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.
Virtual Writer in Residence Oliver Baez Bendorf brings mystery and transformation to UBC
The School of Creative Writing is welcoming poet Oliver Baez Bendorf as virtual writer in residence from January 23 to February 3. Oliver will lead workshops within Creative Writing classrooms, and also has openings for virtual one-to-one consultations on February 1 and 2.
Creative Writing students collaborate to celebrate National Poetry Month
End of term readings by poetry students fell during Canada’s 24th National Poetry Month. We captured a series of photographs depicting their poetic expressions throughout the month.
New books from Creative Writing alumni that expand our perspectives
Creative Writing alumni published a wide range of work in 2021. From fiction to poetry to nonfiction, mixing genres and category, these publications invite us to consider new perspectives.
Creative Writing students write on urban water sustainability in connection with the City of Vancouver
In the Winter 2021 term, Adjunct Professor Jennifer Moss’ Interactive Storytelling class created a series of written works centred on the regional water systems that sustain us.
Announcing our winter 2022 Visiting Writers
We’re pleased to announce the next group of Visiting Writers to meet with UBC Creative Writing students. We regularly bring working writers to visit classes and consult with students