Announcement

Call for applications: The Geoffrey & Margaret Andrew Fellowship

Call for applications: The Geoffrey & Margaret Andrew Fellowship

The School of Creative Writing is now accepting applications for The Geoffrey & Margaret Andrew Fellowship in Creative & Performing Arts. The application deadline is September 30.

Sarah Leavitt

UBC Creative Writing hires first tenure-track faculty member in graphic forms

The School of Creative Writing welcomes cartoonist and educator Sarah Leavitt to its faculty as an assistant professor specializing in graphic forms. Leavitt is the School’s first tenure-track faculty member in this genre.

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Award-winning speculative fiction author Nalo Hopkinson joins UBC

Award-winning speculative fiction author Nalo Hopkinson has joined the School of Creative Writing as a professor. She will teach courses in speculative fiction and will also work to establish a centre for the Black Speculative Imagination.

New Writing for Video Games certificate program begins July 5

New Writing for Video Games certificate program begins July 5

Acquire the globally in-demand skills necessary to succeed as a writer in the fast-growing world of video games with our new Writing for Video Games Professional Certificate Program on edX.

Welcoming Bronwen Tate to UBC Creative Writing

Welcoming Bronwen Tate to UBC Creative Writing

We’re delighted to welcome our newest faculty member, Bronwen Tate, to UBC Creative Writing. Bronwen joins us as an Assistant Professor of Teaching, with specializations in nonfiction and poetry. Bronwen earned an MFA in Literary Arts: Poetry from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and taught at a tiny college in […]

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Winner Announcement – the 2020 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction

We’re pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction is Jasmine Sealy for “A Fair Wind to Take You Home.” The two runner-up titles are “Ursula,” by Tammy Armstrong, and “Gladys Owen,” by Clea Roberts.

Upcoming Online MFA Information Session

Upcoming Online MFA Information Session

Interested in learning more about UBC Creative Writing’s MFA Program? Please join us online Tuesday, October 13 at 3PM Vancouver time for a live information session and the chance to ask questions of faculty, current students, and alumni. Click here to register for this free event.

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Creative Writing Courses Online – Fall 2020

All Creative Writing courses in Term 1 2020 will be completely online. Instructors are currently working on how best to meet student needs, and determining whether online courses will be synchronous (i.e., “real time”), asynchronous, or a combination of the two.

“The Show Must Go…Online!”: Brave New Play Rites Festival Goes Virtual

“The Show Must Go…Online!”: Brave New Play Rites Festival Goes Virtual

During these uncertain times we need a form of escape and the Creative Writing Program has exactly what you’re looking for! The 34th Annual Brave New Play Rites Festival has moved online, live readings are being broadcasted on Saturdays at 1pm PST for the next five weeks. You can access BNPR’s YouTube channel through this […]

UBC Creative Writing Members Shortlisted for 2020 BC and Yukon Book Prizes

UBC Creative Writing Members Shortlisted for 2020 BC and Yukon Book Prizes

We are very proud to announce that members of UBC’s Creative Writing Program have been shortlisted for the 2020 BC and Yukon Book Prizes! Two faculty members and four alumni have been selected: Michael Christie (Alumnus) Francine Cunningham (Alumna) Kayla Czaga (Alumna) Nazanine Hozar (Alumna) Alix Ohlin (Faculty) Rhea Tregebov (Faculty Emerita) The winners will […]