Join us to explore the range of career opportunities available to Creative Writing BFA students!
Our evening will start with networking tips from UBC Arts Career Strategist Robyn Stalkie. We’ll have a panel discussion with BFA alumni (moderated by our very own Lois Chan), and there will be plenty of the time to chat and ask questions.
Treats will be served. Please feel free to bring your own dinner!
Audience & Location
- Everyone is welcome to attend this free event.
- Registration is required to attend.
- Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Level 3, Room 301 (Peña Room)
Speakers
Alyssa Hirose (she/her) is a Vancouver-based writer, editor and comic artist. Her work has been published inVancouver magazine, Western Living, BCBusiness, Avenue Calgary, Nuvo, BCLiving, Geist and various other local publications and blogs. She has been drawing and publishing an autobiographical diary comic every day for six years (and counting), so if you want to know more about her she is very easy to stalk on Instagram at @hialyssacomics.
Kamila Sediego (she/her) is a daughter of immigrants, sister, auntie, partner, playwright, and dramaturg grateful to live on the stolen territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her ancestral roots stretch across the Pacific, and are embedded in the lands of Iloilo, Cebu, and Manila, Philippines.Kamila was a Playwrights Theatre Centre Associate (2021-2024), and is a Resident Dramaturg of Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre’s Creation Lab. Her play “Homecoming” (Urban Ink) premiered at The Cultch and The Evergreen Arts Centre in 2024. With the care and support of many, she is developing a new play, “Engkanto.”
Nicola Wanless (they/them) is a non-binary writer, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at UBC. Previous writing credits include, Dynamis Lost (Calgary Fringe Festival), Haunted FM (Calgary Fringe Festival), Submerged (Brave New Play Rites), and Signal (Art Out Loud Festival). They write and co-produce the narrative fiction podcast The Rest is Electric, two seasons of which are available online.