Summer Professional Development Day
During this intensive one-day Professional Development workshop, you’ll take part in four sessions designed to inform, prepare and re-energize your career as a writer. Sessions include insight from Literary Agent Sally Harding, Editor Nina Pronovost and bestselling author Amy Stuart. Open to Creative Writing Students, Alumni and writers from the community. Sunday July 9, 2017 >> […]
Brave New Playrites 2017
Now in its 31st year, the University of British Columbia presents the Brave New Play Rites Festival premiering twenty six short plays at Studio 1398 on Granville Island. We have 10 Full Productions and 16 Staged Readings, written by UBC Creative Writing students, and performed and presented by talent from in and around the Vancouver theatre community. […]
CLASS of 2016: On Stage!
Just announced: CLASS of 2016: On Stage! is UBC’s Baccalaureate Concert re-imagined for the UBC 100 Centennial celebrations. This year the event features talented students from throughout the UBC Arts & Culture District, including three Creative Writing graduates: Clara Kumagai reading from her YA/Children’s novel, and Alison Braid and Hava Rosenberg, reading their poetry. You’ll […]
How to Take Your Work to the Next Level and Get Published
Looking for an agent? Seeking to break into new markets? Wondering how to sort through a complex manuscript and bring it to publication? Jump Start Your Writing Career! During this intensive one-day Professional Development workshop, four writing professionals—an editor, a publisher, a nonfiction writer and a novelist—offer practical advice from the trenches of the writing […]
Brave New Play Rites Festival
For its 30th anniversary, UBC’s Brave New Play Rites Festival is premiering twelve short plays at Studio 1398 on Granville Island. The festival’s Staged Reading Series at PTC includes a panel talk on new play development with alumni of Brave New Play Rites and the UBC Creative Writing Program. The produced plays, written by BFA and MFA UBC Creative Writing students, are an […]
10 Post-It Notes: My Career in TV with Andrew Wreggitt
Join us on Wednesday January 28th, as UBC MFA Alumni Andrew Wreggitt talks about his career spanning thirty years in the television and media industry. With more than 90 hours of produced network television, five books of poetry and five plays to his credit, as well as numerous awards and nominations, Andrew has a wealth […]
50th Anniversary Gala
On March 15th, UBC Creative Writing hosted a wonderful Gala Reception to celebrate our 50th Anniversary. See the photos!
The Giller Prize Goes West
In an exciting first, Creative Writing will co-host this year’s announcement of the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist with the Vancouver Writers Fest on Monday, September 16 at 8:00 a.m. in UBC’s Museum of Anthropology. Never before has a Giller event been staged outside of Toronto; the location of this announcement symbolizes the growing influence of […]
50th Anniversary
Join us in celebrating our 50th anniversary! Over the next year we’ll be sponsoring a series of events to commemorate 50 years of Creative Writing at UBC.
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