The University of New Brunswick based in Fredericton, Saint John offers fully funded PhD in creative writing. The department boasts talented practitioners and instructors in all major genres of creative writing–fiction, poetry, playwriting, and screenwriting–as well as expertise in non-fiction and travel writing. The Ph.D. program is designed to give students the critical skills to teach literature and writing at the college or university levels. Ph.D. students at UNB are eligible to compete for $19,420 of assistantship funding per year for four years (2019-2020), providing academic progress is satisfactory.