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Mark Leiren-Young, MFA 2018
What’s your latest published/performed work? Bar Mitzvah Boy – Playwrights Canada Press What are your most recent awards? 2017 Writer’s Guild of Canada award for “best documentary” The Hundred-Year-Old Whale” Mark’s Website: www.leiren-young.com Follow Mark on Twitter Follow Mark on Instagram
Paula Jane Remlinger, MFA 2013
I graduated from the MFA program in 2013. I recently sent in my alumni profile. I also wanted to let you know that my book, This Hole Called January, just won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry. Announcement was made June 18, 2020.
Brooke Carter, MFA 2011
How did your time in the Creative Writing Program influence your work? I produced a lot of work in Susan Juby’s Writing for Children class during my MFA, and many of those beginning pieces have turned into book-length works that have gone on to be published novels for youth. What’s your latest published/performed work? THE […]
Shayne Morrow, MFA 1988
How did your time in the Creative Writing Program influence your work? My biggest influence was Bob Harlow, who, early on, encouraged me to focus on non-fiction. (I didn’t for a long time). What’s your latest published/performed work? The Bulldog and the Helix – DNA and the pursuit of justice in a frontier town Is […]
Tom Neuhoff, MFA 1984
What’s your latest published/performed work? Humor column at Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Press. How did your time in the Creative Writing Program influence your work? I learned that Canadian beer is better than anything we have in America. Is there anything else about your writing career you’d like to share? I would jump through fire to […]
Aaron Chan, BFA 2014
Aaron Chan is a musician, filmmaker, and writer born and raised on unceded Coast Salish territories (Vancouver). He holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and his writing has been published in literary magazines and publications including Plenitude, filling Station, Polychrome Ink, and Xtra. His piece “A Case of Jeff” […]
Meg Stainsby, MFA 2015
How did your time in the Creative Writing Program influence your work? It deepened my appreciation for the need for precise and concrete detail It compelled me to try poetry (finally!) — which then led me to swift success in terms of winning the first poetry contest I’ve ever entered. Lesson learn — write fearward! […]
Sonal Champsee, MFA 2017
Sonal Champsee’s short fiction and essays have been published by magazines such as The New Quarterly, Ricepaper, and Literary Mama. She was a finalist for the Writer’s Union of Canada’s 2017 Emerging Writers Short Prose contest, and has had a play produced by Prathidhwani Drama Wing in Seattle. Sonal holds an MFA in Creative Writing from […]
Marie Powell, MFA 2011
Marie Powell is the author of more than 40 published children’s books, including the young adult fantasy Last of the Gifted: Spirit Sight (Summer 2020) and Water Sight (Fall 2020). She holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Her award-winning short stories and poetry appear in such literary magazines […]
John Mavin, MFA 2010
John Mavin has taught creative writing at Capilano University, Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, with New Shoots (through the Vancouver School Board), and at the Learning Exchange in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A past nominee for both the Aurora Award and the Journey Prize, his short fiction has been translated, studied, and published […]