Meet our most recent MFA grads
We’re proud to announce our most recent cohort of MFA graduates. To celebrate this significant accomplishment, we’ve compiled a special showcase to highlight the exceptional creative work produced by our graduates.
Get your tickets for the 2025 Brave New Play Rites Festival
For the 39th year in a row, the Bryan Wade Brave New Play Rites Festival (BNPR), produced by the UBC School of Creative Writing, will take place at the Dorothy Somerset Studio at UBC in Vancouver from March 11 to March 15 at 7:00 pm.
Announcing the 2024 HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize Shortlist
HarperCollinsPublishersLtd, the UBC School of Creative Writing and CookeMcDermid Literary Management are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2024 HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, co-sponsored by CookeMcDermid Literary Management.
Read our latest collection of comics from Creative Writing students
Please enjoy this collection of excellent comics from students in our 2024/25 comics classes.
2024 Summer Residency Film Showcase: List of Films
The 11th Annual Summer Residency Film Showcase is a virtual screening of short films, web series and TV episodes written by our students and alumni, followed by a Q & A with the filmmakers. Learn more.
2024 Optional Summer Residency: Speakers and Guests
Our 20th Annual UBC Creative Writing Summer Residency runs from July 3 to 12, 2024. Learn more about the speakers and guests featured this year.
UBC Creative Writing seeks submissions for 2024 Prize for Best New Fiction
We’re excited to announce the prestigious HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction is seeking submissions for its eighth year. We invite enrolled students and previous graduates of UBC Creative Writing to submit starting May 1.
Indigenous Engagement in the School of Creative Writing
We warmly welcome applications from Indigenous students to our BFA and MFA programs. Learn more.
What postmemory makes possible: A conversation with poets Brandon Shimoda and Victoria Chang
As part of our Visiting Writer series, we were honoured to host a poetry panel with Brandon Shimoda and Victoria Chang, hosted by Lecturer Sheryda Warrener. We’ve gathered some excerpts from the poetry panel to share with you on the page.
Ars Scientia inspires new collaboration between creative writing and physics students
Creative Writing has launched a new non-fiction writing course that brings together physics and creative writing students to produce engaging and accessible science stories. The course, dubbed Storytelling, Persuasion, and Physics, was launched in January 2023.