Faculty reading showcases new work



The UBC Creative Writing Program invites you to join our talented faculty for a reading, book signing and reception in celebration of their new work.

Everyone is welcome to attend on March 20 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm in the Koerner Library Foyer.

Visit the event listing for full details. 

Alison Acheson
A Little House in a Big Place

A Little House in a Big Place is Alison Acheson’s 10th published work, and she will be sharing it with school-children in Quebec for Canadian Children’s Book Centre Book Week (sponsored by TD Bank) in May 2019. In the fall, her memoir of care-giving her spouse through ALS, Dance Me to the End, will be published with Brindle & Glass. She has taught in the UBC Creative Writing program since 1998.

Sara Graefe
Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories

Sara Graefe is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in various publications, including Literary Mama, Walk Myself Home, Boobs, and A Family By Any Other Name(finalist for a 2015 Lambda Literary Award). She is editor of the groundbreaking new creative nonfiction collection Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories, which “came out” in the fall from Dagger Editions at Caitlin Press. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre from UBC and is currently on faculty in the Creative Writing Program.

Tariq Hussain
Telegrams

Tariq is a Juno nominated songwriter and recording artist with a music career that spans over two decades. He is also a member of the critically acclaimed Vancouver band, Brasstronaut. The songs on Tariq’s latest solo offering feel a bit like short stories, hence the title, Telegrams (2019)—brief glimpses into fictional lives. Tariq is also a nonfiction writer and his essays on song-craft have appeared in the Walrus. He is currently working on a memoir about growing up as a first generation Canadian kid who dreams of playing in a rock n’ roll band. Tariq teaches lyric writing in the Creative Writing Program at UBC in Vancouver. www.tariqmusiq.com

Keith Maillard
Twin Studies

Keith Maillard is the author of fourteen novels. Light in the Company of Womenwas a runner-up for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; Motetwon that prize. Hazard Zoneswas short-listed for the Commonwealth Literary Prize and Gloriashort-listed for the Governor General’s Award. The Clarinet Polkawas awarded the Creative Arts Prize by the Polish American Historical Association. Maillard has been honoured by the West Virginia Library Association and by his hometown of Wheeling, West Virginia, where he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.

He has published numerous articles, essays, and critical studies in journals ranging from Contemporary Literary Criticismto Flare. His poetry collection, Dementia Americana, won the Gerald Lampert Award for the best first book of poetry published in Canada. His most recent poetry may be found in The Best of Canadian Poetry in English, 2008 (Tightrope Books). He has worked extensively in radio, first at WBUR in Boston and then as a freelancer for the CBC, contributing to This Country in the Morning, Five Nights,Our Native Land, and Ideas.

Maillard latest novel, Twin Studies, was published by Freehand Books in the fall of 2018. For more information about Keith, please visit his website:keithmaillard.com

Ian Williams
Reproduction

Ian Williams is the author of two collections of poetry, a short story collection, and a novel. He is a trustee for the Griffin Poetry Prize, as well as a former finalist for Personals and a judge in 2017-2018. His story collection won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada.Reproduction is his first novel. He teaches poetry at UBC.