Tara Gereaux, MFA 2001
What’s your latest published/performed work? Tara’s first teen novella, Size of a Fist, was published in 2015 and nominated for two 2016 Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her debut novel, Saltus, is forthcoming from Nightwood Editions in spring 2021. What are your most recent awards? Her writing has been published in several Canadian literary magazines, and won […]
Suzanne Kamata, MFA 2016
American Suzanne Kamata lives in the prefecture of Tokushima in Japan. She is the author of the novels Losing Kei, Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible, and Screaming Divas, as well as the short story collection The Beautiful One Has Come. She has also edited three anthologies including Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers […]
Gillian Wigmore, MFA 2015
Gillian Wigmore is the author of three books of poems, including Orient, published by Brick Books, Dirt of Ages, published by Nightwood Editions, and soft geography, published by Caitlin Press, which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay award and won the 2008 Relit award. She has also written a novella, Grayling, published by MotherTongue Publishing […]
Jordan Hall, MFA 2015
Jordan Hall is an emerging artist whose work has been dubbed “stellar, insightful”by Plank Magazine, “thoughtful” by CBC Radio, and “vivid, memorable” by NOW. Her first full-length play, Kayak, won Samuel French’s 2010 Canadian Playwrights Competition, and has been produced to critical acclaim across North America. An Associate at Playwrights Theatre Centre from 2010-2013, she […]
Featured Interview: Betty Jane Hegerat
Betty Jane Hegerat is the author of three novels, a collection of short stories, and a book of creative non-fiction. She graduated from the MFA Creative Writing Low-Residency Program. Hi, I’m Betty Jane Hegerat. I applied to the UBC Creative Writing program with the particular intention of exploring the possibilities of creative non-fiction. I had […]
Rob Taylor, MFA 2016
Rob Taylor is the author of two poetry collections, The News (Gaspereau Press, 2016) and The Other Side of Ourselves (Cormorant Books, 2011). His poems, short stories and essays have been published in over fifty journals and anthologies, including The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Geist and In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry. […]
Cecilia Araneda, MFA
Cecilia Araneda has been working as a filmmaker, media art curator and arts administrator for close to two decades. As an independent filmmaker, her works have been selected for Visions du Réel, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, the Images Festival and Ann Arbor Festival, among others, and have been featured in a retrospective screening at the […]
Betty Jane Hegerat, MFA 2008
Betty Jane Hegerat is the author of three novels, a collection of short stories, and a book of creative non-fiction: Running Toward Home (NeWest Press 2006), A Crack in the Wall (Oolichan Books 2008) and most recent of her books, Delivery (Oolichan Books 2009), The Boy (Oolichan Books 2011), and Odd One Out,(Oolichan Books 2016) […]
Chelsea Rooney, MFA 2012
Chelsea Rooney is an author and teacher living in Vancouver. Her debut novel Pedal was published in 2014 by Caitlin Press and was nominated for the 2015 Amazon First Novel Award and the 2015 ReLit Novel Award. She hosts a monthly episode of The Storytelling Show on Vancouver Co-op Radio. www.chelsearooney.com PEDAL “Julia Hoop, […]
Featured Interview: Laura Trunkey
Laura Trunkey’s writing has been published in journals and magazines across Canada. Her short fiction has been anthologized in the bestselling collection, Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow and her non-fiction has been anthologized in Hidden Lives. The Incredibly Ordinary Danny Chandelier, Laura’s children’s novel, was a starred selection in the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s […]