MFA alumni Kailash Srinivasan and Vivian Li make the 2024 CBC Short Story Prize longlist
Creative Writing MFA alumni Kailash Srinivasan and Vivian Li are on the 2024 CBC Short Story Prize longlist. The winner will receive $6,000, a writing residency and have their work published on CBC Books.
New books from Creative Writing alumni invite us into tenderly crafted worlds
Our Creative Writing alumni published compelling work over the last year, including a horror novel soaked with dreams, an intimate family saga set in a beachfront hotel, and a love letter to a son lost to overdose.
Alum ’22 Jason Emde discusses hosting Writers Read Their Early Sh*t podcast
In his fun, witty and insightful podcast, Jason Emde, MFA ‘22, discusses samples of early work with guest writers, musicians and artists. We asked him a few questions about the podcast, which can be found on Buzzsprout, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts.
Alum ’20 Jasmine Sealy discusses debut novel The Island of Forgetting
Jasmine Sealy’s debut novel The Island of Forgetting released in Canada on April 26. Sealy’s novel is based on her manuscript “A Fair Wind to Take You Home” that won the Prize for Best New Fiction in 2020. We interviewed Sealy about her experience taking The Island of Forgetting from draft to published novel.
New books from Creative Writing alumni that expand our perspectives
Creative Writing alumni published a wide range of work in 2021. From fiction to poetry to nonfiction, mixing genres and category, these publications invite us to consider new perspectives.
Michelle Good wins major awards for novel Five Little Indians
We’re pleased to announce that Michelle Good, MFA alum ’14, has won the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Amazon First Novel Award for her novel, Five Little Indians.
Writers’ Trust Award Winners
Congratulations to our award-winning MFA alumni! Jessica Johns, winner of the 2020 Journey Prize. Jessica won the award for her story “Bad Cree”, originally published in Grain Magazine. The story explores the truth inside a dream and the relationship between memory and grief. Where do you store a moment stuck on repeat? The $10,000 Writers’ […]
Creative Writing MFA student wins inaugural University of Lethbridge Bridge Prize
Congratulations to UBC Creative Writing MFA student Sara de Waal, who is the inaugural winner of the Bridge Prize national short story competition. Her story Cecilia and Richard won the $7,500 first-place award out of a pool of 340 stories submitted to the prize. The most carefully constructed story we received, beautiful deployment of metaphor, especially […]
2020 National Magazine Awards Winners
The National Media Awards Foundation recently announced the winners of the 43rd annual National Magazine Awards. For the first time, the winners were announced during a live virtual broadcast and through digital channels. We are proud to announce that two current MFA students and two MFA alumni have won awards! Congratulations to the following […]
Michelle Good’s novel “Five Little Indians” to be released next week
We are proud to announce that our MFA Alumna Michelle Good is releasing her novel Five Little Indians on April 14 with HarperCollins Canada. Michelle was the winner of our 2018 HarperCollins UBC prize for Best New Fiction and earned her MFA in Creative Writing while practising law. Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale recently […]