Featured Interview: Brent van Staalduinen
Brent is the writer of Saints Unexpected, his work has appeared in Event, The Puritan , Prairie Fire and others.He is a graduate of the Humber School of Writers and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Find him online at www.brentvans.com. (Listen to Brent read from Saints Unexpected) Could you tell us a […]
Emily Pohl-Weary, MFA 2010
Emily Pohl-Weary is an award-winning author, editor, and creative writing instructor. Her latest books are Ghost Sick, a collection of poetry about tragedy and resilience in downtown Toronto, and Not Your Ordinary Wolf Girl, a young adult fantasy novel. Her previous books include a Hugo Award-winning biography, a ghost love story, a female superhero anthology, […]
Brent van Staalduinen, MFA 2015
Brent van Staalduinen is an award-winning novelist and story writer from Hamilton, Ontario, and the author of the novels UNTHINKABLE, NOTHING BUT LIFE, BOY, and SAINTS, UNEXPECTED, as well as the short story collection CUT ROAD. He has been nominated for a White Pine Award, won the Kerry Schooley Book Award and Bristol Short Story […]
Andrew Gray, MFA 1996
Andrew Gray is the author of a collection of short fiction, Small Accidents, which was shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Award at the BC Book Prizes and an IPPY Independent Publisher’s award in the US. He’s the co-author of the novella The Ghost Line (Tor.com). His speculative fiction has been published in magazines including Malahat […]
Christine Leclerc, MFA 2010
Leclerc is an editor of The Enpipe Line (Creekstone Press, 2012) and portfolio milieu (milieu press, 2004). She is also the author of Oilywood (Nomados Editions, 2013; bpNichol Chapbook Award, 2014) and Counterfeit (CUE, 2008). Leclerc holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. christineleclerc.com
Rhett Davis, MFA 2015
Rhett is a writer, academic and consultant from Geelong, Australia. After graduating from the MFA in 2015, he returned home and completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Deakin University in 2020. The novel he wrote for his PhD won the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and will be published by […]
Alison Cobra, MFA 2014
Not a real snake. You can find Alison on Twitter  Alison graduated from the BFA program in 2010 and the MFA program in 2014.
Christopher Evans, MFA 2017
Christopher lives in Vancouver, BC, where he completed his BFA in Creative Writing at UBC in 2014, and is a current MFA candidate. His fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in print and online magazines in Canada, Australia, Ireland, South Africa, the UK, and the USA. His stage play Drifting was produced for the 2014 Brave […]
Adrick Brock, MFA 2015
Adrick Brock is a writer from Toronto, Ontario. His fiction has appeared in The New Quarterly, EVENT, The Malahat Review, Riddle Fence, The Dalhousie Review and was shortlisted for the 2012 CBC Short Story contest. His first published story, ‘Nina In The Body Of A Clown,‘ won the 2014 Western Magazine Award for Fiction. His […]
Matt Malyon, MFA 2015
Matt Malyon is the founding Director of Underground Writing, a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-risk communities in Washington through literacy and personal transformation. He is also a prison, jail, and juvenile detention chaplain, and the author of the poetry chapbook, During the Flood. His poetry has received a Pushcart […]