News & Events

For the 39th year in a row, the Bryan Wade Brave New Play Rites Festival (BNPR), produced by the UBC School of Creative Writing, will take place at the Dorothy Somerset Studio at UBC in Vancouver from March 11 to March 15 at 7:00 pm.

With Valentine’s Day approaching, romance is in the air—and on the page. Zac Hug is a screenwriter who has built a career crafting romantic comedies that bring comfort, humour and heart to audiences. We spoke with Hug about his work with Hallmark, and how he is helping aspiring writers shape their own love stories for the screen with a new, non-credit online course.

February is Black History Month in Canada. Here are six books to read by Black scholars in the Faculty of Arts that explore crucial themes of Black history, identity and resistance. This list includes books from professors Nalo Hopkinson and Whitney French of Creative Writing.

February is Black History Month in Canada. Here are six books to read by Black scholars in the Faculty of Arts that explore crucial themes of Black history, identity and resistance. This list includes books from professors Nalo Hopkinson and Whitney French of Creative Writing.

This past year, Creative Writing faculty have been prolific. They’ve published adult and young adult fiction, children’s books, and anthologies, and produced plays, podcasts and radio shows that call on us to consider our place in the world.

Over the last year, Creative Writing faculty published fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid works that see the world through collaborative acts of art-making—with family, ancestors and communities, and with illustrators, teachers and screenwriters.