Sonia Di Placido, MFA 2023
Sonia’s novel, Falling for Beatrice, explores themes of intimacy in human relationships: pregnancy, childbearing, abortion, cis-gender and non-cis gender friendship, challenges of scholarly pursuit in the subject of women’s sex trafficking and abortion while exploring gender identity in a colonized, post-modern global society.
Ricardo Mulhia, MFA 2023
Ricardo’s thesis, La Güera del Cine, translates from Spanish into “The Blonde from the Movies”. It forrays into a forgotten part of cinematic history, the stories of traveling cinemas in the 1980s in rural central Mexico.
Complete your registration for our Virtual Celebration
Thank you for registering for our Virtual Celebration on Thursday, May 6 at 5:00 PM PDT. Before the event begins, we need you to select your discussion room topic and networking group. A complete list of discussion room topics is available at the bottom of this page. Please complete your registration by Wednesday, May 5 at […]
Yugumalleq: A film by MFA Candidate Kavelina Torres
Congratulations to MFA Candidate Kavelina Torres, whose short film Yugumalleq / Shades of Life will air in United States Indian Country and on PBS stations across the US on August 5th, 2018 at 4:30 pm PST (7:30 pm EST). Kavelina is a Sundance Native Film and an Alaska Native Playwright’s Program alumna. Her film, Yugumalleq, resides with […]
2018 New Shoots Anthology Launch
A fabulous time was had by all at the 2018 New Shoots Anthology Launch! Every year the Creative Writing Department partners with the Vancouver School Board and we send MFA’s into secondary schools as New Shoots Mentors. From December to May, New Shoots Mentors work with students as they explore every genre of writing imaginable […]
Alumni Event with BFA Alumnus Morris Panych
UBC Creative Writing, UBC Opera Ensemble and UBC Theatre & Film present a special evening with director Morris Panych (BFA’77) and set designer Ken McDonald (BEd’72), the creative masterminds behind Vancouver Opera’s upcoming production of The Overcoat. Join us for an intimate discussion and Q&A, moderated by Professor Emeritus Jerry Wasserman. Following the talk, enjoy drinks […]
Writers in the Rereading Room
In collaboration with the UBC Creative Writing Program, the Belkin Art Gallery presents a reading and book signing featuring four acclaimed authors. Join us in the Rereading Room, a reconstruction of the Vancouver Women’s Bookstore (1973-1996), as we celebrate new books by UBC faculty members Amber Dawn, Kevin Chong, Maureen Medved and Timothy Taylor. Tuesday […]
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 […]
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 […]