Alumni Nominations for the International Dublin Literary Award Longlist
MFA alumni Anosh Irani and Katherena Vermette as well as BFA alumna Jen Sookfong Lee have been nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018. Anosh has been nominated for her book The Parcel, Katherena for The Break and Jen for The Conjoined. All books were previously nominated for other awards. The International Dublin Literary award is the world’s most valuable annual […]
Marcus Youssef wins Siminovitch Prize
Congratulations to Marcus Youssef, MFA alumnus, who is the winner of the 2017 $100,000 Siminovitch Prize, Canada’s richest and most prestigious theatre award. The award includes a protégé element: each year’s winner chooses another artist to receive $25,000 of the total prize. Marcus selected theatre artist Christine Quintana (UBC Theatre BFA alumna) to share in his award. […]
‘Protect your voice’- An Interview with Carleigh Baker, Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Nominee
Carleigh Baker is a Cree-Metis/ Icelandic writer who lives as a guest on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Essays, PRISM International, Matrix, and The Journey Prize Anthology. She also writes reviews for the Globe and Mail, the Literary Review of Canada, and the Malahat Review. Baker is an […]
Alumna Oana Avasilichioaei Wins Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
We congratulate alumna Oana Avasilichioaei for winning her first Governor General’s Literary Award in 2017 with her translation Readopolis (Lectodôme, by Bertrand Laverdure). You can read the details here. The Prize recognizes Canada’s best English and French books in 7 categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Young People’s Literature – Text, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books and […]
‘I like to get to the guts of my characters.’ – An interview with Eden Robinson, nominee for the Giller Fiction Prize 2017
Eden Robinson is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. Her novel Monkey Beach was nominated for The Giller Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. It received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her latest novel Son of a Trickster is also nominated for The Giller Fiction Prize. Eden is an alumna […]
More Awards and Nominations for UBC Creative Writing Students, Alumni and Faculty
The literary awards season continues and we congratulate MFA alumni Marcus Youssef (Theatre) and Peg Campbell (Film and New Media) as well as new adjunct professor Joanne Arnott (Literary Arts), who were honoured at the Mayor’s Arts Awards last night. The annual Mayor’s Arts Awards recognize 20 established and emerging artists from a diversity of communities. […]
Eden Robinson, MFA Alumna, Shortlisted for Giller Prize
Congratulations to Eden Robinson, Creative Writing MFA Alumna, for being shortlisted for the 2017 Giller Prize for her novel Son of a Trickster. Eden, a Haisla/Heiltsuk writer, lives in Kitimaat, BC. This her second nomination for the Giller: her novel, Monkey Beach, was shortlisted in 2000. The Giller Prize is Canada’s largest literary award, at $100,000. The […]
MFA Awards and Nominations
Congratulations to MFAs Carleigh Baker and Karla Comanda! Karla Comanda is the winner of the Asian Canadian Writers Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award, based upon her poetry thesis and work with Professor Emerita Rhea Tregebov. She has been featured in LitFest: Edmonton’s Nonfiction Festival. Her works have appeared in Contemporary Verse 2: Poetry Lives Here, Glass […]
Marcus Youssef nominated for Siminovitch Prize
Congratulations to MFA Alumnus Marcus Youssef, who has been shortlisted for a Siminovitch Prize for playwriting, the largest national theatre award in Canada. The Siminovitch Prize awards its winner $100,000, rotating over a three-year cycle to alternate honouring professional directors, playwrights, and designers. Finalists get $5,000. The prize will be awarded at a ceremony on November 6 […]
Congratulations to Andrew Gray and J.S. Herbison
Congratulations to Creative Writing staff member (and MFA alumnus) Andrew Neil Gray and MFA alumna J.S. Herbison on the publication of their first novella, The Ghost Line, out this week from Tor.com. Parters in life as well as writing, Gray and Herbison first met while completing their MFAs at UBC. The Martian Queen was the Titanic of the stars […]