2023 Alumni Summer Residency with Zac Hug

05 July 2023 - 14 July 2023

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We look forward to welcoming alumni back to campus this summer! Join us this July at the 2023 UBC Creative Writing Summer Residency. We’re pleased to offer a multi-genre, non-credit class just for alumni, led by the amazing Zac Hug. This non-credit class runs from Wednesday, July 5 to Friday, July 14, and alumni can also register for Camp Comics on Saturday, July 15.

You’re invited! Attend our Alumni Celebration on July 6

06 July 2023 5:30 pm

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Meet up with old friends and new at our alumni celebration on the evening of Thursday, July 6, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction.

Camp Comics: Summer ’23

15 July 2023 9:30 am

Venue: Buchanan E Courtyard
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The comics team at the School of Creative Writing is super excited to announce that we’ll be hosting our first ever comics camp for adults this summer on Saturday, July 15.

Zadie Smith in Conversation with Madeleine Thien

23 September 2023 7:30 pm

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Presented by the Vancouver Writers Fest in partnership with UBC School of Creative Writing and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. This event is currently sold out. 30 tickets were distributed to students in August via a lottery. If you want to be on a waitlist in case one of the ticket holders is […]

Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki in Conversation

16 October 2023 3:00 pm

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Join us for a conversation with Caldecott Medal-winning authors Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki on their forthcoming comic, Roaming (September 2023). Moderated by alum Emily Chou, MFA 2023. In Roaming, an unexpected fling blossoms between casual acquaintances and throws a long-term friendship off-balance during a trip to New York. Emotional tensions vibrate wildly against the resplendently […]

Talk and Reading with Megan Fernandes

21 November 2023 12:00 pm

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Join us for a talk and reading with scholar and writer Megan Fernandes hosted by Assistant Professor Cecily Nicholson. Megan is a writer living in New York City. She has published in The New Yorker, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, among others. Her third book of poetry, I Do Everything I’m […]