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We offer the study of historical and contemporary creativity in various forms. FCCS offers undergraduate programs leading to Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art History and Visual Culture, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, French, English, and Languages, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts, as well as a Bachelor of Media Studies. The Faculty also offers courses in other subject areas including Chinese, Communications and Rhetoric, Digital Humanities, Film, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (minor), Theatre (minor), and World Literatures.

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Imagine. Create. Find your voice. Hone the fundamentals of craft in a variety of genres in our BFA and Minor Programs.

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Wherever you’re writing from, our renowned MFA program offers a world-class educational experience either on-campus or online.

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Learn from leading professors and authors without the commitment of a degree program.

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Study with our faculty of internationally renowned, award-winning authors in a student-focused program that blends the best of traditional workshop and leading edge pedagogy.

MFA Program

It was the reputation of UBC’s Creative Writing program that convinced me to focus on an MFA. The faculty sounded wonderful, and I loved the idea of the optional-residency program, which would allow me to go ahead with my plans to move to Europe while still enjoying the benefits of a UBC education.

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Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Distance) (MFA)

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Creative Writers are at the heart of our cultural industries. Poets, novelists, screenwriters, playwrights, graphic novelists, magazine writers: they entertain, inform and inspire. For more than 15 years, UBC's Creative Writing program has been educating writers through distance education in a program which complements our long-standing on-campus MFA program.

A studio program with the writing workshop at its heart, the distance MFA focuses on the work created by students as the primary text. Through intensive peer critique and craft discussion, faculty and students work together with the same goal: literary excellence.

The MFA granted to distance students is the same degree as granted to on-campus students, and the same criteria of excellence in multiple genres of study apply.

For specific program requirements, please refer to the departmental program website

What makes the program unique?

UBC's Optional-Residency (Distance) MFA was the first distance education MFA program in Canada and remains the only full MFA which can be taken completely online. It is designed to be uniquely flexible, allowing students across Canada and around the world to study writing at the graduate level while still living in their local communities and fulfilling career and family obligations.

The program is unique globally for its multi-genre approach to writing instruction: students are required to work in multiple genres during the course of the degree. As a fine arts program rather than an English program, students focus on the practice of writing rather than the study of literature. Students may work on a part-time basis, taking up to five years to complete the degree.

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Program enquiries, admission information & requirements, program instructions.

The optional residency MFA (distance) program only has a July intake.

1) Check Eligibility

Minimum academic requirements.

The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies establishes the minimum admission requirements common to all applicants, usually a minimum overall average in the B+ range (76% at UBC). The graduate program that you are applying to may have additional requirements. Please review the specific requirements for applicants with credentials from institutions in:

Each program may set higher academic minimum requirements. Please review the program website carefully to understand the program requirements. Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee admission as it is a competitive process.

English Language Test

Applicants from a university outside Canada in which English is not the primary language of instruction must provide results of an English language proficiency examination as part of their application. Tests must have been taken within the last 24 months at the time of submission of your application.

Minimum requirements for the two most common English language proficiency tests to apply to this program are listed below:

TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language - internet-based

Overall score requirement : 90

IELTS: International English Language Testing System

Overall score requirement : 6.5

Other Test Scores

Some programs require additional test scores such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Graduate Management Test (GMAT). The requirements for this program are:

The GRE is not required.

2) Meet Deadlines

3) prepare application, transcripts.

All applicants have to submit transcripts from all past post-secondary study. Document submission requirements depend on whether your institution of study is within Canada or outside of Canada.

Letters of Reference

A minimum of three references are required for application to graduate programs at UBC. References should be requested from individuals who are prepared to provide a report on your academic ability and qualifications.

Statement of Interest

Many programs require a statement of interest , sometimes called a "statement of intent", "description of research interests" or something similar.

Supervision

Students in research-based programs usually require a faculty member to function as their supervisor. Please follow the instructions provided by each program whether applicants should contact faculty members.

Instructions regarding supervisor contact for Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Distance) (MFA)

Citizenship verification.

Permanent Residents of Canada must provide a clear photocopy of both sides of the Permanent Resident card.

4) Apply Online

All applicants must complete an online application form and pay the application fee to be considered for admission to UBC.

Tuition & Financial Support

Financial support.

Applicants to UBC have access to a variety of funding options, including merit-based (i.e. based on your academic performance) and need-based (i.e. based on your financial situation) opportunities.

Scholarships & awards (merit-based funding)

All applicants are encouraged to review the awards listing to identify potential opportunities to fund their graduate education. The database lists merit-based scholarships and awards and allows for filtering by various criteria, such as domestic vs. international or degree level.

Teaching Assistantships (GTA)

Graduate programs may have Teaching Assistantships available for registered full-time graduate students. Full teaching assistantships involve 12 hours work per week in preparation, lecturing, or laboratory instruction although many graduate programs offer partial TA appointments at less than 12 hours per week. Teaching assistantship rates are set by collective bargaining between the University and the Teaching Assistants' Union .

Research Assistantships (GRA)

Many professors are able to provide Research Assistantships (GRA) from their research grants to support full-time graduate students studying under their direction. The duties usually constitute part of the student's graduate degree requirements. A Graduate Research Assistantship is a form of financial support for a period of graduate study and is, therefore, not covered by a collective agreement. Unlike other forms of fellowship support for graduate students, the amount of a GRA is neither fixed nor subject to a university-wide formula. The stipend amounts vary widely, and are dependent on the field of study and the type of research grant from which the assistantship is being funded. Some research projects also require targeted research assistance and thus hire graduate students on an hourly basis.

Financial aid (need-based funding)

Canadian and US applicants may qualify for governmental loans to finance their studies. Please review eligibility and types of loans .

All students may be able to access private sector or bank loans.

Foreign government scholarships

Many foreign governments provide support to their citizens in pursuing education abroad. International applicants should check the various governmental resources in their home country, such as the Department of Education, for available scholarships.

Working while studying

The possibility to pursue work to supplement income may depend on the demands the program has on students. It should be carefully weighed if work leads to prolonged program durations or whether work placements can be meaningfully embedded into a program.

International students enrolled as full-time students with a valid study permit can work on campus for unlimited hours and work off-campus for no more than 20 hours a week.

A good starting point to explore student jobs is the UBC Work Learn program or a Co-Op placement .

Tax credits and RRSP withdrawals

Students with taxable income in Canada may be able to claim federal or provincial tax credits.

Canadian residents with RRSP accounts may be able to use the Lifelong Learning Plan (LLP) which allows students to withdraw amounts from their registered retirement savings plan (RRSPs) to finance full-time training or education for themselves or their partner.

Please review Filing taxes in Canada on the student services website for more information.

Cost Calculator

Applicants have access to the cost calculator to develop a financial plan that takes into account various income sources and expenses.

Career Options

Graduates of the MFA program have found success in varied fields related to writing and communication. The MFA qualifies graduates for teaching at the university level and many graduates have gone on to teach at colleges and universities in Canada, the United States and overseas as well as holding writing residencies. Many publish books and win literary awards. Others go on to work in publishing, and graduates have become book and magazine editors.

Although the MFA is a terminal degree, some graduates go on to further study in PhD programs in the US, UK and Australia.

The Optional-Residency MFA is particularly well suited to teachers: our teacher-students have been able to gain an advanced degree while continuing their careers.

Research Supervisors

This list shows faculty members with full supervisory privileges who are affiliated with this program. It is not a comprehensive list of all potential supervisors as faculty from other programs or faculty members without full supervisory privileges can request approvals to supervise graduate students in this program.

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Creative Writing combines the best of traditional workshop and leading-edge pedagogy. Literary cross-training offers opportunities in a broad range of genres including fiction, poetry, screenplay, podcasting, video game writing and graphic novel.

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Body of Text

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Body of Text is a collection of concrete poems made by marrying poetry with body-based performance art and documentary photography. Dressed in a full black body-suit, Michael V. Smith is photographed by David Ellingsen in hundreds of poses which resemble Greco-Roman letters, Asian characters, hieroglyphs, or Rorschach inkblots. These are then arranged in book form, to a maximum of three images per page. In the same spirit of moving beyond language as heard in the sound poetry of Christian Bök, the poems in Body of Text occupy a liminal space between poetry and visual art. The body is made word, is made site, object and subject. The body is symbol.

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Michael V. Smith is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches creative writing. His first novel, Cumberland, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca / Books in Canada First Novel Award. His short fiction has won the Western Magazine Gold Award for Fiction and been nominated for the Journey Prize. In 2007, Smith received the Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers and Vancouver’s Community Hero of the Year Award. A native of Cornwall, Ontario, Smith currently lives in Kelowna, BC.

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Artwork displayed as part of this project – including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers – is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.

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My Body is Yours

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Michael V. Smith is a multihyphenate force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male–a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family; a sissy; an insecure teenager desperate to disappear; and an obsessive writer-performer, drawn to compulsions of alcohol, sex, reading, spending, work, and art as a means to cope and heal.

As an artist whose work focuses on our preconceived notions about the body, Michael questions the very notion of what it means to be human. He also asks: How can we know what a man is? How might understanding gender as metaphor be a tool for a deeper understanding of identity? In coming to terms with his past “failures” at masculinity, and with an aging father he is only beginning to come to know, Michael offers a new way of thinking about breaking out of gender norms, and reconciling with a dangerous childhood.

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Niagara Motel

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Set in 1992, Ashley Little’s follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to unforgettable eleven-year-old Tucker Malone–the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper–who believes his father is Sam Malone from Cheers . He and his mother move from motel to motel until, one night in Niagara Falls, his mother is hit by a car after falling asleep in the street.

Tucker is sent to live in a youth group home where he meets Meredith, a pregnant sixteen-year-old street prostitute. They bond over Slurpees and a shared love for literature and he convinces her to “borrow” a car to go to Boston to find his father.

Their cross-country search becomes an epic depiction of mid-90s America as Tucker comes face to face with some of the most notorious criminals of the time: The Oklahoma Bomber; Lorena Bobbitt; the boys responsible for the Columbine High School massacre; O.J. Simpson; and Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.

Told in spare, straightforward prose, Niagara Motel is a biting chronicle during the rise of mass media in the decade that defined the MTV Generation, and the bittersweet story of a young boy forced to learn brutal lessons on his way to becoming a man.

Ashley Little received a BFA in Creative Writing and Film Studies from the University of Victoria and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Her book The New Normal won the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize, and Anatomy of a Girl Gang won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has been optioned for television. Confessions of a Teenage Leper is Ashley’s fifth novel. Ashley lives in British Columbia with her partner, their daughter, and her toy poodle, Huxley.

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The New Normal Korean translation

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Tamar Robinson knows a lot about loss―more than any teenager should. Her younger sisters are dead, her parents are adrift in a sea of grief, and now Tamar is losing her hair. Nevertheless, she navigates her rocky life as best she can, not always with grace, but with her own brand of twisted humour. She joins the chess club with her friend Roy, earns a part in the school production of The Wizard of Oz, buys an awesome wig, lands a crappy job, gets invited to the prom (by three different guys!) and helps her parents re-enter the land of the living. What Tamar lacks in tact (and hair), she makes up for in sheer tenacity.

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Anatomy of a Girl Gang (Crne Ruže) Croatian Translation

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A sharply observed novel narrated in six voices, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is the powerful exploration of a young girl gang in Vancouver called the Black Roses: Mac, the self-appointed leader and mastermind; Mercy, the Punjabi princess with a skill for theft; Kayos, their former classmate who gave birth to a daughter at age thirteen; Sly Girl, who fled her reserve for a better life, only to find depravity and addiction; and Z, a sixteen-year-old anti-establishment graffiti artist.

Cast out by mainstream society, the five girls terrorize Vancouver with a primal, restless urgency. Told with shocking and at times brutal honesty, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is a vivid and unnerving story of urban girl culture.

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Nobody knows bad ideas quite like Michael V. Smith. In his new collection of poetry, he speaks to an intangibility of sense, or a sense beyond the rational. Bad Ideas explores the inevitability of loss and triumph with characteristic irony and tenderness. Through this dazzling collection of a remembered life, hung out to ogle like laundry on the line, Smith recalls a mother who discovers a sex tape, a man who dreams of birthing his own son and a woman who blends her baby girls into milkshakes.

Bad Ideas is a testament to how an altered perspective effects change, how stories can be recast. The collection forms itself into an exercise in which optimism is a practiced art recaptured in dreams and prayers and combined to acknowledge the unknowable, the contradictory, the ungraspable: “An evening is composed / in a hundred unchoreographed / dramas”; “I transform, dressed as a monk / in burgundy and gold robes. I think / this will protect me, but it doesn’t”; “Dear Hatred, sweet / Hatred, do you not move our enemies / to know us better?” Hyperbolic and sincere, this collection brawls with the unquantifiable themes of family, loneliness and love.

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UBCO to announce winners of annual writing contest

April 12, 2021

There were more than 140 submissions for this year’s Okanagan Short Story Contest.

Judge Frances Greenslade congratulates the region’s many talented writers

What: Okanagan Short Story Contest winners to be announced Who: UBCO creative writing program When: Friday, April 16 at 7 p.m. Where: Online via Zoom

It’s time for a virtual drum roll.

UBC Okanagan’s Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS) is hosting an event Friday where it will share the winners of the 2021 Okanagan Short Story Contest.

The annual contest awards the best new short stories by fiction writers in BC’s Southern Interior, including residents east of Hope, west of the Alberta border, north of the US border and south of Williams Lake. Past winners have gone on to publish with Penguin Random House, Arsenal Pulp Press, NeWest Press as well as numerous magazines and journals nationally and internationally.

This year, a total of 140 short story entries were submitted for the adult category, along with 82 stories for the high school category.

“We were blown away by the number of submissions this year,” says FCCS Professor Nancy Holmes. “Maybe COVID-19 has given people a bit more time to stay home and write. Whatever the case, with the largest number of entries in years, it made the decisions tough.”

This year’s contest judge is Frances Greenslade, acclaimed Canadian author and English professor at Okanagan College.

“There were so many well-crafted stories to choose from,” says Greenslade. “Reading the shortlist submissions reminded me what a strong writing community we have in the Okanagan.”

For a look at the shortlisted authors, visit: fccs.ok.ubc.ca/okanagan-short-story-contest-shortlist-announced

The top three stories receive cash prizes of $1,000, $400 and $200; the first prize winner also wins a one-week retreat at the Woodhaven Eco Culture Centre in Kelowna. The top story by a high school student receives a cash prize of $200.

Co-sponsors of the contest are FCCS, TD and the Central Okanagan Foundation.

The event is part of the FCCS Spring Festival of the Arts, and is free and open to the public. It will take place on Friday, April 16 at 7 p.m. with a chance to hear readings from the winners. To register, go to fccs.ok.ubc.ca/short-story

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19 Top Creative Writing Workshops in Michigan

By Katrina Kwan

Are you a writer in Michigan who wants to improve your creative writing by taking a class ?

Below you’ll find 19 top creative writing workshops in Michigan.

1. The 2019 Michigan Writing Workshop

First hosted in 2015, Writing Day Workshops is presenting the 2019 Michigan Writing Workshop on May 4 th , 2019 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Detroit Livonia Novi. The event has limited space for up to 200 guests and offers a wide range of events to participate in, taking place between 9:30am to 5:00pm.

The event is designed to help writers through the publishing process, and will even feature several literary agents from agencies like The Knight Agency, Howland Literary, and more. It costs $189 to register for the event. If you’d like a 10-minute one-on-one meeting with a literary agent or editor, it costs an additional $29. Space is still available, so be sure to apply via email .

2. Wellspring Writing Workshops in Ann Arbor

Wellspring Writing Workshops, a group based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is hosting their 8-week Spring 2019 Creative Writing Workshop. The most recent workshop took place every Thursday evening from March 7 th to March 28 th . But it’s not too late to register!

The next workshop will be hosted Thursday evenings from 6:00pm to 8:45pm from April 4 th to April 25 th . The workshop itself is led by Julie Marioux, a published author, English teacher, and certified AWA workshop method leader. The cost to register is $200, and each session is limited to up to nine people, so be sure to apply as soon as possible!

3. 826michigan’s Detroit Public Library Writing Workshops

If you’re a young writer between 6 to 10 years old who’s looking to participate in a free writing workshop, 826michigan is currently hosting the weE-Bots at the Redford Branch of the Detroit Public Library. This creative writing workshop assigns its writers new topics every week to stimulate the imagination and provide them an outlet to brainstorm, draft, revise, and publish their work.

This workshop is entirely free and requires no prior-registration. All you have to do is show up between October 1 st to May 20 th on Mondays between 5:00pm to 6:00pm at the library located at 21200 Grand River Detroit, Michigan. Click here for a map of the location!

4. Bear River Writers’ Conference with the University of Michigan

The Bear River Writers’ Conference takes place annually in Northern Michigan near Walloon Lake. This year, this conference takes places over several days between May 30 th to June 3 rd , 2019. A host of talented and experience industry professionals will be attending like A. Van Jordan, Mardi Link, Diane Seuss, and Desiree Cooper.

The fee to sign up for this conference is $645 per person. If you’re hoping to find lodging and meal solutions as well, check out the conference’s lodging and fees page. For more information, or if you’re interested in registering, you can contact the organizing team via email or call (734)763-2342.

5. 8-Week Introduction to Memoir with Kelsey Ronan

Writing Workshops Detroit is currently offering a creative writing workshop called 8-Week Introduction to Memoir , led by Kelsey Ronan. Kelsey has earned an MFA in creative writing from Purdue University and is a former writer-in-residence of the Hub City Writers Project. The creative writing workshop itself begins on Thursday, April 11 th , 2019, and is available to new students for a fee of $415. Returning students are offered a rate of $390.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to explore major moments in your life and how to recount them with as much detail and emotional impact as possible. The class meets at 1420 Washington Blvd #301 in Detroit at 7:00pm to 9:00pm. The class size is limited to 8 people only, so be sure to register if you’re interested! For more information, you can use Writing Workshops Detroit’s online contact form .

6. Rochester Writers’ Spring Conference

Based out of Rochester, Michigan, the Rochester Writers group is hosting a spring conference on March 30 th , 2019 between 9:00am to 5:00pm at Oakland University. There will be several events at the workshop to help writers of fiction, nonfiction, and business writing. Their main panel will be discussing the process of self-publishing for those creative writers who are interested in getting their projects out to readers without having to jump through the hurdles of traditional publishing.

They are still accepting late registrations for $130, and even offer at-the-door registration for $160. If you’re interested in attending this writing conference, you can apply online or by mail. The exact event will take place at 2200 N Squirrel Road, Rochester, Michigan. For more information, you can email the team at Rochester Writers.

7. Writing the World: A Creative Nonfiction Workshop by Interlochen Center for the Arts

The Interlochen Center for the Arts, which is based in Interlochen, Michigan, offers a wide range of creative writing programs. They are currently offering a creative nonfiction workshop called Writing the World , which takes place over three days between August 20 th to August 22 nd , 2019. The workshop will be led by Jaimien Delp, who is a part of the creative writing faculty and Interlochen College.

The only thing that participants need to bring along is their own laptop to use for writing exercise. The class registration fee is $275 per person, or $250 per person if you register prior to April 1 st , 2019. Space is limited, so be sure to sign up as soon as you can.

8. Creative Writing Workshops with Voice & Vessel

Based out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Voice & Vessel is a writing studio that offers a handful of different resources for aspiring and established writers. They are currently offering a creative writing workshop both on-location and online. Their latest workshop, Tending the Work , is an online workshop that is geared toward writers who getting ready for submission.

Led by Emily Stoddard, an affiliate with Amherst Writers & Artists and the founder of Voice & Vessel, this workshop also comes with a welcome-kit that provides need-to-know information for writers about the publishing industry and the steps it takes to get published. It starts April 10 th and costs $125 to register. For more information, you’re strongly encouraged to call (616) 350-6210.

9. 8-Week Graphic Novel & Comics Workshop with Shaun Manning

Creative writing isn’t just limited to fiction and nonfiction. It can also include the realm of graphic novels and comics! Writing Workshops Detroit offers 8-Week Graphic Novel & Comics Workshop with Shaun Manning, an experienced comic book writer who’s worked on projects liked Star Wars Adventures, Garbage Pail Kids, and Dark Horse Presents .

The class begins on Monday, April 8 th , 2019 between 7:00pm to 9:00pm at Bamboo Detroit, located at 1420 Washington Blvd #301, Detroit. The class costs $415 for new students, and $390 for returning students. Class sizes are limited, so be sure to register soon!

10. Creative Writing Day at the DIA with Diane Shipley DeCillis

Detroit Working Writers is a community of like-minded writers who share an abundance of creative and professional resources to navigate the literary world. The group offers a variety of workshops, including the third annual Creative Writing Day at the DIA . This workshop recently took place on Saturday, March 16 th , 2019 at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Hosted by Diane Shipley DeCillis, a professional poet and writer, attendants got to learn tips and tricks to expand their creative writing skills. For more information about next year’s event, you can contact the organizer via email .

11. Maranatha Christian Writers’ Conference

Based out of Norton Shores, Michigan, the Maranatha Christian Writer’s group is offering a writers’ conference between September 26 th to September 28 th , 2019. They hope to connect Christian writers with industry professionals, as well as nurture their creative writing capabilities. With faculty speakers like Steven James, Abby McDonald, and Amanda Cleary Eastep, the Maranatha Christian Writers’ Conference is sure to be an excellent opportunity for those writers looking to progress in their careers.

You can register online when registration opens on September 26 th , 2019. For more information, you can contact the team at Maranatha Christian Writers via email . Registration starts at $400 through to June 1 st and increases to $450 after said date, so be sure to register early!

12. The Story Goes On: Writing for Television & the Web with Jill Lorie Hurst

The Michigan Actors Studio does a lot more than just offer acting classes. They also offer workshops for television and web writing. As far as creative writing goes, writing for an entirely new medium requires a certain level of guidance for those interested in breaking out into a new field of entertainment. They currently offer the workshop, The Story Goes On: Writing for Television & the Web , instructed by Emmy award-winning writer Jill Lorie Hurst.

This 8-week intensive class goes over things like character development, two-person scenes, pitching story ideas, script formats accepted by major networks, and more. The glass begins April 9 th , 2019 from 11:00am to 1:00pm and costs $270 to register (prior to March 22 nd ). After this date, registration fees go up to $295. All classes take place in Ferndale, Michigan. If you have any questions, you can email the studio or call (877) 636-3320.

13. Family Literacy Workshops with Eastern Michigan University

The Eastern Michigan University has an express goal of helping their community when it comes to improving literacy rates. Based out of Ypsilanti, Michigan, they offer several workshops for families, teens, and parents to help make reading and writing fun for everyone!

They currently offer workshops like Family Writing Fun Night , which is a 90-minute workshop designed to help families engage in creative writing activities. Registration starts at $450. They also offer Writing Palooza , another 90-minute creative writing workshop designed for teens to work on fiction and creative nonfiction projects. You can find a full list of workshops offered by the university here . For more information, you can contact the office of campus and community writing via email or call (734) 487-0694.

14. Michigan Youth Arts Festival Creative Writing Workshop

The Michigan Council of Teachers of English is currently hosting the Michigan Youth Arts Festival Creative Writing Workshop from May 9 th to May 11 th , 2019. Students in grades 9 through 12 are encouraged in creative writing projects in categories like short stories, poetry, playwriting, graphic narration, and creative nonfiction.

The workshop is run by Joseph Zettelmaier, a Michigan-based playwright and fourth-time nominee for the Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association award. The workshop takes place at 1903 Western Michigan Avenue at Western Michigan University. For more details, you can contact that organizer directly via email .

15. Youth Summer Writing Camps with Oakland University

If you are interested in participating in a writing camp, Oakland University is currently offering several programs for the summer of 2019. This camp is available to all students for a registration fee of $250. Based out of Rochester, Michigan, the summer camp hopes to facilitate a creative space where they can be both inspired and hone their writing skills. They are currently open for registration at this time, so you just have to pick a time between July 8 th to August 12 th that works best for you. If you should have any questions, you’re encouraged to contact the camp director via email .

16. Be A Better Writer with Wow Writing Workshop

Wow Writing Workshop is based out of Royal Oak, Michigan. They offer a wide variety of writing services for students, parents, and even SAT test preparation. They also offer workshops to help aspiring writers organize their ideas and begin their writing journey. They are currently offering Be A Better Writer , an intensive four-day workshop led by Joe Kane.

Topics that will be explored include argument building, diction, understanding the audience, thought organization, and more. You can sign up for the workshop today for a registration fee of only $289. You can sign up directly on Wow Writing Workshop’s website . For more information or general inquiries, you can also reach the team through their online contact form .

17. The Narrative Time Machine: Pacing and the Narrative Arc with T.M. De Vos

The Narrative Time Machine: Pacing and the Narrative Arc is an intensive four-week workshop led by T.M. De Vos. De Vos earned an MFA in creative Writing from New York University and has won several awards for her short fiction. The course itself starts April 10 th , 2019 and takes place every other Wednesday from 6:30pm to 9:00pm. Classes are limited to 8 writers, so it’s imperative that you register as soon as possible. Hosted by Writing Workshops Detroit, it costs $225 to register .

18. Remembering and Writing with Kathleen Ernst

Door County Reads is currently hosting several book discussion and writing workshops, including Remembering and Writing with Kathleen Ernst. The workshop is taking place February 8 th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm in Fish Creek, Michigan. Designed for memoir writers and fans of food, this workshop will discuss techniques for preserving original memoirs and explore food-related memoirs. If you’re interested in joining, you can call (920) 868-1457 or register via email .

19. UPPAA 2019 Spring Meeting

The UPPAA is a collective of writers that focuses on cultivating literature and writers from the state of Michigan. They are currently organizing their annual UPPAA meeting, to be held on June 1 st , 2019 in Marquette, Michigan. Members of the organization get to attend for free, while non-members only have to pay $15 to attend. The meeting hopes to offer networking opportunities and provide feedback on creative writing projects. You can register online or via mail. Be sure to check back closer to the event’s date for a detailed schedule of events. For general questions, you can contact the UPPAA’s secretary via email .

Do you know of any other creative writing workshops in Michigan? Please tell us about them in the comments box below!

K. Z. Kwan is a freelance writer based out of Halifax, Canada.

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New open textbook takes a detailed look at human disease and pathology.

By Anna Moorhouse on March 7, 2023

Are you a budding pathologist who is curious to see what human disease looks like up close? A new multimedia resource that delves into the science behind disease is now available to health science students, faculty and the general public through UBC Library’s open textbook catalogue. The open text is a result of a collaboration between UBC and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), led by coauthors Dr. Jennifer Kong and Helen Dyck .

Kong holds a dual appointment as the acting manager of the UBC David F. Hardwick Pathology Learning Centre (DHPLC) in Vancouver, and as faculty with Department of Basic Health Sciences at BCIT in Burnaby. Helen Dyck was the DHPLC manager (currently on leave). Together, they collaborated on Pathology: From the Tissue Level to Clinical Manifestations and Inter-professional Care . With funding awarded through the BCIT Open Education Grant and UBC OER Rapid Innovation Grant , Kong and Dyck developed the first three chapters of the open text with the help of undergraduate student Lyz Boyd from the Faculty of Medicine.

While Pathology was created with undergraduate health science students in mind, it’s written in an accessible format, as a beginner’s guide to disease with descriptions for each video, interactive exercises, and an extensive glossary. The text is structured as a highly visual guide to a selection of common diseases like melanoma, cirrhosis and emphysema, using videos and photos of specimens and histology slides to show disease presentation and progression. All the specimens and slides included in the text are from DHPLC’s specialized collections.

While the inclusion of video content and interactive elements make this text such a valuable learning tool, it also made the publication process more complicated.

“It was a massive learning curve on my part,” says Kong, speaking candidly about the process of creating a multimedia resource. Initially hesitant about tackling the more technical aspects of the project, Kong says that working with Erin Fields, Open Education and Scholarly Communications Librarian at UBC Library, made it possible.

“I thought I had to do it on my own,” says Kong. “I think it’s because, as researchers, we always have to do things on our own. You can’t share [your project] with anybody else because you don’t want to get scooped. But this is different because I get to focus on my content, and the library is there to support me with everything else.”

“I always say to faculty, ‘You are focusing on the content because you’re an expert in the content.’ And the library team are experts in how to turn that content into a text” adds Fields.

In turn, Fields notes that Pathology is the biggest and most fulsome open text project that she’s worked on so far, because the textbook makes use of several advanced features: interactive quizzes, anatomy labelling exercises, embedded videos, and even a printable, “flat version” of the text.

“We were able to prove that we could do a multimedia resource,” says Kong, and with that proof, she and Dyck were able to apply for additional funding, through the UBC OER Implementation Grant , UBC Okanagan Provost’s Office and the Irving. K. Barber Faculty of Science, to expand the resource into further chapters.

The new funding also allowed Kong to hire students, who not only helped edit the first three chapters, but were excited to contribute to the writing process and develop video content. “That’s why we have several student authors for each chapter, who now also have something to add to their curriculum vitae and applications,” notes Kong.

The need for open educational resources (OER) at UBC has been steadily increasing since UBC Library started offering support for open textbook publishing in 2019. Fields and her colleagues help UBC faculty and instructors navigate copyright standards, Creative Commons licensing, metadata, and technical support using Pressbooks. The library’s catalogue has grown substantially over the last four years to include 24 open texts that range in subject matter from geography to social psychology.

However, Pathology signals a new wave of medical-related open textbook projects, as Fields notes that the library is receiving an increasing number of requests to support OERs in fields such as nursing, pediatric dermatology, and climate change on health.

“Nursing and medical departments are starting to build open education resources. I always thought that that wasn’t going to happen for fear of content being taken and misused, but I think in the wave of so much misinformation that is already happening, this is a way for people to say that this is the accurate information that needs to get out there,” says Fields. “This is what knowledge exchange looks like for our research team. It has been really exciting to see faculty in medicine getting excited about open access resources, where I think medicine has always been cautious about the idea.”

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