Keith Maillard wins Alberta Book of the Year Award
UBC Creative Writing Professor Keith Maillard won a 2019 Book of The Year Award (Fiction) from the Book Publishers Association of Alberta for his novel, Twin Studies.
Creative Writing faculty & alumnus finalists for Scotiabank Giller Prize
Three members of UBC’s Creative Writing program are one step closer to winning the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Two faculty and one alumnus made the shortlist of six finalists.
UBC represents at 2019 Vancouver Writers Festival
This year’s Vancouver Writers Festival features faculty members and alumni speaking on a variety of issues topical to writers today.
Creative Writing affiliates longlisted for Canada’s largest literary award
Four members of UBC’s Creative Writing program were longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize: Michael Christie, MFA alumnus, for his novel Greenwood (McClelland & Stewart); Megan Gail Coles, MFA alumnus, for her novel Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club (House of Anansi Press); Alix Ohlin, program chair, for her novel Dual Citizens (House of […]
New online magazine reviews literature for teens
A new online magazine offers a space where books for tweens and teens can be celebrated intelligently. Young Adulting: Serious Reviews of Teen Fiction reviews young adult, middle grade and new adult books weekly.
New Shoots launches 34th anthology of teen writing and art
UBC Creative Writing’s New Shoots program celebrated the publication of its latest anthology of teen writing and art with a standing-room-only launch at the False Creek Community Centre on Granville Island.
UBC Creative Writing alumni receive National Magazine Awards
Two Creative Writing alumni received medals at this year’s National Magazine Awards. Meaghan Rondeau received a silver medal in personal journalism and Terence Young received a silver medal in poetry.
Students’ work ‘magic to behold’ at Hybrid Forms exhibit
BFA students in Lecturer Sheryda Warrener’s Hybrid Forms class celebrated the end of semester with an exhibition and reading from their final projects at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections.
Award-winning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt to join UBC’s creative writing program
Award-winning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt will join UBC’s Creative Writing Program as an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Creative Writing in January 2020.
Students, faculty and alums to attend AWP
The UBC Creative Writing Program will have a large presence at the 2019 AWP Conference in Portland, Oregon.