The UBC Creative Writing Program will have a large presence at the 2019 AWP Conference in Portland, Oregon. AWP brings together over 12,000 writers, teachers, students, editors and publishers to discuss and celebrate writing.
Visit our Bookfair Booth 3018 to meet UBC Creative Writing faculty, staff and the editors of PRISM international.
PANELS
As a major sponsor of the event, UBC Creative Writing is pleased to share the panels hosted by its students, faculty and alums:
THURSDAY, MARCH 28
- 9:00 am to 10:15 am
R117. Indigenous Fiction: Intersections in the United States & Canada
Erika Wurth, Eden Robinson (Alum), Carol Lindstrom, Daniel Justice, Alicia Elliott - 10:30am to 11:45am
R175. Assimilate This!: Queer Literary Community as Sites of Mobilizing & Resistance
Sassafras Lowrey, Michelle Tea, Tania De Rozario (MFA), Lori Horvitz, Mike McClelland
F152. Teaching Comics in Creative Writing Programs: Why and How?
Sarah Leavitt (Faculty), Jennifer Murvin, Sandy Longhorn - 1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Bookfair Stage. North of the 49th: Roles, Responsibilities and Relations in Creative Writing
John Vigna (Faculty), Larissa Lai, Napatsi Folger (MFA), Jasmine Sealy (MFA), Shymala Parthasarathy (MFA), Trynne Delaney
R221. Poets Out of Place
Elizabeth Senja Spackman, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo (Alum), Ketty Nivyabandi, Maria Fernanda Snellings
R239. Playwriting in the Pacific Northwest: Unique Region, Unique Craft 2.0
Bryan Wade (Faculty), Ramon Esquivel (Alum), Cathy Rexford (MFA), Ellen M. Lewis - 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
R254. Matter of Craft: Aesthetic Choices & Consequences in Diaspora Narratives
Nandi Odhiambo, Ranjan Adiga, Anna Ling Kaye (Alum), Leanne Dunic (MFA), Khaty Xiong
R261. Power, Privilege and Progress: #MeToo and the Impact on Film and Media
Kavelina Torres (MFA), Andi Zeisler, Dorothy Woodend, Maureen Medved (Faculty), Maureen Bradley (Alum)
R276. Listen, Disrupt, Collide: Generative Approaches to the Writing Workshop
Sheryda Warrener (Faculty), Ian Williams (Faculty), Hoa Nguyen, Heather Jessup, Jen Currin (Faculty)
FRIDAY, MARCH 29
- 9:00 am to 10:15 am
F143. The Coast Is Queer: LGBTQ+ Voices from the Pacific Northwest
Sara Graefe (Faculty), Ramon Esquivel (Alum), Kate Gray, Michael V. Smith (Alum), Carol Guess - 4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
F289. Teaching Between Journalism & Literature in Creative Nonfiction
Kevin Chong (Faculty), Deborah Campbell (Alum), Andrew Westoll (Alum), Jane Silcott (Alum), Aislinn Hunter (Alum)
SATURDAY, MARCH 30
- 10:30 am to 11:45 am
S173. Virtual Pathways: Publishing, Editing, and Writing Millennial Fiction & Poetics
Shazia Hafiz Ramji (MFA), Ashley Opheim, Guillaume Morissette, Jasper Avery, Leigh Nash - 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
S201. Centering the Othered: Embracing Speculative Literature in Writing Classrooms
Emily Pohl-Weary (Faculty), Nalo Hopkinson, Larissa Lai, Elizabeth Leung, Amber Dawn (Faculty) - 1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
S224. Not Sorry: Five Canadian Poets
Kayla Czaga (Alum), Ali Blythe, Ben Ladouceur, Jordan Abel (Alum), Sheryda Warrener (Faculty)
In addition to panel sessions, UBC Creative Writing, in collaboration with UBCO Creative Writing, is hosting a reception at AWP for all its students, faculty and alums on Thursday, March 28 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in the Weidler Room of the Portland DoubleTree, located on Level 1.
For full conference details, visit the AWP conference website.
