Current MFA, Rebekah Lopata's play What if I Don't will be presented at the third annual award-winning EBE Ensemble, festival of new one act plays in New York.
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Creative Writing students dominate the StudentWrites! Playwriting Competition 2009. Gillian Bennett took home first prize in the competition for her play 'Sick or Swim', while Brie Wittman and Shannon Campbell took home the second and third prize.
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MFA Creative Writing alumna, Elena Johnson, makes the shortlist for the Malahat Open Season Awards and the ARC Poem of the Year Contest.

Creative Writing Optional Residency MFA Student, Daniel Griffin, is a 2009 Finalist for the Journey Prize"
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Producer Michael Parker plans to use Comic Con award scholarship to obtain a Masters of Fine Arts in Film Production and Creative Writing degree at UBC.
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Creative Writing Arnold and Nancy Cliff Writer in Residence: Steven Galloway.
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Kazat Poet in Residence at the Historic Joy KogawaHouse: 21 year old Akerke Mussabekova is a third-year student in the translation department at al-Farabi Kazakh National University, the country's largest and premier university, situated in Almaty. She is being hosted by Historic Joy Kogawa House and funded by the HSBC Poet in the City cultural exchange program.

UBC's Creative Writing Program is sad to note the passing of poet and MFA Creative Writing alumna Kuldip Gill on Sunday, May 10, 2009. Her poetry has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies such as In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry and Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets.
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UBC MFA in Creative Writing alumni Robert Paul Weston’s book, Zorgamazoo, named one of the Top 10 First Novels for Youth: 2008.
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After a successful launch this past fall, the UBC Alumni Book Club is back for 2009.
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Creative Writing MFA Alumna, Clea Young was recently nominated for the $10,000 McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize for her short story Chaperone, published in Grain Magazine. This prize recognizes excellence in an emerging writer who has published a short story from an in-progress novel in a Canadian literary journal.
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Creative Writing MFA alumnus, Lee Henderson, received a nomination for the 2008 Writers’ Trust Awards for his novel The Man Game. Henderson, who will be competing with award winning authors for this $25,000 fiction prize won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for The Broken Record Technique.
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Short story, “The Riot and a Girl” written by University of British Columbia MFA Creative Writing alumna Tsering Lama, was nominated by the Malahat Review to be published in The Journey Prize Stories 20, an anthology that showcases the best of Canada’s new writers.
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Former Creative Writing Writer in Residence, Miriam Toews receives a nomination for the 2008 Writers’ Trust Awards for her novel The Flying Troutmans. Towes, who will be competing with award winning authors for this $25,000 fiction prize won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2004 for her novel A Complicated Kindness.
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Elena E. Johnson, MFA Creative Writing student, celebrates as her poem is published in the anthology Rocksalt – Contemporary Poets of British Columbia as well as an honorable mention in THIS magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt (2008).
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UBC's Creative Writing Program is sad to note the passing of Ted Rogers, President and CEO of Rogers Communications, a company that has supported our work in Creative Writing.

Creative Writing Instructor, Deborah Campbell takes gold at the 33rd Annual National Magazine Awards.
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Graduated: 1993 | Website

Cecilia Araneda is an award-winning independent film-maker, whose short films have been selected for screening at film festivals and artist-run cinemas across Canada and around the world. She additionally curates film programs and teaches film-making workshops at the artist-run Winnipeg Film Group. Araneda is presently completing her first novel, The Ocean, with the support of the Manitoba Arts Council. Araneda presenty lives in Winnipeg.

Graduated: 2000 | Website: none

Tammy Armstrong's writing has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies in Canada, US and UK. She is the receipient of the New Brunswick Writers Federation Alfred G Bailey Prize, David Adams Richards Prize and placed 3rd in the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Award. Her poetry was performed at the National Art Gallery, 2000. Her first collection of poetry is Bogman & Music (Anvil Press 2001). Her first novel is Translations: Aistreann, (Coteau Books 2002). She is currently working on a new novel.

Graduated: MFA | Website: www.geocities.com/barroncraig

Craig Barron's play Men Like Trees was performed in January 2008 at the Betty Oliphant Theatre, National Ballet School in Toronto; it has had prior productions in Vancouver, and in the Cultural Program at the 2006 International AIDS conference in Toronto.

Craig's publications include: short fiction in Front&Centre, Event, Lichen, The Church-Wellesley Review, and the anthology The Air Between Us; a short play in Brave New Play Rites. His non-fiction has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Fugue and Xtra West.

Craig was managing editor of Vancouver'sG Gaze magazine and his abstract, Gaze: an assets-based publication for gay men, was accepted at the AIDS 2008 conference in Mexico City.

Craig wrote the initial five episodes of the ongoing YouTube based animation series, Vick Vancouver.

Graduated: MFA | Website: www.andrewbinks.ca

Andrew Binks received in his MFA in Spring 2007. He is a finalist in the Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Contest and This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt. His fiction, non-fiction, and poetry has appeared in Galleon, Prism International, Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly, Bent Magazine, the Globe and Mail, Xtra, Queen's Alumni Review, Quill's lust issue, and the Velvet Avalanche poetry anthology. In 2008 he spoke on behalf of UBC at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in New York City, on the challenges and benefits of multi-genre creative writing programs. After fifteen years in Vancouver, he has returned to Ontario. The Summer Between, Andrew's first novel, will be published by Nightwood Editions in the Spring of 2009.

Book Reviews:

• xtra.ca
• threedollarbillreviews.com

Graduated: 1994 | Website: none

Stephanie Bolster's first book of poetry, White Stone: The Alice Poems (Signal/V'shicule, 1998), won the Governor General's Award, as well as the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry. Her second book, Two Bowls of Milk (McClelland & Stewart, 1999), won the Archibald Lampman Award and was shortlisted for Ontario's Trillium Award. A third collection, Pavilion, is forthcoming from M&S in spring 2002. Born in Vancouver and raised in Burnaby, she holds a B.F.A. (1991) and an M.F.A. (1994) from the University of B.C.'s Creative Writing Programme and now lives in Montreal, where she teaches creative writing at Concordia University. She has also taught at the University of Toronto's Taddle Creek workshop and at Booming Ground.

Graduated: 1998 | Website: no

Robyn Burnett graduated in 1998 and has since been writing in a variety of genres. She is the author of Crash Into Me: The World of Roswell, and co-author of A Chance for Life: The Suzanne Giroux Story, Q Mack: Dare to be Different, and most recently, A Journey of Spiritual Awakening with psychic Judy Brown; all for ECW Press in Toronto. In 2003, she sold her screenplay Seeking Hyde to Edge Entertainment, and is currently working on a television movie for Reel Pictures. She is also co-writing Uncovering Alias: An Unofficial Guide to the show with author Nikki Stafford.

Graduated: 2002 | Website

Aaron Bushkowsky, a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre, has been produced and published in several genres. His book of poetry, ed and mabel go to the moon (Oolichan Books, 1994) was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award, while his latest book, Mars is for Poems (Oolichan Books, 2002), garnered critical acclaim. His short film, The Alley, which won the National Screen Institute drama prize, was nominated for six Leos. His plays, which include the award-winning Strangers Among Us (Canada Playwrights Press, 1999) have been produced throughout Canada. He has also been nominated for Jessie Theatre Awards for Outstanding Original Play for five years in a row, winning two. Aaron has served as playwright-in-residence at Touchstone, The Playhouse and Rumble Theatre. He has a new book of prose upcoming, The Vanishing Man (Cormorant Books, 2004) and a new play, One Last Kiss, to be produced at Victoria's Belfry Theatre and at The Vancouver Playhouse in 2003/04. Aaron also teaches playwriting and filmwriting at Langara College's Studio 58 and the Vancouver Film School, and is the co-artistic director of Solo Collective, an emerging award-winning theatre company in Vancouver.

Tim Carlson is the artistic producer of Theatre Conspiracy in Vancouver, B.C.

His plays include: Omniscience (Vancouver, Berlin, Magdeberg, Lisbon, Chicago; published by Talonbooks 2007); Diplomacy (Vancouver, Talonbooks 2009); and the one-act newsroom comedies Night Desk (2001) and The Chronicle has Hart (2000).

Tim recently co-created Conspiracy's Live From the Bush of Ghosts, which premiered at the 2009 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver.

He is developing the newsroom comedy A Liar's Guide to Non-fiction as an artist-in-residence at the Vancouver Playhouse and is dramaturg for Berlin-based Rimini Protokol1 as they develop a new work in Vancouver in 2010.

As an arts writer and editor Carlson has for the Vancouver Sun and Halifax Daily News and has also written regularly for the Georgia Straight, Globe and Mail and Vancouver Review.

He graduated with an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia in 2009.

Graduated: | Website: none

Since graduating from the undergratuate UBC Creative Writing program, Kevin Chong received an MFA at Columbia University and published a novel, Baroque-a-Nova (Penguin Canada), in 2001.

Graduated: MFA, 2005

Andrea Dancer is a trans-disciplinary poet, radio documentarian, soundscape artist and doctoral student. With an MFA in poetry and radio documentary feature production, she is currently completing a Ph.D at UBC's Centre for Cross Faculty Inquiry. Her writing is published in literary and scholarly journals such as Canadian Literature, Qualitative Inquiry, Art Education across disciplines such as acoustic ecology, sociology and poetic research. Her features aired on CBC's Ideas, NPR, and internationally (Prague Radio Vltava, Radio Koln, BBC 3); her multimedia soundscape performances at the Deep Wireless Radio Art festival (Toronto) and WFAE Conference (Mexico). She is a board member of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology and World Forum of Acoustic Ecology. She lives between the Gulf Islands, Green College, and the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands.

website: http://andreadancer.wordpress.com

Graduated: 1998 | Website

Kelli Deeth's acclaimed short-story collection, The Girl Without Anyone (HarperCollins, 2001), was chosen as one of The Globe and Mail's top 100 books of the year. Kelli Deeth teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto.

"I love Leah, this girl without anyone. Such a smart, hard view of the world. Like Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy, she is sexual and cruel and lost and then found and then lost again. Great writing. A wonderful book."
--David Bergen

"How does Kelli Deeth do this? Make me love my own childrenѣhildren- more fiercely? God bless Leah, the cellophane heart beating at the centre of the unsparing, sometimes shocking Girl Without Anyone.
--Linda Svendsen

"A fascinating and genre-busting first book.
--The Globe and Mail

"Powerfully told in concise bang-on prose. This writing is an unusual combination of Gen X and Hemmingway.
--The National Post

"A powerful little book"
--The Toronto Star

Graduated: 2007 | Website

Rachelle Delaney is a children’s author, freelance writer, and creative writing teacher. Born in Edmonton and currently living in Vancouver, she holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. In June 2010, Rachelle was awarded the Canadian Author’s Association 2010 Emerging Writer Award, and her first novel, The Ship of Lost Souls, was a finalist for a 2010 BC Book Prize. Its sequel, The Lost Souls of Island X, has just been released.

Publications: The Ship of Lost Souls (HarperCollins Canada, 2009)
The Lost Souls of Island X (HarperCollins Canada, 2010)

Graduated: 1996 | Website: none

Marilyn Dumont is of Cree/Metis ancestry. Since 1985, Marilyn has published in numerous Canadian literary journals, and her work has been widely anthologized as well as broadcast on radio and television. Her first collection won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, presented by the League of Canadian Poets, for the best first collection of poetry by a Canadian writer. Marilyn has been a Creative Writing instructor at Simon Fraser University and Kwantlen University-College in Vancouver. She has also worked in video production as an intern with the National Film Board. Marilyn holds a Master's of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia. Her recent collection is entitled, green girl dreams Mountains and is published by Oolichan Books. She was the 2000/01 Writer-In-Residence at the University of Alberta.

Graduated: 1999 | Website: none

Patti Flather, born and raised in North Vancouver suburbia, now calls the Yukon home.. She began as a journalist in Vancouver, Hong Kong and the North, before Whitehorse's dynamic theatre community sucked her in. Her playwriting, short fiction and screenplays plays explore permutations of identity and relationships -- cross-cultural and otherwise. She is also co-artistic director of Gwaandak Theatre Adventures.

Productions include Sixty Below which was nominated for seven Dora Mavor Moore awards and played in Toronto and in the Yukon and N.W.T. Publications include work in Prairie Fire, dANDelion, Playwrights Canada Press, Going it Alone and a chapbook of Sixty Below published by Playwrights Canada Press.

Graduated: | Website: no

Pam Galloway was born in northern England and came to B.C. in 1980. Her articles and essays have been published in newspapers and small magazines. Both her poetry and non-fiction have been featured on CBC radio. She most often reads her poetry in the Vancouver area with the group of poets, Quintet. Their book: Quintet: Themes and Variations was published by Ekstasis Editions in April, 1998. Her poetry has been published in numerous Canadian literary magazines including TickleAce, Antigonish Review, The New Quarterly and most recently in Grain, Descant and Event. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC.

Graduated: 1993 | Website: none

Zsuzsi Gartner is the author of the short story collection, All the Anxious Girls on Earth, (Key Porter, 1999, Anchor/Random House, 2000), and has recently had fiction published in Toronto Life, Saturday Night, and the anthologies Write Turns (Raincoast) and Islands West (Oolichan). Zsuzsi is also an award-winning journalist who has worked as a senior editor at Saturday Night magazine, books editor at The Georgia Straight, and as a newspaper reporter and a current affairs TV producer. She's currently a contributing reviewer for the Globe & Mail and has been on the faculty of the Banff Centre's Wired Writing Studio, Malaspina University-College, the B.C. Festival of the Arts, and UBC's creative writing department. She lives in Vancouver.

Graduated: 2002 | Website

C. E. Gatchalian is a playwright, fiction writer, poet, editor, and teacher based in Vancouver. An alumnus of the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing program (BFA, 1996; MFA, 2002), he is the author of three books: Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays (2003), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; a chapbook of poetry, tor/sion (2005); and Broken, a suite of one-act plays. The recipient of the 2005 Gordon Armstrong Playwrights Rent Award, awarded annually to a BC playwright of merit, he has been Playwright-in-Residence at the Firehall Arts Centre, Artist-in-Residence at the University of British Columbia, and resident writer at the Berton House Writers Retreat in Dawson City, YT. His work has been produced on stages in both Vancouver and Toronto, as well as radio (CBC) and television (the Bravo! Channel).

Graduated: 2001 | Website: none

While completing her MFA in Creative Writing (2000-1) Tara Gereaux was the recipient of the William Rea Screenwriting Fellowship and the CBC Jim Burt Screenwriting Prize.

After graduation, Tara became a writer and story editor on CBC's teen drama series EDGEMONT III-V (an episode she co-wrote received a Leo nomination in 2005). She went on to work on CTV's adult dramedy series ROBSON ARMS I as a story consultant.

Her feature, SIZE OF A FIST, is in development with Creative Engine Pictures and has been funded by BC Film, Telefilm and MovieCentral.

Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in several Canadian literary journals, and her creative non-fiction won Event's 14th annual competition and was a finalist in Pagitica's 2004 competition.

Graduated: | Website

Sara Graefe is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, fiction writer, and sometimes poet. Her stage plays--which include Sadly as I Tie My Shoes, Scribbles, Dreamspyre, and Yellow on Thursdays --have been produced as far afield as Ottawa's National Arts Centre, Yukon's Nakai Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She recently spent a year as a writer resident at Norman Jewison's prestigious Canadian Film Centre in Toronto. Now back in Vancouver, she's currently a writer and story editor for Edgemont, CBC-TV's teen series. Sara is a member of the Writers Guild of Canada, the Playwrights Union of Canada, and the Seven Sisters Writing Group.

Graduated: 1996 | Website: none

Andrew Gray's stories and poetry have appeared in numerous literary publications, including Prairie Fire, Event, Grain, Fiddlehead and Chatelaine. He was nominated for the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2000 and has twice been shortlisted for the CBC/Saturday Night Literary Award. He was a finalist for the 2000 Journey Prize for his short story "Heart of the Land". His first collection of short fiction, Small Accidents, was published by Raincoast in the fall of 2001. He is now the administrator of UBC's Optional Residency MFA program.

Creative Writing MFA alumnus, Lee Henderson, received a nomination for the 2008 Writers Trust Awards for his novel The Man Game. Henderson, who will be competing with award winning authors for this $25,000 fiction prize won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for The Broken Record Technique.
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Graduated: 1974 | Website

Joseph Hutchison is the author of four full-length collections of poems ѠThe Rain At Midnight (2000), Bed of Coals (winner of the 1994 Colorado Poetry Award), House of Mirrors (1992), and The Undersides of Leaves (1985) Ѡas well as seven chapbooks, including the 1982 Colorado Governor's Award volume, Shadow-Light, and most recently Greatest Hits 1970-2000 and Sentences (both from Pudding House, 2003). His poems have appeared in such publications as American Poetry Review, The Colorado Review, The Denver Quarterly, Fiddlehead, The Hudson Review, Luna, Midwest Quarterly, Mississippi Review, The Nation, Ohio Review, Poetry (Chicago), Prism International, and in several anthologies. He has also published a wide variety of literary essays, book reviews, and magazine articles.

Graduated: 1976 | Website: none

Anne Ireland graduated with a BFA from UBC in 1976. Her first novel, 'A Certain Mr. Takahashi' won the Seal First Novel award in 1986 and was made into a feature film. Second novel, 'The Instructor' published in 1986, short-listed for the Ontario Trillium Award. Her most recent novel is 'Exile', published 2002, short-listed for Governor General's Award, Rogers/Writers Trust award, and the Torgi award for fiction. It was selected as one of the year's best books by The Globe and Mail and Quill and Quire.

She lives in Toronto where she heads up the Ryerson University Writing department (Continuing Education) and teaches on-line and in the classroom.

Graduated: 1989, BFA, Creative Writing), 1992, MFA, Creative Writing |
Website: www.realisticsanctuary.com

After graduating with an MFA, Sanjay freelanced with U.S. and European technology companies and became an award-winning corporate writer. Over the past few years, he has inspired designers and technologists who develop mobile phones and robots by emphasizing the need for calm games and play to address psychological unease caused, in part, by accelerating change. Of late, he's written environmental journalism for Worldchanging.com, a web site focused on innovation and sustainability, and some of his personal blog posts have appeared on Reuters.com. All these experiences contributed to Sanjay's creative non-fiction book project being chosen for representation by a New York-based literary agent.

Graduated: 1985, MFA | Website: http://members.shaw.ca/winonakent

I received my BA (Hons) in English from the University of Regina. After living in Winnipeg and Moose Jaw, I eventually found my way to Vancouver, where I graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing.

I've been a freelance writer for assorted newspapers and magazines, a temporary secretary in London, a travel agent and the Managing Editor of the literary magazine Prism international.

I spent a few years working for TELUS in Burnaby, BC, as an in-house travel consultant, a word processing clerk, a contract management clerk and a tech writer.

In 2003 I graduated from Vancouver Film School's full time program in Writing for Screen and TV.

I'm currently a Program Assistant at UBC's School of Population and Public Health. I continue to write and develop screenplays.

Publication List:

FILM AND TV SCRIPTS

Committee of the Unloved (Feature)
Optioned by Sistar Films / Carrie Wheeler Films (Vancouver), 2008

Herd Maintenance (Comedy) (20 minute short)
Optioned by Charlie Neyra, 2006

Found at Sea / Life Boat (Drama) (Feature)
Optioned by Principia Productions, 2005

Tower of Power (30 min. teleplay)
(Developed for anthol ogy seri
Optioned by CBC TV Vancouver, 1986

NON-FICTION

A Modest Act (Interview with Sean Bean)
Lifestyle Magazine (New Zealand)
Summer 2002

Feature articles for Flare Magazine (Canada):

Kissing is a Crime (Folksingers Duck Donald and Cathy Fink)
Kicking Up the Dust (Regina Modern Dance Works)
Uncommon Eatery (48 Albert Street, Winnipeg)
Learning the Ropes (Bellringer Wayne Tunison)
Tap Casting (Tapdancers Judy Cook and Nanette Bevelander)
Anything You Want to Be (Newspaper editor Dona Harvey)
Canadian Travel Spots (Ski holidays in Canada)
Career File (Tour Wholesaler Leslie Brown)
Career File (Train Engineer Gloria Landick)
Hey Presto (Magician Brian Glow)

SHORT STORIES

Dietrich's Ash (Okan Winner)
Published: Canadian Author & Bookman
Anthology: Pure Fiction (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Broadcast: CBC Radio, "Ambience"

Creatures from Greek Mythology
(Second Prize Winner, WQ Editors Prize)
Published: Cross-Canada Writers Quarterly

Tower of Power
(First Prize, Annual Fiction Competition)
(a very long time ago, when they still published short fiction)
Published: Flare

True Confessions
Published: Green's Magazine

NOVELS

Skywatcher
(Finalist in Seal Books First Novel Award)
Publisher: Bantam Books 1989

The Cilla Rose Affair
Publisher: Writers Club Press/Iuniverse 2001

Owen Laukkanen's debut thriller, The Professionals, will be published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in Winter, 2012.

The first of a series featuring Minnesota state trooper Kirk Stevens, and FBI Agent Carla Windermere, The Professionals has been called “a brutally beautiful piece of work” by John Sandford, New York Times bestselling author of the Lucas Davenport Prey novels, and “a first-class thriller by a terrific new voice” by NYT bestselling author John Lescroart.

An alumnus of the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing BFA program (2006), Laukkanen spent three years in the world of professional poker, traveling to high-stakes tournaments across the globe as a writer for PokerListings.com, before landing a book deal for The Professionals.

A commercial fisherman when he’s not writing, Laukkanen divides his time between Toronto and Prince Edward Island.

Graduated: 2006, BA

Angela Long completed a BA in Creative Writing at UBC in 2006. Her first collection of poems, Observations from Off the Grid, was released in April 2010 by Libros Libertad. Publications in which her non-fiction, poetry, and fiction have appeared include: The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Utne, The Sun, Poetry Ireland Review, Geez, Alimentum, Northword, Existere, PRECIPICe, Fugue, The Nashwaak Review, Carousel, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Canadian Literature, The Antigonish Review, CV2, Arc, Brittle Star, Event, and The Dalhousie Review. Her poem “Testimony Suite” won first place at the 2008 Surrey International Writing Conference. She has also won awards from Room, Other Voices, Accenti, and The Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award. Currently, she lives in a log cabin on Haida Gwaii.

Graduated: 1999 | Website

Judy MacInnes Jr. is the author of Snatch (Anvil Press, 2000). eye WEEKLY called it "... a blast to read, and an early favourite for the best debut of the year" and disCorder magazine named Snatch as one of the top ten books published in 2000 along with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Her CD, Yappy Snatch, features respected West Coast artists like Veda Hille, Christine Taylor and Kinnie Starr performing their interpretations of Judy's poems (with additional music by Ewan Deane, Don Harrison, and Steve Dawson). Her writing has been anthologized in Breathing Fire, Eye Wuz Here, Northwest Edge, and most recently in ribsauce: a cd/anthology of words by women (Vehicule, 2001). Judy is currently at work on her second book.

Graduated: MFA 2007| Website

Donnard is currently pursuing his PhD in the Language and Literacy Department of UBC. His full length play Thomas At Mile Zero was given a professional workshop production in 2008 and his research based drama Naming the Shadows has toured various conferences, including the prestigious International  Drama Education Research Association. For more information please visit his theatre company website, originstheatreprojects.ca

Graduated: 2001 | Website

Andrea MacPherson has written four books, two novels When She Was Electric (Raincoast, 2003), and Beyond the Blue (Random House Canada, 2007) and two poetry collections Natural Disasters: Poems (Palimpsest Press, 2007) and Away (Signature Editions, 2007) . She teaches Creative Writing and English with University College of the Fraser Valley and Douglas College. Andrea is a past Editor of Prism International, and currently acts as Reviews Editor for Event Magazine.

Graduated: 1999 | Website

Susan MacRae was born in Edmonton, Alberta. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from UBC, and is presently working on her Masters in English/Creative Writing at City College of New York in Harlem. In 1999, Susan received a scholarship to attend Vancouver Film School through BC Festival of the Arts. She also works as an interpreter for the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, and lives with Molly Starlight and the three-legged dog Mitehi in Connecticut.

Publications

Seven Sisters: Writing from the Seven Sisters Writing Group, Permanent Press, 1998.
Lady Driven: More Writing from the Seven Sisters Writing Group, Seven Sisters, 2000.

Graduated: 1993 | Website: none

Shirley Mahood graduated UBC in 1993 with a double BA (CRWR and English Lit). She received her MA from the University of NB (Creative Writing option) in 1995. Her thesis was a collection of short fiction and poetry called View from the Passenger Seat. She is now living in Nanaimo, working on a novel.

Leensok letoch haor hachi chazak: Mevchar shirim [Fly Off Into the Strongest Light: Selected Poems] by Professor Seymour Mayne, translated into Hebrew by Moshe Dor (Keshev le’Shira, 2009), has been awarded the 2010 J.I. Segal Award for the translation of a book with a Jewish theme. Congratulations!

Seymour Mayne's selected poems rendered into Hebrew by Moshe Dor has been chosen to receive the J.I. Award for the Translation of a Book on a Jewish Theme. This major collection by the poet is entitled Fly Off into the Strongest Light: Selected Poems (Keshev Publishing House). The prize will be awarded at a public ceremony on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gelber Conference Centre, 1 Cummings Square (5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Road), Montreal.

Click here to view the public announcement of the award. 

Graduated: 1996 | Website

Katharine Montagu is a writer, producer, script analyst and story editor. She has written and produced numerous short films including Jam Space (2003) and is moving on to features. Kat won a 2001 Praxis Centre for Screenwriters Fellowship with The Emperor of China, a feature film screenplay started at UBC which also won development funding from BC Film. She wrote a feature screenplay called The Neilsons as part of a BC Film Internship and has two other screenplays and a TV series in development. She and partner Rob Wenzek became self-employed when they started Write Shoot Edit Productions in 2001.

Kat has been Vice-President of Women in Film & Video Vancouver and currently sits on the board of directors of Cineworks. Her articles and interviews are regularly published in Canadian Screenwriter. She is a screenwriting instructor at Vancouver Film School.

Kat grew up in England and lived in Australia, Thailand and Japan before moving to Canada in the early 1990s. She graduated with a BFA in Creative Writing from UBC, where she also studied film and philosophy.

Graduated: 1971 | Website: none

Michael Mirolla is a novelist and short story writer currently residing in Toronto, Canada. His most recent publication is Berlin: A Novel (available for purchase online at Trafford). A collection of short storiesєhe Formal Logic of Emotionѷas published by Nuage in 1992. One of the stories from the collection, ҁ Theory of Discontinuous Existence,Ӡwas also selected for that year's The Journey Prize Anthology. He has had short stories published in numerous journals in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, including several anthologies such as Event's Peace & War Anthology, Telling Differences: New English Fiction from Quebec, Tesseracts 2: Canadian Science Fiction, and the Collection of Italian-Canadian Fiction.

Website: www.TomMurphy.org

Tom Murphy is a business consultant, author, and the director of an institute at Fordham University in NY dedicated to supporting the "resiliency" of employees in the US travel and hospitality industries."

Graduated: 1994 | Website: none

Anna Nobile has been published in several journals and anthologies as well as having had two chapbooks published. You Are What You Eat, a collection of poems and recipes, was adapted for the internet's CBC Radio 3 at www.120seconds.com. Her work has also been heard on CBC Radio One. Anna also works as a freelance journalist and has been published in The Loop Magazine, The Georgia Straight and is a regular contributor to The Westender.

Degree: MFA
Year of Gradution: 2007
Personal website: www.susanolding.com

Susan Olding's work has appeared widely in Canadian literary journals and has won or been nominated for numerous awards, including a National Magazine Award, two Western Magazine awards, and the inaugural Edna Award from The New Quarterly. Her first book, Pathologies: A Life in Essays (Freehand, 2008) was long-listed for the BC Award for Canadian Nonfiction and nominated for the Creative Nonfiction Collective's Readers Choice Award. She lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario.

Graduated: 1990 | Website

Barbara Parkin's fiction and poetry have appeared in Descant, Canadian Fiction Magazine, the Capilano Review, CV2, Prairie Fire, Queen's Quarterly and others. A collection of her stories were published in 1996 under the title, Woman With a Man Inside (Nightwood/Harbour). Dramatic readings of her plays have taken place at The Waterfront Theatre and other Granville Island locations.

Graduated: 1991 | Website: none

Sina Queyras' second book of poetry, Teeth Marks, was published by Nightwood Editions in October 2004. She is editing an anthology of contmporary Canadian poetry for Persea Books, due to be published in April 2005. Her fiction can be found in Prairie Fire and Descant. Sina currently lives in Brooklyn, NY and teaches creative writing at Rutgers.

Graduated: 2006 | Website

Joelle moved to Somerville, MA in August, 2008. She teaches writing at Boston University and literature and writing at the Boston Collegiate Charter School and Lesley University. Since moving to Boston, she has also taught public speaking/communications at Emerson College and Quincy College.

In 2006, she received her Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. Her thesis was in fiction, though she also took courses in non-fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and writing and editing for radio. In 2000, she received her Bachelor of Arts in English, with a subconcentration in creative writing, from the University of Michigan.

She currently writes music and concert reviews for Sonic Clash. Her work has appeared in Carousel, Briarpatch, the Means, theAllegheny Review, Sycamore Review, the New York Inquirer and others. A chapbook of her poetry was published by the University of Arkansas Press and in 2008 she collaborated with an artist on an ekphrastic publication of painting and poetry.

Joelle is the recipient of the CBC Television Jim Burt Prize in Creative Writing, the Hopwood Award for Poetry and the Virginia Voss Writing Award.

She is currently working on a collection of essays, three of which have been published."

Link to website: www.joellerenstrom.com

Jeyn Roberts's first story was published when she was 16 in a middle-grade anthology called Let Me Tell You. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Writing and Psychology, received her MA from the prestigious Creative Writing graduate course at Bath Spa University. Jeyn is a former singer, songwriter, actress, bicycle courier and tree planter. Jeyn recently taught high school in South Korea, and is now back home in Vancouver, Canada. Publication: Dark Inside - Simon & Schuster and Macmillian

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Graduated: 2000 | Website: none

Laisha Rosnau was the Executive Editor of PRISM international in 1999-2000 and the recipient of the Ranjit Singh Azad Memorial Scholarship in Poetry (1999) and a University Graduate Fellowship (1999-2000.) Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in journals and anthologies in Canada, the US, and Australia. A chapbook of her poetry, The Getaway Girl, was published by Greenboathouse Books (Victoria) in March 2002. Her first novel, The Sudden Weight of Snow, was released by McClelland and Stewart in April 2002. Rosnau lives in Vancouver where she is at work on a collection of poems and a second novel.

Graduated: 1999 | Website

Books

Kingdom of Monkeys. Raincoast Books, 2001.

"Waterslide" in Event, 2002.
"Flat Little Persians" in PRISM international, 2001.
"Timmy-Tim's Big Escape" in sub-TERRAIN, 2001.
"Pak Arafim the Pharmacist" in The Malahat Review, 2000.
"Abridgement of the History of the Reign of Ferdinand I and Isabella the Catholic" in Geist, 2000.
"Kingdom of Monkeys" in Zygote, 2000.
"The Country Squire" in Zygote, 1999.
"House on Fire" in Grain, 1997.

Online Journals

in Forget Magazine, 2002.

Anthologies

"Seven Years With Wallace" in Write Turns: New Directions in Canadian Fiction, 2001.
"Balinese" in 99: Best Canadian Stories, 1999.
"The Distance Between Prague and New Orleans" in Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops, 1997.

Graduated: 1992 | Website

Eleonore Schonmaier's poetry collection Treading Fast Rivers (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada, and was widely praised in reviews. Her collection of fiction is Passion Fruit Tea (Roseway Publishing, 1994). Her writing has been published in magazines internationally, and has been broadcast on CBC radio including The Arts Today. She has taught advanced fiction courses at St. Mary's University, creative writing at Mount Saint Vincent University, and has worked as a writing mentor for the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia. Currently she is the Writing Resource Centre Coordinator for Mount Saint Vincent University. She is also at work on a series of black and white photographs of writers hands.

MFA Creative Writing (Non-Fiction)
Graduated: May 2008

Carol Shaben has had her personal essays, fiction, and non-fiction published in books, national magazines and literary journals. At the 2009 National Magazine Awards, Shaben was one of three Canadians nominated for Best New Magazine Writer. In June 2010, she won two National Magazine Awards, a Gold Medal for Investigative Reporting and a Silver Medal for Politics and Public Interest, for “Fly at Your Own Risk”, a feature article published in The Walrus. Shaben’s first book, Into the Abyss; How a Deadly Commuter Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop, will be published by Random House Canada in 2012.

Graduated: 2000 | Website

In 2001, Loop Magazine named Michael V. Smith one of Vancouver's Most Dangerous People. His writing straddles mainstream and underground culture:

His first novel, Cumberland, published by Cormorant Books, is a provocative look at small town Canadian life. His short fiction has appeared in Stag Line, edited by Bonnie Burnard, Carnal Nation, Best Gay Erotica 2001, and Contra/diction. Smith's poems have won national competitions in Arc and This Magazine and his tranny prostitution videos with Nickolaos Stagias have screened across North America.

Smith is also Miss Cookie LaWhore, a stand up drag queen capable of anything, and a pornographic zinester, self-publishing Cruising, a study of the culture of gay public sex.

Graduated: 1984 | Website

Richard Stevenson has read to enthusiastic audiences across the country and is the author of thirteen full-length collections of poetry, including, most recently, A Murder of Crows: New & Selected Poems, Live Evil: Homage To Miles Davis, Nothing Definite Yeti ( YA verse), and Hot Flashes: Maiduguri Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka. Richard also performs with the young adult rock/ poetry group Sasquatch and the adult jazz/poetry ensemble Naked Ear, which recently recorded a CD, See 4/4 Miles. He regularly reviews poetry and fiction, and periodically runs adult and young adult workshops. He holds degrees in English and Creative Writing from The University of Victoria and University of British Columbia and teaches Canadian Literature, Creative Writing, and Business Communication at Lethbridge Community College in southern Alberta.

Cathy Stonehouse grew up in the UK, where she received a BA in English from Wadham College, Oxford University, and subsequently moved to Vancouver, where she received an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. The author of a poetry collection (The Words I Know, Press Gang Publishers 1994), co-editor of the creative nonfiction anthology Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008) and a former editor of award-winning literary journal EVENT, her creative nonfiction, poetry short fiction has appeared in a wide variety of Canadian literary journals and anthologies including Best Canadian Stories 2010.  A creative writing instructor and freelance writer/editor, she also has two books forthcoming in 2011: Something about the Animal: Stories (Biblioasis) and Grace Shiver: Poems (Inanna Publications).

Graduated: 2001 | Website: none

Barbara Stowe's fiction and non-fiction has been published in literary journals and national newspapers and short-listed for the CBC literary awards. Her feature-length screenplay Love and Greenpeace was sold to Principia Productions. She was chosen for the Banff Wired Writing Studio in 2002 and is currently writing fiction, poetry and non-fiction. She is grateful to UBC faculty and her fellow UBC and Wired alumni for all their help and inspiration.

Graduated: 1998 | Website

Born in Toronto, now living in Halifax, Colleen Marie Subasic is playwright, novelist and editor. She started working at Theatre Passe Muraille at the age of 18, an experience that transformed her life. Six of her plays have received professional productions including a semi-national tour and a slot in the Women in View Festival. Her short fiction has been published in SUBTerrain and Impulse magazines. Paper Jam, a play, will open the Lunch Time theatre season in Halifax, 2002. She just completed two novels: The Forty Watt Flowers, about an all-girl band in Athens, Georgia; and, Grimm's Gables a comedic tale from the punk scene of Toronto. Member of Playwrights Union of Canada (1991).

Graduated: 1973 | Website

Terese Svoboda is the author of eight books of prose, poetry, and translation. Her most recent book of poetry is [Treason], published by Zoo Press. Her other publications include [Trailer Girl and Other Stories], [Cannibal], winner of the Bobst Prize from NYU, and [Laughing Africa], winner of the Iowa Prize in Poetry. Her work has been selected for the Writer's Choice column in [The New York Times Book Review], a Great Lakes New Writers Award, an NEH grant in translation, Voice Literary Supplement Best Summer Books, and one of [Spin]'s books of the year.

Graduated: 2001 | Website: none

Madeleine Thien was born in Vancouver. Her first book of fiction, Simple Recipes, was published in 2001, earning the praise of such writers as Alice Munro who called the collection Ҵhe debut of a splendid writer.ӠSimple Recipes was named a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, and went on to win the City of Vancouver Book Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award for most promising Canadian writer under the age of 30. She is currently at work on a novel.

Simple Recipes: Stories
Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2001
U.S.: Little, Brown & Co., 2002
France: Mercure de France/Gallimard, 2003

Publications in Best Canadian Stories, The Journey Prize Anthology, Islands West: Stories from the Coast, Event, Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review and serialized on CBC Radio's Between the Covers.

Graduated: 1999 | Website

Bob Wakulick's writing has appeared in a number of Canadian, American and international journals, publications and anthologies. Most recently, he has appeared in Tickleace, SubTerrain, and Motionsickness. He is currently living in Cranbrook and teaching English, Creative Writing and Film Studies at the College of the Rockies.

Graduated: 1993 | Website: none

In 1996 Amy Whitmore was short-listed in the fall Praxis competition, which meant a FREE!! critique of her script. In 1997 she won the Atlantic Film Festival's Script Development Competition, co-sponsored by CBC, The Harold Greenberg Fund, and deluxe toronto. She has done commentaries for CBC radio & TV, was commissioned by CBC to write an 8 episode summer radio play, and in 2001 won the Scene Missing competition at Tidal Wave, the New Brunswick Film Festival. The prize was a package of support to shoot the script, which she is now in the process of doing. In 2000 she was a writer in training on CBC/Fox's "Daring & Grace" series.

Graduated: | Website

Monica Woelfel's poetry appears on Poet's Corner, Educational Insights Website. Also poems upcoming in Room of One's Own journal. Fiction and nonfiction has appeared in journals, including Event and The North American Review. Also anthologized in "The Soul Unearthed: Celebrating Wildness and Spiritual Renewal Through Nature." Screenplay:Ҍast Photo,Ӡa 20-minute film, directed by Katherine Pettit. Oct 2003.