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Congratulations to Leah Mol, MFA Alumna, who’s this year’s winner of the $6000 CBC Short Story prize for her story Lipstick Day, a story about teens’ sexual behaviour and peer pressure..
http://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/leah-mol-wins-the-2018-cbc-short-story-prize-1.4616991
Congratulations to our graduating MFA and BFA students. Graduation was held on a lovely May Wednesday last week, and we’re happy to share some photos of faculty and students, as well as our honorary doctorate holder, Eden Robinson.
Eden Robinson and Prof. Keith Maillard
MFA Rachel Jansen and family
We’re delighted that our MFA Alumna Eden Robinson, the internationally acclaimed Haisla and Heiltsuk novelist and short story writer, will be receiving an honorary doctoral degree today from UBC to recognize her substantial literary contributions.
Our colleagues at the Faculty of Arts interviewed her recently about her literary accomplishments.
UBC Creative Writing graduate Ellen Keith (MFA ’16) recently published her debut novel The Dutch Wife – a historical fiction work that she completed during the MFA Optional Residency program. The book, which won the HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, reached #1 on the Globe & Mail Canadian Fiction Bestseller List.
Ellen talks with UBC Arts about her studies at UBC and her writing.
We're delighted to present a series of 3 non-credit novel writing courses with Annabel Lyon and Nancy Lee, on the edX online learning platform.