News

Achievement, Alumni

MFA alums Dora Prieto and Jess Goldman win $10K RBC Bronwen Wallace Awards

June 18, 2025
Announcement

We're hiring a lecturer in writing for screen

June 11, 2025
Achievement, Announcement, Students

Meet our most recent MFA grads

June 9, 2025
Publications

Celebrate poetry with us this spring

May 13, 2025
Announcement, Students

Get your tickets for the 2025 Brave New Play Rites Festival

March 4, 2025
Interviews

Zac Hug found his calling in writing Hallmark rom-coms—and so can you

February 13, 2025
Faculty, Publications

Six books by UBC Arts scholars to read for Black History Month and beyond

February 11, 2025
Announcement, Faculty

Meet the new faculty in Creative Writing winter 2025

February 6, 2025
Faculty

A dying wish, forgotten boxes, and a lost Holocaust archive rediscovered

January 27, 2025
Announcement

Writer in Residence Joshua Whitehead will mentor students and lead two public events while at UBC

January 8, 2025
Announcement

Registration open for Writing the Romantic Comedy courses with screenwriter Zac Hug

December 3, 2024
Interviews

Exploring Artistic Practices in Creative Writing with Sheryda Warrener

November 20, 2024
Achievement, Faculty

UBC professor Keith Maillard wins the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence

October 11, 2024
Achievement, Announcement

Winner of the HarperCollinsPublishersLtd / UBC Prize for Best New Fiction announced

September 27, 2024
Announcement

20% off books by visiting writers and faculty at UBC Bookstore until September 30

September 15, 2024
Achievement, Alumni, Students

Announcing the 2024 HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize Shortlist

September 13, 2024
Achievement, Students

Read our latest collection of comics from Creative Writing students

July 22, 2024
Alumni, Students

2024 Summer Residency Film Showcase: List of Films

July 4, 2024
Achievement, Alumni, Faculty

UBC professor emeritus George McWhirter receives largest international award for poetry

June 28, 2024
Achievement, Alumni, Interviews

Alum ’00 Tammy Armstrong discusses latest novel Pearly Everlasting

June 27, 2024
Announcement, Students

2024 Optional Summer Residency: Speakers and Guests

June 4, 2024
Announcement

Monthly comics support group open to new members

May 29, 2024
Faculty, Interviews

Education through comics: Exploring the pedagogical value of comic art with Sarah Leavitt

May 14, 2024
Alumni, Announcement, Students

UBC Creative Writing seeks submissions for 2024 Prize for Best New Fiction

May 1, 2024
Achievement, Alumni

MFA alumni Kailash Srinivasan and Vivian Li make the 2024 CBC Short Story Prize longlist

April 15, 2024
Announcement

Get your tickets for the 2024 Brave New Play Rites Festival

March 4, 2024
Achievement, Faculty

Two Creative Writing professors receive Dean of Arts Educational Leadership and Innovation Award

February 23, 2024
Students

Indigenous Engagement in the School of Creative Writing

February 23, 2024
Faculty, Interviews

Defining love through the lens of Arts with Mandy Catron

February 9, 2024
Announcement

Indigenous Writer in Residence Leanne Betasamosake Simpson brings creativity and insight to UBC

January 4, 2024
Faculty, Publications

New work by Creative Writing faculty to add to your winter to-do list

December 20, 2023
Achievement, Faculty

Anosh Irani receives Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award

December 18, 2023
Announcement, Faculty

Meet the new faculty in Creative Writing fall 2023

November 1, 2023
Achievement, Faculty

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich awarded Hampton New Faculty Grant

October 17, 2023
Alumni, Announcement

New books from Creative Writing alumni invite us into tenderly crafted worlds

July 11, 2023
Alumni, Interviews, Students

What postmemory makes possible: A conversation with poets Brandon Shimoda and Victoria Chang

March 13, 2023
Announcement

The Bryan Wade Brave New Play Rites Festival takes a brave new turn

March 8, 2023
Announcement, Students

Ars Scientia inspires new collaboration between creative writing and physics students

March 1, 2023
Announcement, Faculty

Meet the new faculty in Creative Writing 2023

January 24, 2023
Alumni, Announcement, Students

Virtual Writer in Residence Oliver Baez Bendorf brings mystery and transformation to UBC

January 19, 2023
Faculty, Publications

New publications from Creative Writing faculty expand our ideas on belonging and connection

December 1, 2022
Achievement, Faculty

Assistant Professor Billy-Ray Belcourt named a Canada Research Chair

November 17, 2022
Achievement, Announcement

Alumna Tammy Armstrong wins 2022 Prize for Best New Fiction

October 6, 2022
Achievement, Announcement

Announcing the 2022 HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize Shortlist

September 22, 2022
Alumni, Interviews

Alum '22 Jason Emde discusses hosting Writers Read Their Early Sh*t podcast

July 27, 2022
Announcement, Faculty

UBC Creative Writing leadership changeover continues to prioritize pedagogical excellence, promotion of equity and diversity

July 11, 2022
Announcement, Faculty

Director farewell letter from Professor Alix Ohlin

July 11, 2022
Announcement

Writer and educator Noor Naga to visit UBC Creative Writing

June 29, 2022
Faculty

Redefining the undergraduate learning experience in Creative Writing

June 6, 2022
Faculty, Interviews, Publications

How girls are using social media for positive change: An interview with Creative Writing lecturer Tanya Kyi and her daughter

May 18, 2022
Alumni, Interviews

Alum '20 Jasmine Sealy discusses debut novel The Island of Forgetting

April 21, 2022
Students

Creative Writing students collaborate to celebrate National Poetry Month

April 20, 2022
Achievement, Alumni, Faculty

Several members of Creative Writing community selected as finalists for BC and Yukon Book Prizes

April 14, 2022
Announcement, Students

New books from Creative Writing alumni that expand our perspectives

April 13, 2022
Students

Creative Writing students write on urban water sustainability in connection with the City of Vancouver

March 30, 2022
Announcement

Brave New Play Rites returns in honour of Bryan Wade

March 5, 2022
Announcement

UBC Creative Writing seeks submissions for 2022 Prize for Best New Fiction

February 28, 2022
Announcement

UBC Creative Writing community mourns loss of Bryan Wade

February 11, 2022
Faculty

Nalo Hopkinson discusses her writing with the Faculty of Arts

February 2, 2022
Achievement, Faculty

Nalo Hopkinson awarded 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

January 24, 2022
Announcement, Students

Announcing our winter 2022 Visiting Writers

January 20, 2022
Announcement

Join us for our second Comics Speakers Series

January 6, 2022
Faculty, Publications

New books from Creative Writing faculty challenge conventional opinions

September 27, 2021
Announcement

Join us for our first Comics Speaker Series

September 26, 2021

UBC represents at 2021 Vancouver Writers Festival

September 26, 2021
Announcement, Students

Announcing our fall 2021 Visiting Writers

September 8, 2021
Announcement

Call for applications: The Geoffrey & Margaret Andrew Fellowship

August 31, 2021
Alumni, Interviews

Alum interview with Marie Leofeli Barlizo, MFA '13

July 27, 2021
Announcement, Faculty

UBC Creative Writing hires first tenure-track faculty member in graphic forms

July 20, 2021
Announcement, Faculty

Award-winning speculative fiction author Nalo Hopkinson joins UBC

July 7, 2021
Alumni, Interviews

Alum interview with Jessica Johns, MFA '19

June 29, 2021
Achievement, Alumni, Publications

Michelle Good wins major awards for novel Five Little Indians

June 22, 2021
Alumni, Interviews

Alum interview with Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, MFA '16

June 18, 2021
Achievement, Faculty

Creative Writing lecturer Sheryda Warrener receives UBC Killam Teaching Prize

May 31, 2021
Announcement

New Writing for Video Games certificate program begins July 5

May 27, 2021
Alumni, Interviews

Alum interview with A.W. Hopkins, MFA '20

May 5, 2021
Achievement, Alumni, Faculty

Faculty and Alumni Finalists for GG and Amazon Awards

May 4, 2021
Alumni, Interviews

Alum interview with Michael Christie, MFA '08

April 21, 2021
Achievement, Alumni, Faculty

Two faculty and five alumni finalists for 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes

April 15, 2021
Alumni, Interviews

Alum interview with Jennica Harper, MFA '00

April 12, 2021
Interviews

Alum interview with andrea bennett, MFA '12

April 1, 2021
Announcement, Faculty

Welcoming Bronwen Tate to UBC Creative Writing

November 4, 2020
Achievement, Alumni

Writers' Trust Award Winners

October 26, 2020
Faculty

Agness, Murderess, Awards Winner!

October 23, 2020
Alumni, Announcement

Winner Announcement - the 2020 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction

October 2, 2020
Achievement, Alumni, Publications, Students

Creative Writing MFA student wins inaugural University of Lethbridge Bridge Prize

September 25, 2020
Announcement

Upcoming Online MFA Information Session

September 23, 2020
Achievement, Alumni

Announcing the 2020 HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize Shortlist

September 3, 2020
Achievement, Publications, Students

Tracy Deonn’s novel “Legendborn” to be released September 15th

July 31, 2020
Achievement, Alumni

2020 National Magazine Awards Winners

June 20, 2020
Announcement, Students

Creative Writing Courses Online - Fall 2020

June 10, 2020
Announcement, Students

“The Show Must Go…Online!”: Brave New Play Rites Festival Goes Virtual

April 9, 2020
Achievement, Alumni, Publications

Michelle Good’s novel “Five Little Indians” to be released next week

April 8, 2020
Achievement, Faculty, Publications

Mallory Tater’s debut novel has just been released with HarperCollins

March 25, 2020
Achievement, Alumni, Announcement, Faculty

UBC Creative Writing Members Shortlisted for 2020 BC and Yukon Book Prizes

March 16, 2020
Faculty

Sarah Leavitt shares value of graphic medicine genre with Faculty of Medicine

January 29, 2020
In the Media

Instructor John Vigna Explores Peer Review

January 17, 2020
Students

Creative Writing students perform songs live on campus radio station

November 27, 2019
Achievement, Faculty

Ian Williams wins 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize for debut novel

November 19, 2019
Announcement

Indigenous advocate Tracey Lindberg current Writer in Residence

November 7, 2019
Students

Creative Writing undergraduate course spotlight for winter 2020

November 4, 2019
Achievement, Faculty

Keith Maillard wins Alberta Book of the Year Award

October 30, 2019
Achievement, Alumni

Creative Writing alumnus receives STORYHIVE grant for Indigenous-focused film

October 2, 2019
Achievement, Alumni, Faculty

Creative Writing faculty & alumnus finalists for Scotiabank Giller Prize

September 30, 2019

UBC represents at 2019 Vancouver Writers Festival

September 30, 2019
Achievement, Alumni, Faculty

Creative Writing affiliates longlisted for Canada’s largest literary award

September 4, 2019
Alumni, In the Media

MFA grad wins grant to make short film

August 1, 2019
Announcement

New online magazine reviews literature for teens

July 31, 2019
In the Media

Joelle Barron finalist for 2019 Dayne Ogilvie Prize

July 8, 2019
In the Media

Ellie Sawatzky finalist for 2019 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award

July 8, 2019
Students

New Shoots launches 34th anthology of teen writing and art

July 4, 2019
Achievement, Alumni

UBC Creative Writing alumni receive National Magazine Awards

June 4, 2019
Achievement, Alumni

Three alumni receive 2019 BC Book Prizes

May 13, 2019
Students

Students’ work 'magic to behold' at Hybrid Forms exhibit

April 30, 2019
Achievement, Students

MFA student Roquela Fernandez recognized for teaching excellence

April 24, 2019
In the Media

MFA alumna Meg Todd shortlisted for CBC Short Story Prize

April 23, 2019
Announcement, Faculty

Award-winning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt to join UBC’s creative writing program

April 11, 2019
Announcement

Students, faculty and alums to attend AWP

March 21, 2019
Achievement, Alumni, In the Media

8 alumni, 1 student finalists for 2019 BC Book Prizes

March 20, 2019
Faculty

Faculty reading showcases new work

March 5, 2019
Students

Brave New Play Rites brings new voices to Vancouver

March 1, 2019
Students

Jennifer Monroe Visits CRWR Screenwriters

February 1, 2019
Faculty

Alison Acheson: New Books Announced

February 1, 2019
Achievement, Alumni

Michael Orlando Joins Pacific Screenwriting Scripted Series Lab

January 3, 2019
Faculty

Sara Graefe tours for "Swelling with Pride"

November 7, 2018
Achievement, Alumni

Announcing the Winner of the 2018 HarperCollins Canada/ UBC Prize for Best New Fiction

October 25, 2018
Faculty, Publications

Maureen Medved in Toronto and Montreal

October 23, 2018
Announcement

Major (BFA) in Creative Writing: An Information Session

October 22, 2018
Achievement, Alumni

3 Alumni on Governor General’s Award Shortlist

October 9, 2018
Achievement, Alumni

Jen Neale, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist

September 26, 2018
Announcement

Creative Writing at the Vancouver Writers Fest

September 25, 2018
Alumni, Publications

Michelle Barker's House of One Thousand Eyes

September 12, 2018
Announcement

The Cascadia Project

September 10, 2018
Announcement

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions: Indigenous Writing & Creative Non-Fiction

July 26, 2018
Alumni, Announcement

Yugumalleq: A film by MFA Candidate Kavelina Torres

July 26, 2018
Alumni

Alanna Francis Leaps into Screenwriting with The Rest of Us

July 9, 2018
Announcement

2018 New Shoots Anthology Launch

July 9, 2018
Alumni, Announcement

Leah Mol wins 2018 CBC Short Story Prize

June 15, 2018
Alumni, Announcement

Congratulations to our Graduates

May 31, 2018
Alumni, Announcement

Eden Robinson Receives an Honorary Degree

May 23, 2018
Alumni, Announcement

An Interview with MFA Alumnus Ellen Keith

May 17, 2018
Alumni, Announcement

Alumni Spring Books

May 11, 2018
Announcement

2018 HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction

April 30, 2018
Announcement, Faculty

Writers in the Rereading Room

March 31, 2018
Alumni, Announcement

Writing the Future: Gallery

March 21, 2018
Announcement, Faculty

"Writing Is a Long Distance Game"- an Interview with Maureen Medved, Author of the Upcoming Novel "Black Star"

March 20, 2018
Alumni, Announcement

Congratulations to our MFA and alumni nominated for the BC Book Prizes!

March 13, 2018
Announcement

Second Annual Cold Reading Series Collaboration

March 7, 2018
Announcement

MFA's Reading Series 'Locution' hosts Indigenous Evening with Alicia Elliott and Katherena Vermette

February 18, 2018
Announcement, Faculty

MFA's Reading Series 'Locution' hosts Indigenous Evening with Alicia Elliott and Katherena Vermette

February 18, 2018
Alumni, Announcement

Alumna focus: Francine Cunningham: 'I walk around all day observing things and thinking about what ifs.'

February 8, 2018
Announcement, Faculty

Hiromi Goto Visits UBC Creative Writing Department

January 29, 2018
Announcement, Faculty

“The Impossible Uncaused Cause”- an Interview with Timothy Taylor, Author of The Rule of Stephens

January 23, 2018

Showrunners on Campus:   Tara Armstrong (CRWR BFA )  and Jennica Harper (CRWR MFA)

January 7, 2018
Faculty

A Term with Sheryda Warrener- Winner of the Thomas Mortan Memorial Prize

December 8, 2017
Alumni

BFA Alumna Fatima Zehra Naqvi Selected Rhodes Scholar 2018

December 6, 2017
Alumni

MFA Alessandra Naccarato wins CBC Poetry Prize

November 22, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

MFA Alumna Eden Robinson Wins $50,000 Writer's Trust Fellowship

November 8, 2017
Alumni

Alumni Nominations for the International Dublin Literary Award Longlist

November 8, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

Marcus Youssef wins Siminovitch Prize

November 7, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

‘Protect your voice’- An Interview with Carleigh Baker, Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Nominee

November 2, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

Alumna Oana Avasilichioaei Wins Governor General's Literary Award for Translation

November 1, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

‘I like to get to the guts of my characters.’ - An interview with Eden Robinson, nominee for the Giller Fiction Prize 2017

October 26, 2017
Announcement

'I Write About Things I Can't Explain' - An Interview with Marcus Youssef, Shortlisted for the Siminovitch Prize

October 19, 2017
Announcement

STORYHIVE Awards $10,000 Grant to MFA Students

October 17, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

More Awards and Nominations for UBC Creative Writing Students, Alumni and Faculty

October 12, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

Eden Robinson, MFA Alumna, Shortlisted for Giller Prize

October 3, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

MFA Awards and Nominations

September 28, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

Marcus Youssef nominated for Siminovitch Prize

September 28, 2017
Announcement

Announcing the Fall 2017 Arnold & Nancy Cliff Visiting Writers

September 26, 2017
Announcement

Harvest Love premieres this weekend

September 25, 2017
Announcement

Alicia Elliott is the 2017-2018 Geoffrey and Margaret Andrew Fellow

September 7, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

Congratulations to Andrew Gray and J.S. Herbison

July 14, 2017
Announcement

Welcome John Vigna

June 26, 2017
Announcement

Alix Ohlin named new chair of creative writing program

June 20, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

Jordan Abel wins Griffin Prize for Poetry

June 10, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

Katherena Vermette wins $40,000 Amazon.ca First Novel Award

June 10, 2017
Announcement

The Geoffrey & Margaret Andrew Fellowship in Creative & Performing Arts

May 30, 2017
Announcement

Summer Professional Development Day

April 19, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

In Conversation with Alumnus Michael Harris

March 28, 2017
Announcement

Brave New Playrites 2017

March 21, 2017
Announcement

Remembering Jan de Bruyn

March 13, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

BC Book Prize Finalists

March 7, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

Mary Kills People

January 25, 2017
Alumni, Announcement

Cardinal

January 25, 2017
Announcement

Less than a month to go: MFA application deadline approaches

December 13, 2016
Announcement

Creative Writing professors go global with a course for aspiring novelists

December 12, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Agents Tips, Tricks and Know-How: Professional Development Day!

November 18, 2016
Announcement

Congratulations 2016 Grads!

November 16, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Eden Robinson and PRISM win Writers' Trust Awards

November 3, 2016
Announcement

Deborah Campbell wins Weston Prize

November 3, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Faculty & Alumni at the Vancouver Writers Festival

October 17, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Mary Kills People - Tara Armstrong

October 14, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Justin Neal's LNG

October 7, 2016
Announcement

Welcoming Our Newest Faculty

October 5, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

2016 Governor General's Awards

October 4, 2016
Announcement

Deborah Campbell Shortlisted for Hilary Weston Prize

September 28, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Wendy Bone's Sanctuary at Last

September 21, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalists

September 21, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Alumni Successes

September 13, 2016
Announcement

How to Write a Novel: Structure & Outline

September 1, 2016
Alumni

The Devourers, by Indra Das

August 29, 2016
Announcement

Welcoming Our Newest Instructors

July 14, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Alumnus Book Publication

July 14, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Celebrating Alumni Successes

June 8, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Sierra Skye Gemma wins National Newspaper Award

May 31, 2016
Announcement

Congratulations 2016 Graduates

May 25, 2016
Announcement

2016 HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction

May 19, 2016
Alumni

Prairie Fire Creative Nonfiction Contest

May 18, 2016
Alumni

Zsuzsi Gartner in Ireland

May 18, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

BC Book Prizes 2016

May 18, 2016
Announcement

CLASS of 2016: On Stage!

May 12, 2016
Alumni

Amy Stuart, Bestseller

May 3, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

39th Annual National Magazine Awards Nominees

May 3, 2016
Alumni

Irina Kovalyova shortlisted for Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

April 19, 2016
Alumni

Michelle Good selected for Best Canadian Poetry

April 19, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Karim Alrawi finalist for First Novel Award

April 18, 2016
Announcement

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions

April 12, 2016

How to Take Your Work to the Next Level and Get Published

April 6, 2016
Alumni

Alumni on CBC Short Story Awards Long List

April 5, 2016
Announcement

Lecturer Positions

March 14, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Faculty & Alumni Nominations for BC Book Prizes

March 9, 2016
Announcement

Comedic Forms Position

March 8, 2016
Announcement

Brave New Play Rites Festival

February 24, 2016
Announcement

Andreas Schroeder: Tips for Finishing Your Novel

February 24, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Creative Writing Alumna Signs Major Book Deal

February 9, 2016
Alumni, Announcement

Tara Armstrong's TV Series Greenlit by Global TV

January 29, 2016
Announcement

Prism International Contests extended

January 28, 2016
Announcement

Doug Bankson: In Memoriam

January 19, 2016
Announcement

edX Course: Novel Outlining Starts January 20th

January 12, 2016
Announcement

Rave Reviews for Charles Demers' Pantomime

December 10, 2015
Announcement

New Media Assignment Goes Viral

December 1, 2015
Announcement

Natalie Morrill wins HarperCollinsPublishers/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction

November 16, 2015
Alumni, Announcement

Deirdre Dore wins Journey Prize

November 3, 2015
Announcement

Shortlist for HarperCollinsPublishers/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction

September 23, 2015
Alumni

Event Magazine Non-Fiction Shortlist

August 28, 2015
Alumni

Marie Powell's New Book

August 28, 2015
Announcement

Book of Sands

August 28, 2015
Announcement

MFA Applications Open for 2016 Academic Year

July 27, 2015
Alumni

Elle Wild's Novel to be Published

June 12, 2015
Alumni

Alex Leslie Wins Dayne Ogilvie Prize

June 10, 2015
Announcement

Writer in Residence Miriam Toews Interviewed

June 5, 2015
Alumni, Announcement

C.C Humphreys wins Arthur Ellis Award

June 5, 2015
Alumni, Announcement

Shaelyn Johnston Wins Historica Canada's Aboriginal Arts & Stories contest

June 5, 2015
Announcement

Alessandra Naccarato Wins Bronwen Wallace Award

May 6, 2015
Announcement

Maggie de Vries Wins BC Book Prize

April 27, 2015
Announcement

Arthur Ellis Awards Shortlist

April 24, 2015
Alumni

Indra Das's debut novel published in India

April 23, 2015
Alumni

Elena Johnson's first book of poetry published.

April 23, 2015
Announcement

2015 HarperCollinsPublishersLtd / UBC Prize for Best New Fiction

April 23, 2015
Alumni

Tim Carlson's play Foreign Radical premieres

April 16, 2015
Alumni

League of Canadian Poets finalists

April 5, 2015
Alumni

Arc 2015 Poem of the Year Shortlist

March 24, 2015
Announcement

UBC Creative Writing Award at Vancouver International Women's Film Festival

March 24, 2015
Alumni

Wren Handman Book Launch

March 24, 2015
Alumni

BC Book Prize Shortlist

March 12, 2015
Announcement

Vancouver's Literary Landmarks

March 12, 2015
Announcement

Ngwatilo Mawiyoo Shortlisted for Brunel University African Poetry Prize

March 9, 2015
Announcement

Maggie de Vries Shortlisted for Young Adult Book Award

March 6, 2015
Announcement

Miriam Toews Shortlisted for Folio Prize

February 9, 2015
Alumni

Ruth Daniell wins 2014 Young Buck Poetry Prize

January 27, 2015
Alumni

10 Post-It Notes: My Career in TV with Andrew Wreggitt

January 26, 2015
Alumni

Michelle Glennie's Play "Keep Me Dreaming" Featured.

January 15, 2015
Alumni

Malahat Review Interviews Jason Markowsky

January 12, 2015
Alumni

Sarah Selecky's Short Story is now a Film

January 7, 2015
Alumni

Alumni nominated for Pushcart Prize

January 7, 2015
Announcement

MFA Application Deadline: December 5, 2014

November 19, 2014
Announcement

Announcing the Winner of the 2014 HarperCollinsCanada/UBC Prize

October 30, 2014
Alumni

Vancouver Poet Laureate

October 1, 2014
Alumni, Announcement

Writers' Trust & Journey Prize Shortlists

October 1, 2014
Announcement

Shortlist for HarperCollinsCanada/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction

September 30, 2014
Alumni, Announcement

Student and Alumni Nominations & Awards

September 9, 2014
Announcement

On-Campus MFA Applications Open

August 26, 2014
Announcement

Optional Residency MFA Applications Open

August 13, 2014
Alumni

MFA Student Chosen for Best New Poets 2014

July 29, 2014
Alumni

BFA Alumni wins Malahat Far Horizons Award

July 17, 2014
Alumni

MFA Student Sells Novel to Penguin

July 2, 2014
Alumni

Undergraduate Radio Play Contest Winner

June 24, 2014
Announcement

Undergraduate Creative Writing Courses

June 18, 2014
Alumni

The Concessions by Briana Brown

June 12, 2014
Announcement

Two Griffin Prize Winners in Residence

June 8, 2014
Alumni

Jill Sexsmith Wins Writers' Union Contest

May 28, 2014
Announcement

HarperCollinsCanada/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction

May 7, 2014
Announcement

Wayne Grady Wins Amazon.ca First Novel Award

May 5, 2014
Announcement

BC Book Prize Shortlist

March 12, 2014
Announcement

The National Post on CRWR's 50th Anniversary

March 7, 2014
Announcement

Joseph Boyden Wins Canada Reads

March 7, 2014
Alumni

Anneliese Schultz

February 12, 2014
Alumni

Jamella Hagen

January 22, 2014
Announcement

Charles Demers and the Pantomime

December 2, 2013
Announcement

Katherena Vermette Wins Governor General's Award for Poetry

November 13, 2013
Announcement

Karim Alrawi wins HarperCollinsCanada/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction.

November 12, 2013
Announcement

Congratulations to Lynn Coady

November 12, 2013
Announcement

New CRWR Courses Added!

November 4, 2013
Announcement

Writing Prize Finalists Announced

October 31, 2013
Announcement

Faculty & Students on GG Shortlist

October 3, 2013
Announcement

HarperCollinsCanada, Cooke Agency, UBC launch annual fiction prize

October 2, 2013
Announcement

Congratulations to Giller Longlisted Faculty & Alumni

September 16, 2013
Announcement

Joseph Boyden in the National Post

September 6, 2013
Announcement

The Giller Prize Goes West

August 27, 2013
Announcement

Celebrated Canadian authors join UBC Creative Writing

August 27, 2013
Announcement

Penguin Random House Canada and UBC Creative Writing Partner on New Scholarships and Writing Course

August 26, 2013
Announcement

50th Anniversary

August 15, 2013
Announcement

Welcoming New Faculty

June 20, 2013
Announcement

Christine Fellows & John K. Samson Performance

February 1, 2013