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What’s your latest published/performed work? Privilege (a novel) What are your most recent awards? Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding New Script — Inside the Seed Are you connected to any creative writing communities you’d like to mention (UBC alums, film and theatre communities, etc)? Is there anything else about your writing career you’d like to […]

Catherine Young is a writer and performing artist whose work is infused with a keen sense of place. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize in prose and poetry and Best American Essays. She worked as a national park ranger, farmer, educator, and mother before completing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British […]

How did your time in the Creative Writing Program influence your work? Elaine’s time in the Creative Writing Program brought exposure to varied lyrical and experimental influences. Too, she was introduced to placing social and political thought into her work. Woo was first introduced to graphica at the University of British Columbia, received significant critique, and […]

What’s your latest published/performed work? Shelter, a novel (Random House) What are your most recent awards? New Face of Fiction, Random House Nomination for BC Book Prize Ethel Wilson award (Shelter) Named one of Waterstones 11 (Shelter) Nominated for Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award (Shelter) Is there anything else about your writing career you’d like […]

How did your time in the Creative Writing Program influence your work? My MFA at UBC helped me see I was a writer all along, even when I carried countless other roles within me. It was like being handed a tool to excavate those writing skills, polish them up and employ them creatively, in a […]