Congratulations to alumna Michelle Barker, whose novel for young adults launches today. This searing novel about defiance, courage, and determination takes readers into the chilling world of a society ruled by autocratic despots, where nothing is what it seems.
Michelle Barker’s House of One Thousand Eyes
The Cascadia Project
Creative Writing professor Bryan Wade, masters students, and emerging playwrights combine forces to put on a festival of new plays, from September 26th to October 7th, 2018 at Studio 1398 on Granville Island.
The festival has been programed into a White, Blue, and Green night, each featuring two plays, over the course of the two-week run at Studio 1398.
The final October 7th performance of Eight Ways to Fate and All will be a benefit show, with all proceeds going towards three DTES charitable programs: PHS Community Services Society, Sheway and VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation and the Union Gospel Mission.
Tickets range from $15-30 and can be bought through Brown Paper Tickets ( cascadiaproject.brownpapertickets.com ) or in person at the door. For more information about the festival and the artists involved, please visit thecascadiaproject.com . For media inquiries please email: cascadiaproject2018@gmail.com.
Read more: Continue reading “The Cascadia Project”
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions: Indigenous Writing & Creative Non-Fiction
The Creative Writing Program is now accepting applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor Positions, commencing July 1, 2019. We are inviting applicants for an Assistant Professor: Indigenous Creative Writing, and for an Assistant Professor in Creative Non-Fiction (Rogers Chair). See our opportunities page for more information.
Yugumalleq: A film by MFA Candidate Kavelina Torres
Congratulations to MFA Candidate Kavelina Torres, whose short film Yugumalleq / Shades of Life will air in United States Indian Country and on PBS stations across the US on August 5th, 2018 at 4:30 pm PST (7:30 pm EST).
Kavelina Torres
Kavelina is a Sundance Native Film and an Alaska Native Playwright’s Program alumna. Her film, Yugumalleq, resides with First Nations Experience (FNX) for PBS television programming. Her play, Something in The Living Room, debuted in April 2018 Vancouver, BC, to raise funds for safe injection sites.
