Welcome Reception for Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

15 January 2024 3:00 pm

Venue: Dodson Room (Room 302)
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Please join us as we welcome our writer-in-residence, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, on the first day of her residency.

Reading with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Special Guests

22 January 2024 3:00 pm

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson reads from her work with special guests Canisia Lubrin and Junie Desil. Hosted by Billy-Ray Belcourt.

Reading and Talk with Cartoonist Walter Scott about Wendy

29 February 2024 1:00 pm

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Walter Scott will read from his beloved comic series, Wendy, and will discuss his creative process and career as a cartoonist and visual artist.

Workshop with Cartoonist Walter Scott on Creating Comics

01 March 2024 10:00 am

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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

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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

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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
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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.

Translation, Multilingualism, Poetics: Language Work in Muslim and Jewish Diasporas

19 September 2024 3:30 pm

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This interdisciplinary roundtable brings together three Muslim and Jewish scholar-translator-poets — Denis Ferhatović, Rahat Kurd, and Anna Elena Torres — to discuss the cross-currents of their work and the generativity of translation and multilingualism in Jewish and Muslim cultural work, with particular attention to dissension from state-sponsored narratives

Climate Anxiety & Creativity: Workshop with Kate Schapira

23 September 2024 2:00 pm

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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, […]

ART-ificial: How We Handle Ethics When Using AI

21 October 2024 11:30 am

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Join UBC’s School of Creative Writing for a panel featuring Vauhini Vara, Michele Elam, and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram to discuss the use of artificial intelligence as a tool in creative work and how each artist navigates their own ethical qualms and queries.