Nalo Hopkinson discusses her writing with the Faculty of Arts
UBC’s Faculty of Arts interviewed Professor Nalo Hopkinson on her writing, the importance of Black storytelling and her advice for students interested in academia.
Nalo Hopkinson awarded 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
UBC Creative Writing is pleased to announce that Professor Nalo Hopkinson has been awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts.
New books from Creative Writing faculty challenge conventional opinions
Over the last year, Creative Writing faculty published books in fiction, nonfiction and poetry that challenge conventional opinions on issues ranging from history to gender and sexuality to family and responsibility.
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.
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.
Creative Writing lecturer Sheryda Warrener receives UBC Killam Teaching Prize
Creative Writing lecturer Sheryda Warrener recently received a UBC 2020-2021 Killam Teaching Prize. This annual award recognizes excellence in teaching across UBC as determined by students, faculty and alumni.
Faculty and Alumni Finalists for GG and Amazon Awards
We’re delighted to announce that three members of the UBC School of Creative Writing are finalists for the 2020 Governor General’s Awards for Literature and the 2021 Amazon First Novel Award 2020 Governor General’s Awards: Billy-Ray Belcourt, assistant professor, is nominated for in the non-fiction category for his book, A History of My Brief Body. […]
Two faculty and five alumni finalists for 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes
We’re proud to announce that members of the UBC School of Creative Writing are finalists for the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes. Two faculty members and five alumni have been selected for this year’s shortlist.
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 […]
Agness, Murderess, Awards Winner!
Congratulations to Lecturer Sarah Leavitt, whose most recent graphic novel Agness, Murderess, has been scooping up nominations and awards this season. Winner of the Speculative Fiction Award from the Alberta Book Publishing Awards and shortlisted in the Best Cartoonist Category of the Joe Shuster Awards from the Canadian Comic Book Awards Association.