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Registration is open for our two new continuing education courses on writing the romantic comedy. Created by experienced screenwriter and UBC instructor Zac Hug, these courses will help you tell your own romantic comedy story by learning to create the outline and script. First course runs January 13 through February 17.

Learn how Sheryda Warrener infuses her Creative Writing courses with intentional practice, intellectual exploration, and a sense of playful curiosity.

Professor Keith Maillard recently won the 2024 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence from the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. The award recognizes annually a British Columbian writer who has contributed to the development of literary excellence in the province.

Tonya Lailey’s Farm: Lot 23 explores the complex relationship we have with land, particularly as it relates to agriculture. Her poems depict the spectrum of human experience that plays out on the stage of the family farm.

Art of Camouflage is a powerful debut about the lives of girls and women caught in the orbit of the military.

Returning to a favourite Northwest Territories setting, Richard Van Camp brings his exuberant style to a captivating teen novel that blends the supernatural with 1980s-era nostalgia to reflect on friendship, tradition and forgiveness.