Alumni Successes
Our MFA program alumni have been making remarkable strides in the publishing world! A quick roundup of congratulations to: Michelle Barker, whose novel “A Year of Borrowed Men” has been short-listed for the 2016 TD Canadian Children’s Literature award. Brooke Carter. Her YA novel “Another Miserable Love Song” has just been released by Orca Books. Anosh […]
How to Write a Novel: Structure & Outline
Have you always wanted to write a novel? Have you started a novel only to run out of steam halfway through? Led by faculty members Annabel Lyon and Nancy Lee, this online non-credit course will help you plan the structure and create an outline for your novel. The first step in the path to a finished […]
Welcoming Our Newest Instructors
We are delighted to welcome our three newest full-time lecturers to the Creative Writing program: Tariq Hussain (Lyric & Libretto), Sarah Leavitt (Graphic Forms), and Sheryda Warrener (Poetry). Tariq Hussain is a Vancouver based fiction and nonfiction writer as well as an accomplished songwriter and recording artist. He began his artistic career as a songwriter in his […]
Alumnus Book Publication
Congratulations to Creative Writing Alumnus Wayne Fipke on the publication of his novel The Way In. A first century history from the point of view of Jesus, The Way In, explores his life from early childhood in Alexandria, as a student at the famous library under the tutelage of a rabbi scholar, through to his crucifixion […]
Celebrating Alumni Successes
Our wonderful alumni continue to excel in the world. It’s hard to keep up! Forthwith, a compendium of some recent successes: Winner, Fiddlehead 2016 Best Short Fiction Prize ($2000 plus publication): Brent van Staalduinen for his story “Skinks”. Novel accepted for publication: Brooke Carter for her YA novel Learning Seventeen with Orca Book Publishers. The novel should […]
Sierra Skye Gemma wins National Newspaper Award
Congratulations to Sierra Skye Gemma, MFA Alumna and current UBC Creative Writing Staff member, for winning the 2015 National Newspaper Award in Long Feature. Writing in the Globe and Mail, Sierra Skye Gemma investigates her own attraction to pornography and considers what role her knowledge of porn might play in her son’s sexual education. With courage […]
Congratulations 2016 Graduates
Congratulations to all our graduates! We wish you all the best in your future endeavours. May a thousand poems / novels / stories / screenplays / songs / graphic novels / plays bloom.
2016 HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction
We’re pleased to announce the fourth annual HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction. This prize, a collaboration between UBC Creative Writing, HarperCollinsPublishersLtd and the Cooke Agency, offers agency representation and a publishing contract to the winning novel. It is open to all UBC Creative Writing students and alumni. Previous winners are: 2013 – Karim Alrawi, for Book […]
BC Book Prizes 2016
Congratulations to faculty and alumni nominated and winners of this year’s BC Book Prizes. MFA Alumna Annette LeBox, won the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize for Peace is an Offering, illustrated by Stephanie Graegin. Susan Musgrave, MFA Poetry Lecturer won the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award for her first cookbook A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting […]
CLASS of 2016: On Stage!
Just announced: CLASS of 2016: On Stage! is UBC’s Baccalaureate Concert re-imagined for the UBC 100 Centennial celebrations. This year the event features talented students from throughout the UBC Arts & Culture District, including three Creative Writing graduates: Clara Kumagai reading from her YA/Children’s novel, and Alison Braid and Hava Rosenberg, reading their poetry. You’ll […]