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MFA’s Reading Series ‘Locution’ hosts Indigenous Evening with Alicia Elliott and Katherena Vermette

Locution is a monthly reading series hosted by the MFA Creative Writing Program. This month’s event was a special  Indigenous edition and welcomed amazing guest readers such as Katherena Vermette and Alicia Elliott. The host for the night was none other than Carleigh Baker. Other wonderfully talented readers included Molly Cross-Blanchard, Jessica Johns, Kavelina Torres […]

Kim Fu: The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

Kim Fu: The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp—and the night that will shape their lives for decades to come.

Hiromi Goto Visits UBC Creative Writing Department

  Hiromi Goto is a writer of poetry and fiction (full bio here) who visited our students here at the UBC Creative Writing Department in January. She attended student workshops and gave a process-based lecture to our undergraduates that explored elements of poetry such as line break vs. prose poem, structure/form, rhyme, homonyms, metaphor, cadence, creativity/cliché, […]

Showrunners on Campus:   Tara Armstrong (CRWR BFA )  and Jennica Harper (CRWR MFA)

Showrunners on campus:   Tara Armstrong (CRWR BFA ) Mary Kills People creator / writer / executive producer,  and Jennica Harper (CRWR MFA), Cardinal  co-executive producer / writer, take a meeting at UBC Creative Writing last November. Both have returning series that have premiered this month. You can watch Mary Kills People on Wednesday 8 ET/PT on […]

Amber Dawn: Sodom Road Exit

Amber Dawn: Sodom Road Exit

The second novel by Lambda Literary Award Winner Amber Dawn: at once a compelling family melodrama and a lesbian supernatural thriller.