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Get your tickets for the 2025 Brave New Play Rites Festival

 
For the 39th year in a row, the Bryan Wade Brave New Play Rites Festival (BNPR), produced by the UBC School of Creative Writing, will take place at the Dorothy Somerset Studio at UBC in Vancouver from March 11 to March 15 at 7:00 pm.

Zac Hug found his calling in writing Hallmark rom-coms—and so can you

 
With Valentine’s Day approaching, romance is in the air—and on the page. Zac Hug is a screenwriter who has built a career crafting romantic comedies that bring comfort, humour and heart to audiences. We spoke with Hug about his work with Hallmark, and how he is helping aspiring writers shape their own love stories for the screen with a new, non-credit online course.

Six books by UBC Arts scholars to read for Black History Month and beyond

 
February is Black History Month in Canada. Here are six books to read by Black scholars in the Faculty of Arts that explore crucial themes of Black history, identity and resistance. This list includes books from professors Nalo Hopkinson and Whitney French of Creative Writing.
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The Bryan Wade Brave New Play Rites Festival runs March 11 to March 15, 2025

 
March 11, 2025 - March 15, 2025
7:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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place Dorothy Somerset Studio

A Community Reading of Pat Lowther’s “A Stone Diary”

 
April 2, 2025
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
place Green College
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