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.
“Writing Is a Long Distance Game”- an Interview with Maureen Medved, Author of the Upcoming Novel “Black Star”
Maureen Medved’s writing has been published in literary journals and magazines and on the stage and screen internationally. Maureen’s screenplay adaptation of her novel The Tracey Fragments opened the Panorama program of the 57th annual Berlin International Film Festival, winning the Manfred Salzgeber Prize for a film that “broadens the boundaries of cinema today.” Her novel […]
Congratulations to our MFA and alumni nominated for the BC Book Prizes!
Congratulations to our students and alumni! The West Coast Book Prize Society announced the finalists for the 2018 BC Book Prizes. The BC Book Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers. The seven Prizes are presented annually at the Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prizes Gala in the spring, as […]