writers and those teaching Creative Writing can meet to discuss writing and how best to teach it.
- Provide a useful national network of individuals with interest and expertise in creative writing and the teaching of creative writing.
- Lobby on behalf of Canadian Creative Writing, Teachers of Creative Writings.
- Promote creative writing and Canadian writing, especially within the academic world.
- Provide up-to-date news related to creative writing and its instruction in this country.
- Provide support and pedagogical advice for those teaching creative writing.
- Generate a conference at which members can meet, exchange information, express concerns and in general stay abreast of the flow of information pertaining to Creative Writing in Canada.
Their website is available here and includes information about a forthcoming conference in Toronto, 2012.