New CRWR Courses Added!
We’ve added the following undergraduate CRWR courses for January: Open Enrolment: CRWR 213 – 002: Introduction to Writing for New Media Wednesday 2-5pm Instructor: Jackie Wong CRWR 209 – 002: Introduction to Writing Fiction Tuesday & Thursday 9:30 – 11:00 am Instructor: John Vigna CRWR 206: Introduction to Writing for the Screen Thursday 3:30 – […]
Writing Prize Finalists Announced
HarperCollinsCanada, The Cooke Agency and UBC Creative Writing are delighted to announce the finalists for the HarperCollinsCanada/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction. UBC MFAs Karim Alrawi, Michelle Kaeser and Kirsten Madsen have all been chosen as finalists for this exciting new annual prize. The winner of the prize will be offered literary representation by The […]
Faculty & Students on GG Shortlist
UBC Creative Writing Faculty member Joseph Boyden, MFA alumnus Shyam Selvadurai, and current MFA student Katherena Vermette have all been shortlisted for the 2013 Governor General’s Awards.
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.