Second Annual Cold Reading Series Collaboration
Our Second Annual Cold Reading Series Collaboration has come and gone. The event took place Monday, February 26th 2018 at the Vancouver Film School Cafe. The readings of the work of all four writers were outstanding and featured Plotless by Andrey Summers’ My Grandmother Knew Dracula by Max D’Ambrosio, Cold Calling by Stephanie Hungerford and Anne’s Home for Unwed Mother’s by Jocelyn Tennant. Congratulations to […]
MFA’s Reading Series ‘Locution’ hosts Indigenous Evening with Alicia Elliott and Katherena Vermette
Locution is a monthly reading series hosted by the MFA Creative Writing Program. This month’s event was a special Indigenous edition and welcomed amazing guest readers such as Katherena Vermette and Alicia Elliott. The host for the night was none other than Carleigh Baker. Other wonderfully talented readers included Molly Cross-Blanchard, Jessica Johns, Kavelina Torres […]
MFA’s Reading Series ‘Locution’ hosts Indigenous Evening with Alicia Elliott and Katherena Vermette
Locution is a monthly reading series hosted by the MFA Creative Writing Program. This month’s event was a special Indigenous edition and welcomed amazing guest readers such as Katherena Vermette and Alicia Elliott. The host for the night was none other than Carleigh Baker. Other wonderfully talented readers included Molly Cross-Blanchard, Jessica Johns, Kavelina Torres […]
Alumna focus: Francine Cunningham: ‘I walk around all day observing things and thinking about what ifs.’
Francine Cunningham is a Canadian Indigenous writer, artist and educator. Her creative non-fiction has appeared in The Malahat Review, the anthology Boobs: women explore what it means to have breasts (Caitlin Press), The Best Canadian Essays 2017 (TightRope Books), and more. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Puritan, Joyland Magazine, Echolocation Magazine, The […]
Hiromi Goto Visits UBC Creative Writing Department
Hiromi Goto is a writer of poetry and fiction (full bio here) who visited our students here at the UBC Creative Writing Department in January. She attended student workshops and gave a process-based lecture to our undergraduates that explored elements of poetry such as line break vs. prose poem, structure/form, rhyme, homonyms, metaphor, cadence, creativity/cliché, […]
“The Impossible Uncaused Cause”- an Interview with Timothy Taylor, Author of The Rule of Stephens
Timothy Taylor is a novelist/journalist and the author of eight books. He has been nominated for numerous literary prizes including the Giller Prize, The Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize and both the Vancouver and BC Book Awards. We caught up with Timothy to talk about his latest novel The Rule of Stephens and his writing […]
MFA Alumna Eden Robinson Wins $50,000 Writer’s Trust Fellowship
MFA alumna Eden Robinson has won the third Writer’s Trust Fellowship, intended to free writers substantially from financial concerns and provide a window in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. The Writers’ Trust Fellowship comes with an award of $50,000. The unrestricted Fellowship is awarded to a writer who has […]
Marcus Youssef wins Siminovitch Prize
Congratulations to Marcus Youssef, MFA alumnus, who is the winner of the 2017 $100,000 Siminovitch Prize, Canada’s richest and most prestigious theatre award. The award includes a protégé element: each year’s winner chooses another artist to receive $25,000 of the total prize. Marcus selected theatre artist Christine Quintana (UBC Theatre BFA alumna) to share in his award. […]
‘Protect your voice’- An Interview with Carleigh Baker, Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Nominee
Carleigh Baker is a Cree-Metis/ Icelandic writer who lives as a guest on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Essays, PRISM International, Matrix, and The Journey Prize Anthology. She also writes reviews for the Globe and Mail, the Literary Review of Canada, and the Malahat Review. Baker is an […]
Alumna Oana Avasilichioaei Wins Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
We congratulate alumna Oana Avasilichioaei for winning her first Governor General’s Literary Award in 2017 with her translation Readopolis (Lectodôme, by Bertrand Laverdure). You can read the details here. The Prize recognizes Canada’s best English and French books in 7 categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Young People’s Literature – Text, Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books and […]