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Workshop with Cartoonist Walter Scott on Creating Comics

01 March 2024 10:00 am
  • Categories: Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Walter Scott will lead a comics-making workshop for graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Creative Writing, based on a series of writing and drawing exercises.

Corinna Chong in Conversation with Alix Ohlin

21 March 2024 7:00 pm
  • Categories: Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Corinna Chong reads and discusses her work in conversation with Alix Ohlin.

2024 Alumni Summer Residency with Zac Hug

03 July 2024 - 12 July 2024
  • Categories: Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

We’re pleased to announce that we will once again be running an alumni class as part of the UBC School of Creative Writing annual Summer Residency. The class and any other summer residency events will be held weekdays from Wednesday, July 3 to Friday, July 12.

UBC Creative Writing Faculty Reading & Reception

16 September 2024 2:00 pm
  • Venue: The Chan Centre for Performing Arts
  • Categories: Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Please join us to hear from faculty who are publishing new work this year – four faculty will be reading in September and five in January. Come relax and listen to readings, mingle with students, faculty and staff, and have a drink and a snack.

Climate Anxiety & Creativity: Workshop with Kate Schapira

23 September 2024 2:00 pm
  • Categories: Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Can we write our way out of the climate crisis? Not exactly—but imagining, discussing, recording and reimagining a livable present and future can expand our interest and flexibility, building us a vision to work toward and reasons to work toward it—even in the context of the climate realities we know. Bring your anxiety, rage, despair, […]

BFA Prospective Student Info Session

18 November 2024 1:00 pm
  • Categories: Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events, Featured Undergraduate

Join us for an online Info Session for all prospective CRWR Minor and CRWR Major students.

Writing the Romantic Comedy Course 1: The Outline (online, asynchronous, non-credit)

13 January 2025 - 17 February 2025
  • Categories: Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

CANCELLED Reading & Reception with Joshua Whitehead, Writer in Residence at the School of Creative Writing

13 January 2025 3:00 pm
  • Venue: Dodson Room (Room 302)
  • Categories: Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Joshua Whitehead’s visit to our campus has unfortunately been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We hope to be able to welcome Joshua in the future; please follow us for updates.

On Indigenous Joy: A Reading with Joshua Whitehead, Tenille Campbell and Kaitlyn Purcell (online)

20 January 2025 2:00 pm
  • Categories: Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree), Tenille Campbell (Dene/Métis), and Kaitlyn Purcell (Dënésułıné) will read from their recent work and discuss the role of joy in Indigenous literatures.

Reading & Reception: New Work by Faculty in the School of Creative Writing

27 January 2025 2:00 pm
  • Categories: Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Please join us to hear from five faculty who are publishing new work in 2025. Come relax and listen to readings, mingle with students, faculty and staff, and have a drink and a snack.

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