HarperCollinsCanada, Cooke Agency, UBC launch annual fiction prize
HarperCollinsCanada announced today the creation of a new annual writing prize: the HarperCollinsCanada/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction. This prize is a collaboration of HarperCollinsCanada, The Cooke Agency and the University of British Columbia and is open to currently enrolled students and previous graduates of the UBC Creative Writing Program. The annual winner of […]
Congratulations to Giller Longlisted Faculty & Alumni
UBC Creative Writing faculty members Wayne Grady and Joseph Boyden are both longlisted for the $50,000 2013 Scotiabank Giller Award.
Joseph Boyden in the National Post
Joseph Boyden, fiction instructor in the UBC Creative Writing program, in The National Post: His new novel not only revisits the landscape of his childhood but transports readers back to Canada’s formative years. It is a novel that should cement his status as one of the most important Canadian writers working today, and, if all […]
The Giller Prize Goes West
In an exciting first, Creative Writing will co-host this year’s announcement of the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist with the Vancouver Writers Fest on Monday, September 16 at 8:00 a.m. in UBC’s Museum of Anthropology. Never before has a Giller event been staged outside of Toronto; the location of this announcement symbolizes the growing influence of […]
Celebrated Canadian authors join UBC Creative Writing
New faculty members, a minor program, and a partnership to announce the Scotiabank Giller Prize nominations help mark our 50th anniversary.
Penguin Random House Canada and UBC Creative Writing Partner on New Scholarships and Writing Course
(Toronto) Penguin Random House Canada is pleased to announce that it has entered into a partnership with the UBC Creative Writing Program. The partnership will include Penguin Random House Canada /Hazlitt-sponsored scholarships for the program, the creation of a new non-fiction course, and production assistance in publishing the UBC Creative Writing Program’s 50th anniversary anthology, Naked in […]
50th Anniversary
Join us in celebrating our 50th anniversary! Over the next year we’ll be sponsoring a series of events to commemorate 50 years of Creative Writing at UBC.
Welcoming New Faculty
UBC Creative Writing is delighted to welcome new Assistant Professors Nancy Lee and Timothy Taylor.
Christine Fellows & John K. Samson Performance
Singer-songwriters Christine Fellows and John K. Samson (of The Weakerthans) perform at UBC February 8, at 8:00 pm The UBC School of Music, in partnership with the UBC Creative Writing Program, present Winnipeg singer-songwriters Christine Fellows and John K. Samson in performance at UBC in the Roy Barnett Recital Hall on February 8, 2013. Christine […]