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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.
Every year, our fantastic BFA and MFA alumni continue to publish wonderful books, and Spring 2018 is no exception. The list of titles recently published or forthcoming includes thrillers, poetry collections, the satirical and the elegiac. Read them all and find out what our graduates are producing.
We’re pleased to announce the fifth annual HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction. This prize, a collaboration between UBC Creative Writing, HarperCollinsPublishersLtd and the Cooke Agency, offers agency representation and a publishing contract to the winning novel. It is open to all UBC Creative Writing students and alumni.
Previous winners are:
2013 – Karim Alrawi, for Book of Sands
2014 – Chelsea Bolan, for In the Place of Silence (published as The Good Sister)
2015 – Natalie Morrill, for At the Top of the Wall, Alight (published as The Ghost Keeper)
2016 – Ellen Keith, for The Dutch Wife
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.