Alumni nominated for Pushcart Prize
UBC CRWR alumni Ruth Daniell is a current nominee for the Pushcart Prize, with her poem “Love and Nail Polish,” published in One Throne Magazine.
Vancouver Poet Laureate
Congratulations to UBC MFA Alumni and award-winning poet Rachel Rose, who has been appointed as Vancouver’s fourth poet laureate, the City of Vancouver – Local Government the Vancouver Writers Fest and the Vancouver Public Library announced today. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson will formally introduce Rachel Rose as Vancouver’s fourth poet laureate at the Mayor’s Arts […]
Writers’ Trust & Journey Prize Shortlists
UBC Creative Writing professor Steven Galloway has been shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. This annual award for the best work of fiction published in Canada is worth $25,000. The award winner will be announced on November 4th. Two UBC alumni have been shortlisted for the 2014 Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, […]
Student and Alumni Nominations & Awards
Congratulations to our fantastic students and alumni, who have been doing great things lately! Tara Armstrong (BFA Grad) and Rebecca Hales (MFA Grad) are two of nine writers selected for the 2014 Bell Media Prime Time TV Program. They’ll take part in a full-time five-month program that delivers a team-based approach to TV series writing […]
MFA Student Chosen for Best New Poets 2014
Congratulations to current MFA student Ellie Sawatzky, whose poem “Repeat Offenders” was chosen for the Best New Poets 2014 anthology. Best New Poets is an annual anthology of 50 poems from emerging writers. Each year, a guest editor selects 50 poems from nominations made by literary magazines and writing programs, as well as an open internet […]
BFA Alumni wins Malahat Far Horizons Award
Congratulations to Laura Ritland, BFA (2013), who has won the Malahat Review 2014 Far Horizons Award for her poem “Vincent, in the Dream of Zundert.” The poem was chosen from close to 800 entries. Ritland’s poem will appear in the Winter 2015 issue (#189). She was awarded a $1,000 prize for her win. More information […]
MFA Student Sells Novel to Penguin
Congratulations to new MFA Jay Hosking, who’s just sold his debut novel Three Years with the Rat, “a dark and mysterious novel about a young man’s search for his sister and best friend, two scientists who had disappeared, leaving behind a wooden box, a lab rat and a note saying: “this is the only way […]
Undergraduate Radio Play Contest Winner
UBC undergraduate student Armin Mortazavi’s comedic noir drama “A Brief Case,” written for CRWR 307, will be performed live on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 in Toronto by Radio Project X. The show will be recorded and available as a podcast on their website before the end of August. Radio Project X is a collective dedicated […]
The Concessions by Briana Brown
Briana Brown, a recent CRWR alumni, enjoyed the world premiere for her stage play, The Concessions, produced by Touchstone Theatre at the Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver, B.C., from June 5 -14, 2014. The Concessions was produced as part of The Flying Start program by Touchstone Theatre, in association with Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC) and the Firehall Arts […]
Jill Sexsmith Wins Writers’ Union Contest
Congratulations to Optional-Residency MFA alumni Jill Sexsmith for winning the 21st Annual Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Contest. Her story “This is an Epic Love Story” won the $2,500 prize. More information here.