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Read our latest collection of comics from Creative Writing students

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Oliver Baez Bendorf

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

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

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.