Yugumalleq: A film by MFA Candidate Kavelina Torres
Congratulations to MFA Candidate Kavelina Torres, whose short film Yugumalleq / Shades of Life will air in United States Indian Country and on PBS stations across the US on August 5th, 2018 at 4:30 pm PST (7:30 pm EST). Kavelina is a Sundance Native Film and an Alaska Native Playwright’s Program alumna. Her film, Yugumalleq, resides with […]
2018 New Shoots Anthology Launch
A fabulous time was had by all at the 2018 New Shoots Anthology Launch! Every year the Creative Writing Department partners with the Vancouver School Board and we send MFA’s into secondary schools as New Shoots Mentors. From December to May, New Shoots Mentors work with students as they explore every genre of writing imaginable […]
Leah Mol wins 2018 CBC Short Story Prize
Congratulations to Leah Mol, MFA Alumna, who’s this year’s winner of the $6000 CBC Short Story prize for her story Lipstick Day, a story about teens’ sexual behaviour and peer pressure.. http://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/leah-mol-wins-the-2018-cbc-short-story-prize-1.4616991
Congratulations to our Graduates
Congratulations to our graduating MFA and BFA students. Graduation was held on a lovely May Wednesday last week, and we’re happy to share some photos of faculty and students, as well as our honorary doctorate holder, Eden Robinson.
Eden Robinson Receives an Honorary Degree
We’re delighted that our MFA Alumna Eden Robinson, the internationally acclaimed Haisla and Heiltsuk novelist and short story writer, will be receiving an honorary doctoral degree today from UBC to recognize her substantial literary contributions. Our colleagues at the Faculty of Arts interviewed her recently about her literary accomplishments.
An Interview with MFA Alumnus Ellen Keith
UBC Creative Writing graduate Ellen Keith (MFA ’16) recently published her debut novel The Dutch Wife – a historical fiction work that she completed during the MFA Optional Residency program. The book, which won the HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, reached #1 on the Globe & Mail Canadian Fiction Bestseller List. Ellen talks with UBC […]
Alumni Spring Books
Every year, our fantastic BFA and MFA alumni continue to publish wonderful books, and Spring 2018 is no exception. The list of titles recently published or forthcoming includes thrillers, poetry collections, the satirical and the elegiac. Read them all and find out what our graduates are producing.
2018 HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction
We’re pleased to announce the fifth 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, […]
Writers in the Rereading Room
In collaboration with the UBC Creative Writing Program, the Belkin Art Gallery presents a reading and book signing featuring four acclaimed authors. Join us in the Rereading Room, a reconstruction of the Vancouver Women’s Bookstore (1973-1996), as we celebrate new books by UBC faculty members Amber Dawn, Kevin Chong, Maureen Medved and Timothy Taylor. Tuesday […]
Writing the Future: Gallery
We’re delighted to showcase some moments from our Indigenous Alumni Reading, “Writing the Future”, held at UBC on March 19th, 2018. All photos courtesy of Edward Chang of V. Saran Photo.