UBC Creative Writing Program
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Congratulations to MFA alumni Jessica Johns and Leah Mol for their awards in the Emerging Writer category from the Writers' Trust of Canada. Jessica won the 2020 Journey Prize for her story "Bad Cree," and Leah won the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for her story "Six Things My Father Taught Me About Bears." https://creativewriting.ubc.ca//writers-trust-award-winne/

Congratulations to our MFA student Shaelyn Johnston, who has been selected for Whistler Film Festival's Indigenous Filmmaker Fellowship! https://whistlerfilmfestival.com/here-comes-talent/

Aspiring filmmakers! One week left to apply to Crazy8s 2021.

Calling all short filmmakers! We're proud to support the award-winning short film program Crazy8s as they launch their 22nd year. Make your short film and showcase it to the BC film and television industry! Apply online until Oct 28 at http://crazy8s.film And join the Crazy8s 2021 Pitching Workshop online October 18. FB Event: https://fb.me/e/1wroVPOEN #Crazy8sFilms21

Free comics workshops! Izzy Laird, CRWR alumna, is the festival director of the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival: they're hosting a series of free online workshops taught by cartoonists, including a recent UBC CRWR grad, Tania De Rozario. More information here: http://www2.vancaf.com/workshops/

Looking for your next career opportunity? We're hiring! We are currently seeking applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions: Graphic Forms and Speculative Fiction. Both positions start July 1, 2020. Applications open now and we will start reviewing them November 30th. See our website for more position details and the application form. https://creativewriting.ubc.ca/about/job-opportunities/

We’re pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction is Jasmine Sealy for A Fair Wind to Take You Home. The two runner-up titles are Ursula, by Tammy Armstrong, and Gladys Owen, by Clea Roberts. https://creativewriting.ubc.ca//winner-announcement-the-2/

Congratulations to MFA alum Brent van Staalduinen on the book birthday and impending launch of his new novel "BOY"!

Interested in learning more about UBC Creative Writing’s MFA Program? Please join us online on Tuesday, October 13 at 3PM Vancouver time for a live information session and the chance to ask questions of faculty, current students, and alumni. Follow the link to register for this free event. https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5pzQYGdYOZx8JU1

Congratulations to MFA student Sara de Waal, winner of the inaugural University of Lethbridge Bridge Prize national short story writing competition earning a $7,500 first-place award from a pool of 340 story submissions for her story "Cecilia and Richard". Congratulations also to MFA alum Danny Ramadan, winner of a $1000 finalist award in the same competition for his story "The Miraculous Return of Khaled from the Dead." https://www.uleth.ca/liberal-educ/2020-bridge-prize-winners

Congratulations to MFA alumna Michelle Good and Professor Annabel Lyon - both included in this year's Giller Prize Longlist for their novels "Five Little Indians" and "Consent". http://scotiabankgillerprize.ca/the-scotiabank-giller-priz/

We’re delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2020 HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize. Tammy Armstrong: URSULA Clea Roberts: GLADYS OWENS Jasmine Sealy: A FAIR WIND TO TAKE YOU HOME... The winner will be announced later this fall. The HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction is open to all UBC Creative Writing students and alumni. It is awarded bi-annually. The next opportunity will be in 2022. Click through to read more about the shortlisted authors and the contest. https://creativewriting.ubc.ca//announcing-the-2020-harpe/

Congratulations to MFA Alumna Jessica Johns, a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize for her story "Bad Cree", published in Grain Magazine. The winner of the $10,000 prize will be announced on Oct 21 via the Digital Writers' Trust Awards: Emerging Writers Edition. https://www.writerstrust.com//writers-trust-mcclelland-ste

Congratulations to our BFA student Chimedum Ohaegbu (managing editor) and her colleagues for winning the Hugo Award for best Semiprozine for Uncanny Magazine! https://www.tor.com//announcing-the-2020-hugo-award-winne/

Congratulations to our MFA alumna Michelle Good, her novel is on the fiction bestseller list! Michelle was also the winner of our 2018 HarperCollins UBC prize for Best New Fiction and earned her MFA in Creative Writing while practising law. is a story about five children who went through residential schools and after their release are striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn’t want them. Similar to ...’ , the plot discusses child stealing, but this story is based on real child stealing that occurred in Canada, providing an accurate depiction of what happened to indigenous people during this time. Michelle Good's is available here: https://www.harpercollins.ca/978144345/five-little-indians/ https://www.cbc.ca//the-bestselling-canadian-books-for-the CBC Books | University of British Columbia | UBC Faculty of Arts #Books #Awards