Sara Graefe tours for “Swelling with Pride”
Creative Writing faculty member Sara Graefe will be on the road in the coming weeks, launching her new CNF collection, Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories in various Canadian cities in events featuring readings with locally-based contributors. The book includes nonfiction stories by 25 LGBTQ+ writers from across Canada and the US, and […]
Maureen Medved in Toronto and Montreal
Faculty member Maureen Medved is on the road, promoting her fabulous new book “Black Star” in Toronto and Montreal.
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Term with Sheryda Warrener- Winner of the Thomas Mortan Memorial Prize
Sheryda Warrener is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Floating is Everything (Nightwood, 2015). Her work has been featured in a recent Believer art issue, and shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, the Arc Magazine Poem of the Year, the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, and selected as runner-up for Lemon Hound’s inaugural poetry contest. In 2016, she became […]