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The UBC School of Creative Writing is Canada's oldest and most prestigious university writing program

The Creative Writing Program at UBC offers an undergraduate major and minor, as well as a graduate program in creative writing and a unique optional-residency MFA program. Courses are offered in a wide array of genres: poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, graphic forms, playwriting, screenwriting, lyric & libretto, new media, and radio. Faculty include Nancy Lee, Annabel Lyon, Keith Maillard, Linda Svendsen, Timothy Taylor, Bryan Wade, Maureen Medved, and Rhea Tregebov.

09/03/2026

Join Jordan Scott for an hour of generative writing that starts where most picture books start — with an idea that seems too small, too wild, or too strange to work!

This September, the UBC School of Creative Writing is launching the Creative Writing Taster Month, a series of free writing workshops — so you can experience firsthand the course material of our Fall 2026 continuing education courses and find the right one for you.

Jordan's His debut children’s book, I Talk Like a River, was a New York Times best Children’s Book of 2020, and was translated into 21 languages. In the full course, Writing Picture Books , you’ll learn to read picture books analytically and understand how text and image work together to make meaning

🔗 Click the link to register for the webinar with Jordan and check out more workshops this September. https://linktr.ee/crwr.comms

09/01/2026

Join Selina Boan for a free one-hour workshop on making unique and memorable metaphors for your poems and beyond!

This September, the UBC School of Creative Writing is launching the Creative Writing Taster Month, a series of free writing workshops — so you can experience firsthand the course material of our Fall 2026 continuing education courses and find the right one for you.

Selina is an award-winning poet whose work has been published widely, including The Best Canadian Poetry. In the full course, Possibility and Play: Foundations of Poetic Practice, you’ll explore foundational poetry techniques and develop strategies for sustaining a poetic practice.

🔗 Click the link to register for the webinar with Selina and check out more workshops this September. https://linktr.ee/crwr.comms

08/28/2026

Join Thommy Hutson for a a free 1-hour that will leave you with a new way to evaluate your screenplay!

This September, the UBC School of Creative Writing is launching the Creative Writing Taster Month, a series of free writing workshops — so you can experience firsthand the course material of our Fall 2026 continuing education courses and find the right one for you.

Thommy is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, and author whose work has appeared on Netflix, Hallmark, Lifetime, Hulu, and more. In the full course, Feature Screenwriting - From Draft to Craft, you’ll develop strategies to move your drafted screenplay forward—all the way to the screen.

🔗 Click the link to register for the webinar with Thommy and check out more workshops this September. https://linktr.ee/crwr.comms

08/26/2026

Join Chinelo Amadi for a free 1-hour workshop on generating and developing a movie idea.

This September, the UBC School of Creative Writing is launching the Creative Writing Taster Month, a series of free writing workshops — so you can experience firsthand the course material of our Fall 2026 continuing education courses and find the right one for you.

Chinelo is passionate about making the craft of screenwriting accessible and engaging. In the full course, Feature Screenwriting – From Idea to First Draft, you’ll learn to transform your spark of inspiration into a story ready for the big screen.

🔗 Click the link to register for the webinar with Chinelo and check out more workshops this September. https://linktr.ee/crwr.comms

08/24/2026

Join Ulysses Mugavazi for a free writing workshop on creating original concepts, worlds, and settings for your science fiction, horror, and fantasy.

This September, the UBC School of Creative Writing is launching the Creative Writing Taster Month, a series of free writing workshops — so you can experience firsthand the course material of our Fall 2026 continuing education courses and find the right one for you.

Ulysses Mugavazi is an award-winning writer and the keynote speaker at the Science Fiction Foundation’s 2024 Annual Conference. In the full course, Writing Speculative Fiction: Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Beyond, you’ll learn to tell memorable, character-driven stories within the context of a world of your making.

🔗 Click the link to register for the webinar with Ulysses and check out more workshops this September. https://linktr.ee/crwr.comms

08/21/2026

Join Stacey Matson for a free 1-hour workshop and create an authentic character with a compelling problem and a unique voice for a middle-grade audience!

This September, the UBC School of Creative Writing is launching the Creative Writing Taster Month, a series of free writing workshops — so you can experience firsthand the course material of our Fall 2026 continuing education courses and find the right one for you.

Stacey Matson is the author of five middle-grade novels, including the award-winning A Year in the Life of a Total And Complete Genius. By the end of the full course, Writing Fiction for Young Readers, you’ll have a first chapter and a roadmap for writing a middle grade novel with tight pacing, sharp dialogue and real stakes that resonate with young readers.

🔗 Click the link to register for the webinar with Stacey and check out more workshops this September.
https://linktr.ee/crwr.comms

08/19/2026

Join Laurence Lewis Neal for an hour of generative writing and craft tips that will make the narrator of your memoir come alive.

This September, the UBC School of Creative Writing is launching the Creative Writing Taster Month, a series of free writing workshops — so you can experience firsthand the course material of our Fall 2026 continuing education courses and find the right one for you.

With dual master’s degrees in Creative Writing and History, Laurence Neal incorporates autobiographical elements in their fiction, fiction techniques in their nonfiction, and poetic language and historical research in all their work. In the full course, Memoir Writing: Make Your Narrator Come Alive, you will learn to differentiate the narrator from the protagonist and cultivate specificity of character, voice and context.

🔗 Click the link to register for the webinar with Laurence and check out more workshops this September. https://linktr.ee/crwr.comms?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAcGRvZgJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAadktIptiNtFKGnOUUogRpm0OkKt3gA6qEPgMN_Nucr0qcRKG0xRw2bfs892dA_aem_wwLZMrlQ7Rnvyix-JCOpfA

08/17/2026

Join Loghan Paylor for a free workshop and learn how to create vivid, immersive settings that pull a reader into the world of your story.

This September, the UBC School of Creative Writing is launching the Creative Writing Taster Month, a series of free writing workshops — so you can experience firsthand the course material of our Fall 2026 continuing education courses and find the right one for you.

Loghan Paylor is the author of the #1 national bestseller The Cure for Drowning, which won the 2026 CBC Canada Reads competition. In the full course, Foundations of Fiction, you will build your fiction writing skills by learning character development, plot, setting, revision and creative techniques to write engaging stories.

🔗 Click the link in the bio to register for the webinar with Loghan and check out more workshops this September. https://linktr.ee/crwr.comms?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAcGRvZgJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAadktIptiNtFKGnOUUogRpm0OkKt3gA6qEPgMN_Nucr0qcRKG0xRw2bfs892dA_aem_wwLZMrlQ7Rnvyix-JCOpfA

08/14/2026

Join Molly Cross-Blanchard for a generative FREE workshop that will give you a taste of how good it feels to write unabashed, authentic poems!

This September, the UBC School of Creative Writing is launching the Creative Writing Taster Month, a series of free writing workshops — so you can experience firsthand the course material of our Fall 2026 continuing education courses, and find the right one for you.

Molly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis writer whose poems have been shortlisted for multiple awards, and her poem “Here’s the thing,” originally published in Geist, was selected by Aislinn Hunter for inclusion in Best Canadian Poetry 2025. In the full course, Voice and Vulnerability - Writing One-of-a-Kind Poems, you will learn to understand how voice operates in poetry and wield concrete, figurative language to enhance voice.

Click the link to register for the webinar with Molly. https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/3517860502135/WN_oPwWe8izRaOGW-oVfJpVpQ #/registration

08/12/2026

Deciding if a learning course fits your writing goals isn’t always easy. This September, the UBC School of Creative Writing is launching the Creative Writing Taster Month, a series of free writing workshops — so you can experience firsthand the course material of our Fall 2026 continuing education courses, and find the right one for you.

✍ All workshops are free, and you can register for as many as you’d like.

💻 Recording links will be sent out for all workshops that you sign up for.

🤩 The workshops are designed to be fun and educational on their own. Everyone’s welcome, whether you go on to take the full course or not.

🔗 Click link to sign up. https://creativewriting.ubc.ca/continuing-education-creative-writing/creative-writing-taster-month/

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