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Canada’s Writing Conference
May 15-18, 2014
Vancouver, BC
Conference Program and Guide
HarperCollins Canada
is proud to be the Founding Sponsor of
Canadian Creative Writers and
Writing Programs
Natalee Caple
9:00 am – 10:15 am
May 16th
Room B315
aNdRew westoll
1:45 pm – 3:00 pm
May 16th
Room B303
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9:00 am – 10:15 am
May 17th
Room B303
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Contents
Welcome......................................................................................................................................... 7
Schedule at a Glance................................................................................................................. 8
Campus Map...............................................................................................................................10
Detailed Map..............................................................................................................................11
Getting Around..........................................................................................................................12
Dining Guide...............................................................................................................................13
Planner..........................................................................................................................................14
Detailed Schedule.....................................................................................................................15
Thursday.....................................................................................................................................15
Friday............................................................................................................................................15
Saturday......................................................................................................................................21
Sunday.........................................................................................................................................28
Participant Biographies..........................................................................................................29
Sponsor List............................................................................................................... Back Cover
CCWWP Board
CCWWP Conference Committee
Chair: Lynne Van Luven
Vice Chair: Joe Kertes
Treasurer: Christian Bök
Secretary: Rob Budde
Student Relations: Ian Kinney
Conference Chair: Andrew Gray
Members: Samantha Warwick, Maureen
Medved, Lisa Murphy-Lamb, Stephen Kimber
Past Chair: Clem Martini
Administrator: Caitlynn Cummings
Elizabeth Bachinsky
Rob Budde
Caitlynn Cummings
Andrew Gray
Aislinn Hunter
Lynne Van Luven
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PENGUIN CANADA,
proud sponsor of CCWWP, presents
JOSEPH
BOYDEN
OFFICIAL KEYNOTE
Thursday, May 15, 8:00 pm
Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC
6354 Crescent Road, Vancouver
Welcome
Chair’s Message
Hello everyone: welcome to Canada’s Writing Conference, the third biennial conference of
CCWWP. Nobody actually had time to count them, but a caboodle of email message and two
years of telephone conference calls have brought us to this point. And who can forget all the
tweets, web posts, Facebooking feints, and letters of invitation that zapped back and forth through
the atmosphere?
Welcome to UBC, to Vancouver and to Canada, if you are one of our international visitors. The
CCWWP Board and its volunteers have organized a great three days of talking, presenting,
reading and interfacing. CCWWP is a seminal organization at a crucial time in its short life, and
we are delighted all of you have decided to join us. Please have a wonderful time; come and say
hello once you get settled. If you have any issues or concerns, please let me–or another member of
the board–know. But mostly: have a great time.
Lynne Van Luven
Board Chair, CCWWP
Conference Committee’s Message
We’d like to thank our generous sponsors and all the many volunteers who’ve helped to put this
together: the reviewers who programmed the panels and presentations, the coordinators of the
cabaret and student readings, and the writing students who’ll be the friendly face of CCWWP at
registration and during the weekend’s events.
We would particularly like to acknowledge the land on which the conference is being held. UBC’s
Point Grey Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Musqueam
people. These lands have always been a place of learning for Musqueam youth, who were
instructed in their culture, history, and tradition, and who in turn shared their knowledge with a
new generation.
Andrew Gray
Conference Chair, CCWWP
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Schedule at a Glance: Thursday & Friday
Thursday May 15, 2014
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Conference Registration & Accommodation heck-in (Walter Gage Lobby)
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Dinner Break
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Official Welcome. Keynote Reading & Conversation with Joseph Boyden
(Frederic Wood Theatre)
9:30 pm - 12:00 am
Welcome Reception (Thea’s Lounge: UBC Graduate Centre)
Friday May 16, 2014
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Conference Registration (Buchanan A Upper Foyer)
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Bookfair (Buchanan A Upper Foyer)
Event 1
The Doubled
Life (CC)
B218
10:15 am -10:45 am
Coffee Break (Buchanan A Upper Foyer)
10:45 am -12:00 pm
(Buchanan B)
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
(Buchanan B)
9:00 am - 10:15 am
(Buchanan B)
Event 5
So You Want
to Start
an Online
Magazine?
(PB) B218
Event 2
Teaching off
the Grid (PD)
B303
Event 3
Know the
Place for the
First Time?
(RD) B309
Event 4
Making Bad: Transgression
in Recent Canadian Novels
(RD) B315
Event 6
What’s the
Matter? (PD)
B303
Event 7
Event 8
3 Poets Read Writing Group for the
(RD) B315
Illiterate & Visually Impaired
(RD) B309
Event 10
Teaching
the Real (PD)
B303
Event 11
Papers:
in the
Classroom
(PD-P) B309
Lunch Break
Event 9
Adaptation
as Metamorphosis (CC)
B218
Event 12
Performance
as a Site of
Research
(RD) B318
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Afternoon Coffee Break (Buchanan A Upper Foyer)
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Plenary Session: First Page Challenge
(Buchanan A Lower Lecture Hall A101)
Event 13
Lit Mag
Reading #1
(RD) B315
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Dinner Break
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Reading & Conversation with Amy Bloom (Frederic Wood Theatre)
9:30 pm - 12:00 am
Literary Cabaret & Reception (Thea’s Lounge: UBC Graduate Centre)
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Schedule at a Glance: Saturday & Sunday
Saturday May 17, 2014
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
10:15 am -10:45 am
10:45 am -12:00 pm
(Buchanan B)
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
(Buchanan B)
9:00 am - 10:15 am
(Buchanan B)
Event 14
Creative
Writing
& English
Studies (CC)
B218
Event 15
Dancing
with the
Other Art(s)
(PD, CC)
B303
Event 16
Comics!
Teaching
the Graphic
Form (PD)
B309
Event 17
A Happy
Talent:
Writers at
Play (RD)
B315
Event 18
Papers:
Polyphonic
Composition
& Lyric Essay
(PD-P) B318
Event 19
Beyond Syd
Field (PD)
B218
Event 20
Reading the
Real (RD)
B303
Event 21
Papers:
Teaching
& Learning
(PD-P) B309
Event 22
All in the
Family (RD)
B315
Event 23
Double Gaze
(CC) B318
Event 25
Papers:
Legitimacy,
PhDs (PD-P)
B303
Event 26
Teaching
Writing for
Media (PD)
B309
Event 27
From MFA
to Page &
Stage. (PB)
B318
Event 28
Lit Mag
Reading #2
(RD) B315
Lunch Break
Event 24
Poems of
Ours We
Hate (CC)
B218
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Plenary Session: Writing Programs in a Global Context
(Buchanan A Lower Lecture Hall A101)
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Dinner Break
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Reading & Conversation with Lisa Moore
(Frederic Wood Theatre)
9:30 pm - 12:00 am
Student Reading Gala & Reception (Thea’s Lounge: UBC Graduate Centre)
Sunday May 18, 2014
9:30 am - 11:00 am
CCWWP AGM (Lecture Hall A101)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm First Meeting of New Board (Mary Murrin 3, Gage Conference Centre)
Key: CC: Craft & Criticism; PD: Pedagogy; RD: Reading: PB: Publishing. A ‘P’ after an event code
designates an assembled group of papers being presented.
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Campus Map
Conference Event Locations
Gage Residences - conference registration and check-in for accommodations on Thursday. Site of
first board meeting (Mary Murrin 3)
Buchanan A: Upper Foyer - conference registration and bookfair on Friday and Saturday
Buchanan A: Lower Lecture Hall - plenary sessions and AGM
Buchanan B (connects to A through Foyer) - panels, presentations and readings, 2nd & 3rd floor
Frederick Wood Theatre - keynotes
Thea’s Lounge (upstairs in UBC Graduate Centre) - evening events and receptions
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Conference Site Map
Around the Conference Site: Lunch & Dinner
Options
Sage Bistro ($$$) is in the University Centre.
Koerner’s Pub ($$) is at the back of the Graduate Centre
(see map insert at right).
The Student Union ($) has the most casual eating options
on campus.
There are many food options on University Boulevard,
including Mahoney’s Pub, One More Sushi, McDonalds,
Vera’s Burgers and more (see larger map on opposite page
plus the dining guide on page 13).
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Getting Around
Arriving from the airport
By taxi
If you want to take a taxi from the airport to UBC, there is 24-hour taxi service. The fare to UBC is
around $50.
By public transport
The Canada Line is part of the SkyTrain rapid-transit system and runs frequently from the airport
to downtown Vancouver. The Canada Line does not go to UBC but runs directly to downtown
from the airport. To go to UBC, get off at Broadway City Hall and take the 99 bus to UBC campus.
Fare (including airport surcharge and transfer from SkyTrain to bus) is $7.75.
Getting around while you’re here
Bus Transportation in and out of campus
Situated on the Point Grey peninsula, west of Vancouver’s downtown, UBC is connected to the rest
of the city by a number of buses, and the campus is a major bus terminus. The number 4, 17, and
44 express buses all go to the downtown core, while the 99 express (B-Line) goes down Broadway.
Both the 99 and 84 expresses connect with the Skytrain system.
More information can be found at translink.ca. There’s also a good mobile site at
m.translink.ca
Please note that there are currently two bus terminals at UBC, the main one (North Bus Loop) and
the Trolley Terminal on University Boulevard. The 4 and 17 buses leave from the Trolley Terminal,
while the 44, 84, and 99 buses leave from the North Bus Loop.
Bus fares (central Vancouver and UBC zone 1): cash: $2.75. Book of 10 tickets: $21 (available in
the Student Union Building store by the postal outlet). Day pass: $9.75.
Parking
The closest parking to the conference is the Rose Garden Parkade located on Chancellor
Boulevard, opposite the Museum of Anthropology. $14 daily max; $7.50 max on weekends.
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Dining Guide
Student Union Building
Upstairs:
Gallery Lounge (food & drinks): Thurs: 9am-1am; Fri: 9am-11pm. Closed Sat/Sun.
Blue Chip (coffee & snacks): Mon-Fri: 7am-7pm; Sat: 9am-6pm; Sun: 9am-3pm.
Pie R Squared (pizza): Mon-Fri: 10am-10pm; Sat-Sun: 11am-9pm.
Pacific Spirit Food Fair: Mon-Fri: Some options from 6:45am to 2pm. Breakfast buffet daily.
Subway (In Pacific Spirit) Mon-Thurs: 8:30am-7pm; Fri: 8:30am-6pm.
Starbucks: Mon-Thu: 7am-7pm; Fri: 7am-6pm; Sat: 8:30am-3pm. Sun: Closed.
Downstairs:
Honour Roll (sushi): Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm; Sat: 11am-3pm; Sun: Closed.
The Moon Noodle Bar: Mon-Fri: 10:30am-6:30pm. Closed weekends.
The Pit Burger Bar (burgers & fries): Mon-Sat: 10:30am-9pm; Sun: Closed.
The Pit Pub: Mon-Fri: 12pm-11pm; Sat 4pm-11pm. Sun: Closed.
The Delly (takeout sandwiches, soups): Mon-Fri: 6:30am-6pm. Closed weekends.
Near Buchanan
Sage Bistro (University Centre). Mon-Fri: 11:30am-2pm. Closed weekends.
Koerner’s Pub (Graduate Centre, rear). Mon-Fri: 11:30am-1am; Sunday brunch 11am-3pm.
Ike’s Cafe (Irving K. Barber Learning Centre). Mon-Thu: 8am-10pm; Fri: 8am-4pm; Sat: 12pm5pm; Sun: 11am-7pm.
Triple-O’s/White Spot (David Lam Building). Mon-Sun: 11am-7pm.
Tim Hortons (David Lam Building). Mon-Fri: 7:30am-4pm. Closed Weekends.
University Boulevard & University Village
Mahoney & Sons. Irish pub and restaurant. Mon-Wed: 11am-12am; Thurs-Fri: 11am-1am;
Sat: 12pm-1am; Sun: 12pm-11pm.
One More Sushi: Mon-Fri: 11am-3pm, 5pm-10pm; Sat: 12pm-10pm. Sun: Closed.
Other fast food locations at University Village: Vera’s Burger Shack, Red Burrito, McDonald’s...
Near UBC
Restaurants nearby on West 10th we like: Burgoo ($$), Provence ($$$). Check out
www.vanmag.com, Yelp, & Urban Spoon for local recommendations.
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Panel & Presentation Planner
Friday May 16, 2014
9am - 10:15am
10:45am - 12pm
1:45pm - 3pm
3:30pm - 5pm
Plenary Session: First Page Challenge
9am - 10:15am
10:45am - 12pm
1:45pm - 3pm
3:30pm - 5pm
Plenary Session: Writing Programs in a Global Context
Thursday, Friday, Saturday Nights
8pm - 9:30pm 9:30pm - 12am 14
Keynote readings
Receptions and special events
Detailed Schedule
Thursday May 15, 2014
12pm – 5pm
Conference Registration & Accommodation Check-in (Gage Conference Centre Lobby)
Attendees who have registered in advance may pick up their registration materials in CCWWP’s
preregistered check-in area, located today in the lobby (Commons Block) of the Gage Conference
Centre (see map on page 10). If you have not yet registered for the conference, passes may be
purchased at the check-in area.
5pm – 7:30pm
Dinner Break (UBC Campus)
Self-scheduled for attendees. See the dining guide on page 13 for suggestions.
8pm – 9:30pm
Official Welcome and Joseph Boyden Keynote Reading (Frederic Wood Theatre)
A reading and conversation with Joseph Boyden. Book sales by Kidsbooks.
9:30pm – 12am
Welcome Reception (Thea’s Lounge: UBC Graduate Centre)
Cash bar.
Friday May 16, 2014
8:30am – 4pm
preregistered check-in area, located in the Foyer of Buchanan A Block (see map on page 10). If you
have not yet registered for the conference, passes may be purchased at the check-in area.
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9am – 5:30pm
Book sales by UBC Bookstore. Representatives from literary magazines and small presses from
across Canada will be present.
9am – 10:15am
Event 1. The Doubled Life (Room B218)
Aritha van Herk, Anne Giardini, Eric Freeze, Shane Book, Robyn Read. Craft & Criticism.
Writers often have a day or night job to support their art and to put bread on the table. That
job can be a digression, an alternative, a refuge, or an inspiration. Writers have served the law,
medicine, banking, and architecture. They make a living at waitressing, drywalling, bar-tending,
copy-editing, advertising, fishing, and exterminating; they are bouncers and cabdrivers and
lighthouse keepers. Some of these labours are a pleasure, some drudgery. But they all have an
impact on a writer’s practice. This panel will explore the “other” work that writers do. How do we
negotiate the distractions, temptations, and time loss? How does that work enhance our writing?
Where do we draw the line between the work of writing and that “other” job?
Event 2. Teaching off the Grid - Teaching Creative Writing Inside and Outside the
Universities and Colleges (Room B303)
Maureen Medved, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Nilofar Shidmehr, Nancy Lee, Katherine Wagner.
Pedagogy.
This panel explores the benefits and challenges of teaching creative writing both within and
outside the universities and colleges. Panelists: Elee Kraljii Gardiner teaches in Vancouver’s
Downtown Eastside; Nilofar Shidmehr teaches in Vancouver’s Iranian community; Nancy Lee
(UBC Creative Writing Program) teaches seniors, teens, and ESL adults; and Katherine Wagner
mentors at Booming Ground, UBC’s online non-credit creative writing program run by creative
writing MFA students. As moderator, Maureen Medved (UBC Creative Writing Program) wants to
explore workshops both on and off the grid to learn how we can enhance the skills of participants
and facilitators.
Event 3. Know the Place for the First Time? (Room B309)
Dee Horne, Leanne Boschman, Dennie Theodore, Karin Weber. Reading.
Four women writers provide divergent perspectives about place and the idea of place across
Canada. Leanne Boschman offers poems about British Columbia from the north coast to
Vancouver Island while Dee Horne has written poems about environment and our relationships
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with the places we co-inhabit. Karin Weber has written a short story about Prince Edward Island,
and Dennie Theodore performs several humorous dramatic monologues about our places in life.
Event 4. Making Bad: Transgression in Recent Canadian Novels (Room B315)
Darryl Whetter, Catherine Bush, Natalee Caple. Reading.
Transgression has animated narrative from The Iliad to Genesis to Crime and Punishment and
beyond. In 2013, three Canadian writer-professors released very different novels of real and/
or perceived transgression. University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA Coordinator Catherine
Bush returns to her trademark shifting moral terrain in Accusation. Former Dalhousie University
creative writing Coordinator Darryl Whetter slips borders of right and wrong in the multigenerational smuggling epic Keeping Things Whole. Brock University professor Natalee Caple
examines the long reach of transgressions of crime, family, and gender in In Calamity’s Wake.
10:15am – 10:45am
10:45am – 12pm
Event 5. So You Want to Start an Online Magazine? (Room B218 )
Lynne Van Luven, Candace Fertile, Nadia Grutter, Andrea Routley, Patrick Close. Publishing.
Want to start your own online publication? It’s easy—and relatively cheap. And time-consuming
and challenging. Hear from UVIC students Patrick Close, Andrea Routley, and Nadia Grutter,
as well as editors Lynne Van Luven and Candace Fertile, who have kept Coastal Spectator going
as an alternate cultural voice for the past two years. Andrea also developed the queer magazine
Plenitude.
Event 6. What’s the Matter? Thinking, Writing, and Teaching through Things (Room B303)
Christine Wiesenthal, Aislinn Hunter, Suzette Mayr, Betsy Warland. Pedagogy.
Attuned to the “explosion” of recent critical interest in “thing theory” and material culture, this
panel will offer a multi-faceted exploration of how and why we write about “things” and how
we can teach our students to engage with the material world in innovative and alert ways. The
panel will encompass both pedagogical and craft-based considerations of the role of “things” in
the writerly imagination, on the page, and in the classroom, probing the power of the external
object world, the dynamic function of “things” in specific literary/cultural texts and/or creative
writing exercises, the traffic between the material and immaterial realms, the relationship between
consumerism and “things” and/or words and “things,” “lost things,” and the problem of nostalgia.
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Event 7. 3 Poets Read (Room B315)
Jaime Denike, Adam Dickinson, Andy Weaver. Reading.
Jaime Denike: The Poetics of Species
These poems investigate material, linguistic, and visual consumption in human and nonhuman
animal encounters and generate a poetics of responsiveness that engages with nonhuman animals
as both objects of representation and as beings with whom we, at times, share this life.
Adam Dickinson: Social Plastics: Polymers and Ecopoetic Writing
Adam Dickinson will read from his new book of poetry The Polymers and discuss the pataphysical
and ecocritical poetics central to the project. The Polymers is an imaginary science project that
combines the discourses, theories, and experimental methods of the science of plastic materials
with the language and culture of plastic behaviour. Through various procedures, constraints, and
formal mutations, the poems express the repeating structures fundamental to plastic molecules as
they appear in cultural and linguistic activities such as arguments, anxieties, and trends.
Andy Weaver: A Reading from This, A Poetry Manuscript
Andy Weaver will read from and discuss the underlying formal and philosophical concerns in his
collection of poems This. By focusing on the role that language plays in mediating our experience
of the world, the poems gesture towards Jean-François Lyotard’s notion of the immanent sublime
(an aspect of every event that we cannot imaginatively apprehend even though we know it exists)
as it pertains to language use. Thus, the poems self-reflexively draw attention to themselves as
created documents that mediate our experience both of themselves and of language in general.
Event 8. Writing Group for the Illiterate and Visually Impaired: Generative Praxis and
Community (Room B309)
Natalie Simpson, Nikki Sheppy, Colin Martin, Jani Krulc, Marc Herman Lynch. Reading.
This cross-genre reading will showcase disparate works born of a collective, localized writing
practice. The Writing Group for the Illiterate and Visually Impaired meets biweekly at a pub in
Calgary, Alberta, and provides its members (poets, short story writers, novelists, translators) with
shared writing time, literary discussion, and exchange of creative ideas. Panelists will read from
their creative writing projects, situating their readings within a discussion of how participating
in this inclusive, informal writing group has enhanced their individual writing processes and
deepened their sense of community.
12pm – 1:45pm
Lunch Break (UBC Campus)
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1:45pm – 3pm
Event 9. Adaptation as Metamorphosis: Because One Life Just Isn’t Enough (Room B218)
Priscila Uppal, Maureen Medved, Daniel Scott Tysdal. Craft & Criticism.
This panel will illuminate the challenges of adaptation across literary and non-literary genres.
Daniel Scott Tysdal asks questions like ‘What would Rilke write for Craiglist?’, ‘How would
MAD magazine have changed Emily Dickinson?’ Maureen Medved, through her own and other
examples, demonstrates how an adaptation must be approached newly and separately from its
source material. Priscila Uppal recently adapted a poem into a memoir and into a play, and she
will offer practical advice on the process.
Event 10. Teaching the Real: Creative Non-Fiction in the University (Room B303)
Andrew Westoll, Julija Šukys, Timothy Taylor, Stephen Kimber. Pedagogy.
This may or may not be the Golden Age of creative non-fiction (CNF). What’s not debatable,
however, is that every year increasing numbers of aspiring writers enrol in classes that focus on the
art and craft of telling true stories. This panel discussion brings four accomplished CNF writer/
instructors together to compare their teaching methods, to share the various solutions that they
have found to instructional challenges, and to debate the merits of practical versus theoretical
approaches to teaching CNF.
Event 11. Papers: In the Classroom (Room B309)
Dawn Bryan, Catherine Hunter, Anna Keefe. Pedagogy, Craft & Criticism.
Dawn Bryan: Rhetoric in the Creative Writing Undergraduate Classroom: What are Readers for?
As creative writing instructors, we teach students to show not tell, to use concrete, specific rather
than abstract, general language, and to find language that defamiliarizes the familiar. but how best
to demonstrate to our students the operation of these foundational ideas? This paper explores the
premise that creative writing teaching at the undergraduate level can benefit from the addition of
a multidisciplinary approach that uses a theoretical construct borrowed from classical rhetoric to
help explain key aspects of craft as taught in the classroom.
Catherine Hunter: Rough Copy: Using Authors’ Drafts to Teach Writing
As Creative Writing teachers know, many cultural myths about artists impede students’ progress.
Possibly, the myth that poems and stories should “flow” spontaneously from the writer is one
of the most destructive. One way to counter this myth is to incorporate the drafts of published
authors into classroom lectures and assignments, so that students can study the authors’ revisions.
After twelve years of using authors’ drafts in a course called The Creative Process, I’m convinced
that this method works both to de-mythologize the writing process and to teach specific elements
of craft.
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Anna Keefe & Ngwatilo Mawiyoo: Inspiring Youth Poets: Artists With a Vision Worth Realizing
Writing poetry can help youth uncover their sense of agency and self-worth as they overcome
challenges and engage productively with personal differences. This presentation will explore what
possibilities can open up for youth when they are treated as artists with a vision worth realizing
and given the support and skills to be courageous in achieving their creative goals together. We
will highlight inspiring practices in teaching poetry with youth, and get interactive with our
audience to explore what it means to learn about different viewpoints and identities through
writing.
Event 12. Performance as a Site of Research (Room B318)
Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Wayde Compton, Jordan Abel, Jen Currin, Ray Hsu. Craft & Criticism,
Reading.
In the crosshairs of language, literature, spoken word, and drama, lies the modern day poetry
reading. What practices do published poets employ to produce a literature that inhabits the aural
as well as the demands of the text? How might poets respond to bpnichol’s dictum: performance as
a site of research? The panelists, in conversation with Renée Sarojini Saklikar, will give short talks
about their poetic practice and their ideas on approaches to poetry.
Event 13. Literary Magazine Group Reading #1 (Room B315)
Elizabeth Bachinsky, Elise Partridge, Doretta Lau, andrea bennett, Jeff Steudel, Elee Kraljii
Gardiner. Reading.
Most writers in Canada get their start in a literary magazine. Pick up a back issue from 10 or
20 years ago and you’ll find the names and early offerings of some of our best writers. Literary
magazines are not only great platforms and great testing grounds, they are also great predictors:
of trends, themes, styles, and movements. This reading brings together 5 writers whose work
demonstrates what’s vital about Canadian literary magazines and Canadian literature. Join us to
hear work by Elise Partridge (Event), Doretta Lau (Ricepaper), andrea bennett (Geist), Jeff Steudel
(subTerrain) and Elee Kraljii Gardiner (Prism). Hosted by Elizabeth Bachinsky.
3pm – 3:30pm
3:30pm – 5pm
Plenary Session: First Page Challenge (Buchanan A Lower Lecture Hall A101)
Elizabeth Bachinsky, Sally Harding, Nancy Lee.
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In this exciting interactive group event, our judges will review the first pages of works of fiction
and creative non-fiction submitted in advance by anonymous conference participants. They’ll
provide quick critiques and answer the burning question: would they keep on reading?
5pm – 7:30pm
8pm – 9:30pm
Amy Bloom Keynote Reading (Frederic Wood Theatre)
Amy Bloom in conversation with Catherine Bush. Book sales by Kidsbooks.
9:30pm – 12am
Literary Cabaret & Reception (Thea’s Lounge, UBC Graduate Centre)
As well as socializing, tonight’s reception features a literary cabaret with performances from Jillian
Christmas, Kevin McPherson Ekhoff/Jake Kennedy, Jordan Abel, Christian Bök and Amber Dawn.
8:30am – 4pm
Buchanan A Upper Foyer. Conference Registration.
preregistered check-in area, located in the Foyer of Buchanan A Block (see map on page 10). If you
have not yet registered for the conference, passes may be purchased at the check-in area.
9am – 5:30pm
Buchanan A Upper Foyer. Bookfair.
Book sales by UBC Bookstore. Representatives from literary magazines and small presses from
across Canada will be present.
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9am – 10:15am
Event 14. Creative Writing and English Studies: Reassessing the Relationship
(Room B218)
Daniel Scott Tysdal, Christian Bök, Larissa Lai, Sharon Thesen. Craft & Criticism.
As a practice, field, and course of study, creative writing has neither a stable nor a uniform
place with regard to English Studies. Indeed, creative writing is often viewed equally as a
heterodox outlier within English departments and as a growth area that might reinvigorate such
departments. How might we reimagine the relationship between creative writing and English?
This session features a short talk by each panelist, followed by a discussion and question period.
Event 15. Dancing with the Other Art(s)—Forms to Edify the Writing Life (Room B303)
Alison Acheson, Richard Scrimger, Cathleen With, Michelle Superle. Craft & Criticism, Pedagogy.
How do we Play when writing becomes Work? And when teaching—and the inevitable
administration—threatens to deaden creating and guiding others through the process? Four
working writers and writing instructors share the art forms that edify and sustain—from the more
obvious of music, dance, and visual art, to expanding ideas of ‘form’...even to the risky! How do we
discover these forms...or do they find us? How do we weave them into our lives? And how do they
find their way out to the world?
Event 16. Comics! Teaching the Graphic Form in Creative Writing Programs (Room B309)
Sarah Leavitt, Taylor Brown-Evans, Mary Schendlinger. Pedagogy.
In this lively panel discussion, three comics creators who also teach will discuss their approaches
to teaching students to create comics. How do we embolden creative writing students to try
making comics for the first time? How do we use comics creation in visual studies and cultural
theory classes? If you “can’t draw,” can you still take a comics class? The discussion will be followed
by a slideshow of the panelists’ own work.
Event 17. A Happy Talent: Writers at Play (Room B315)
Patrick Downes, Michele Irwin, Elise Levine. Readings.
It is a ‘happy talent,’ Emerson says, ‘to know how to play.’ A happy talent with serious rewards,
play leads to discovery, innovation, and pleasure. It refreshes us, our minds and spirits, and our
work. This cross-genre panel of poets and prose writers, writers for both children and adults, will
explore, discuss, and inspire writers’ play.
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Event 18. Papers: Polyphonic Composition & Lyric Essay (Room B318)
Clare Goulet, Lorri Neilsen Glenn. Pedagogy, Craft & Criticism.
Clare Goulet: To Write as the Composer Composes: Research-based Creative Polyphonic
Composition for University
The close relationship of music and poetry, of music and literature is long established, at least as
far back as the marriage, in Greek mythology, of Harmonia to Cadmus, bringer of the alphabet:
a polyphonic assignment offers students the challenges and pleasures of technical enactment of
that relationship, an arrangement and interweaving of voices, “the musical handling of the art of
writing.” Polyphonic pieces’ “resonant, multi-voiced, musically arranged structures” draw on an
arrangement of original writing and researched material and make for challenging projects well
suited to university-level study of creative writing.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn: The Lyric Essay: Writing and Learning in a New Key
Part poem, part meditation, braided, layered or bricolage, the lyric essay is an innovative and
challenging form. What are its boundaries, its defining elements? How do writers approach and
mentors support the work involved in the creation of the lyric essay? This session will combine a
paper, discussion, and a short workshop focusing specifically on creative nonfiction’s unique blend
of poetry and prose.
10:15am – 10:45am
10:45am – 12pm
Event 19. Beyond Syd Field: Rethinking Screenwriting Pedagogy (Room B218)
Sara Graefe, Amnon Buchbinder, Linda Svendsen, Patricia Gruben. Pedagogy.
Since the publication of Syd Field’s seminal text Screenplay almost thirty-five years ago, threeact dramatic structure has been the cornerstone of screenwriting pedagogy in post-secondary
Creative Writing and Film programs. Four screenwriting professors come together to discuss
the pros and cons of the three-act paradigm as a primary teaching tool, and to consider
complementary and alternative ways to approach teaching storytelling for the screen.
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Event 20. Reading the Real: A Convergence of Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry
(Room B303)
Andrew Westoll, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Sharanpal Ruprai. Reading
In this cross-genre reading event, poets and non-fiction writers grapple with the idea of “the
real.” From deep inside the minds of traumatized chimpanzees to an amusement park that
existed nowhere but the imagination to the relationship between Sikh women and the Canadian
landscape, these writers bring their own unique interpretations of the truth to the challenge that
we all face: how should we engage with everyday reality in order to comprehend it?
Event 21. Papers: Teaching & Learning (Room B309)
Catherine Bush, W. Mark Giles, Nina Johnson. Pedagogy.
Catherine Bush: Passion or Dispassion: Can We Love What We Teach And/or Teach What We
Love?
What might the contentious issue of ‘teaching what you love’ mean when it comes to approaching
published texts in the creative writing classroom? I propose to interview colleagues about how
they contend with teaching what they love (or not). I also intend to examine my own practices.
Is it possible to use the word ‘love’ in relation to the texts we teach? Or does that risk seeming too
subjective or advocating for one kind of writing over another? If we dare not speak of love, how do
we convey to our students that literature is an art that matters?
Mark Giles: Making Belief: crypto-Buddha, quasi-Spinoza, fake-Moses and the Yearning for
Learning
Creativity cannot be taught. Creativity cannot be learned. I teach creative writing at a university.
Something’s gotta give. Many students arrive in a creative writing seminar looking to exercise
those ‘intuitive tools’ which are so effectively exorcised in the rationalized neoliberal postsecondary environment. And yet they are also eager for measurable and systematic progress
(rather than process). The instructor’s role is to make belief, to give permission to recognize the
creativity that they inherently possess. I propose the instructor must simultaneously adopt three
personae to negotiate the paradoxes: crypto-Buddha, quasi-Spinoza, and fake-Moses.
Nina Johnson: Labyrinths and Student Learning: Mindfulness and Creativity Research Results
This paper will present the research results from a pilot project titled “Labyrinths and Student
Learning: The Effects of Contemplative Practices on Anxiety, Concentration, and Creativity.” The
study investigated the relationships between mindfulness practice using finger labyrinths and the
potential to reduce anxiety, improve concentration, and enhance creativity. The study involved
a Creative Writing class (ENGL 2060: Introduction to Short Fiction) in the Fall 2013 semester
at TRU and collected data using pre-tests, journal surveys, test surveys, and focus groups. This
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project combined contemplative scholarship and
neuroscience to support transformational learning for Creative Writing students.
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Event 22. All in the Family: Writing the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Aspects of Family in
Novels and Memoir (Room B315)
Priscila Uppal, David Chariandy, Joseph Kertes. Reading.
Three authors will read from and discuss the complexity of representing family dynamics in
literary fiction and non-fiction. David Chariandy will present his first novel, Soucouyant and his
second novel, Brother, both concerned with family secrets. Joseph Kertes will present The Afterlife
of Stars, a novel about a young Hungarian family fleeing the Russians in 1956, just as the invaders
are pulling down the Iron Curtain. Priscila Uppal will present Projection: Encounters with My
Runaway Mother, an account of a bizarre twelve-day trip in Brazil with the estranged mother who
abandoned the author, her brother, and their quadriplegic father twenty years previous.
Event 23. Double Gaze: Straddling the Creative/Critical Divide (Room B318)
Natalie Meisner, Aritha van Herk, Clint Burnham, Donia Mounsef. Craft & Criticism.
A roundtable discussion with writers who theorize and academics who write. Are there rules
(spoken or unspoken) stating that we ought to all keep to our proper domains? It can often seem
as though there is a kind of suspicion aimed at a creative work that suddenly bursts forth from
a heretofore standard academic. And yet years spent thinking and theorizing and turning over
ideas about writing are just the ideal conditions to foment enduring and innovative works of
literature. On the other hand, does creativity contain an element of the mysterious despite any
study or investigation? Does reading theory support or deny the creative process? Or perhaps the
codification of theory vs. creative writing is itself a fiction?
12pm – 1:45
Lunch Break (UBC Campus)
1:45pm – 3:00pm
Event 24. Poems Of Ours We Hate (Room B218)
Stephanie Bolster, Barbara Nickel, Christopher Patton. Craft & Criticism.
If we hope to evolve as writers, moving beyond our past work is inevitable. Whether the
disenchantment sets in during the initial draft or accrues over a period of years, whether
it involves others’ assessments or only our own, whether it manifests itself as boredom,
embarrassment, or revulsion, it can be as instructive as it is unsettling. What can we learn about
poetry and about ourselves, from these responses? How to trust that the important line or poem is
the one about to be written, while honouring its cringe-inducing ancestors?
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Event 25. Papers: Legitimacy & PhDs (Room B303)
Jeremy Stewart, Darryl Whetter. Pedagogy.
Jeremy Stewart: ‘Legitimacy Warz:’ Creative Writing Pedagogy and Being a Real Writer
The increasing institutionalization of writing, represented by the growth of the academic discipline
of Creative Writing, has precipitated a cultural identity crisis. Writers are supposed to be romantic
rebels and outsiders: mad, bad, and dangerous to know. How are we to reconcile that with their
newfound status and security as academics, that privileged minority, insulated from the world in
their ivory towers? Taking an approach that is scholarly and personal, serious and satirical, I argue
for a pragmatics of realness, historicizing it, and treating it as an economy of signification. Arming
writers and scholars with the weapons of ‘Legitimacy Warz.’
Darryl Whetter: Dr. No: Canada’s Globally Anomalous Disinterest in Creative Writing PhDs
The number of Canadian CW masters’ programs doubled in the 2000s, yet the number of
anglophone CW PhD programs has remained stagnant since the late ‘90s while the rest of the
anglophone world regularly expands creative doctoral programs. Drawing on material accepted
for inclusion in Creative Writing in the 21st Century: Pedagogy, Research, and Practice (Eds. Priscila
Uppal and Rishma Dunlop), this paper wonders why Canadian doctoral literary education still
prefers writing about to writing.
Event 26. Teaching Writing for Media (Room B309)
Michael V. Smith, Aaron Goodman, Nicola Harwood. Pedagogy.
Capitalizing on social networking and the influence of (new) media on art production, these
instructors share their experiences teaching students how to make quality writing projects using
media. From writing within software programs like Second Life, to making experimental films, to
site-specific installations, to writing for broadcast in apps, come hear some ideas for how to help a
new generation of tech-savvy students make writing that matters.
Event 27. From MFA to Page and Stage (Room B318)
Frances Backhouse, Peter Boychuk, Aaron Shepard, Melanie Siebert, Philip Adams. Publishing.
Part 1. From MFA to Page and Stage: Getting Your Thesis Published or Produced
Frances Backhouse, Peter Boychuk, Aaron Shepard, Melanie Siebert.
While most grad students aspire to publication in scholarly journals, creative writing MFAs dream
of seeing their words flow to audiences through bookstores or theatres. Join four MFA graduates–a
poet, a playwright, a fiction writer, and a literary journalist–who have cleared the publishing/
production hurdle and learn about the challenges, surprises, and rewards entailed in this leap. The
panelists will discuss issues such as the constraints (and freedoms) created by having an eye on
the buying public and the delicate post-thesis revision process, and offer advice on persevering
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through endless submissions, leveraging ongoing opportunities out of initial success, and more.
Part 2. Writers Reading in public
Philip Adams.
Writers struggle to put words on the page so that they are clear, impactful, make the intended
impression, and aren’t boring. So why would that writer want to bore an audience at a public
reading? Why would a nervous flush and a quavering voice hold the attention of an audience? It
is not what we want. It is not what we strive for on the page. So why would we settle for anything
less from the stage? There are few things that we can do to ensure that our words say what we want
them to. It is vital to marketing our work because those listeners, once moved by our performance,
may very well go to the back of the room and purchase our books.
Event 28. Literary Magazine Group Reading #2 (Room B315)
Aislinn Hunter, Clea Young, Kayla Czaga, ryan fitzpatrick, Lori Mcnulty, Joelle Barron. Reading.
Most writers in Canada get their start in a literary magazine. Pick up a back issue from 10 or
20 years ago and you’ll find the names and early offerings of some of our best writers. Literary
magazines are not only great platforms and great testing grounds, they are also great predictors:
of trends, themes, styles, and movements. This reading brings together 5 writers whose work
demonstrates what’s vital about Canadian literary magazines and Canadian literature. Join us to
hear work by Clea Young (The Fiddlehead), Kayla Czaga (Arc), ryan fitzpatrick (filling Station),
Lori Mcnulty (The New Quarterly), and Joelle Barron (The Malahat Review). Hosted by Aislinn
Hunter.
3pm – 3:30pm
3:30pm – 5pm
Plenary Session: Writing Programs in a Global Context (Buchanan A Lower Lecture Hall
A101)
Lynne Van Luven, Jen Webb, Paul Hetherington, Robin Reagler, Paul Munden.
Join members of international writer’s associations in conversation with Lynne Van Luven,
CCWWP Chair. Featuring Jen Webb (AAWP, Australia), Paul Hetherington (AAWP, Australia),
Robin Reagler (AWP, United States), and Paul Munden (NAWE, UK).
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5pm – 7:30pm
8pm – 9:30pm Lisa Moore Keynote Reading (Frederic Wood Theatre)
Lisa Moore in conversation with Aislinn Hunter from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Books for
sale.
9:30pm – 12am
Student Reading Gala & Reception (Thea’s Lounge, UBC Graduate Centre)
In addition to the reception, we’ll be hosting a student reading gala at 10:30pm. This event will
sample and celebrate the diversity of work from students in creative writing programs across
Canada.
Sunday May 18, 2014
9:30am – 11am
CCWWP Annual General Meeting (Buchanan A Lower Lecture Hall A101)
All membership invited and welcome. We will elect new board members and discuss the next
conference.
11:30am – 12:30pm
First meeting of new board (Mary Murrin 3, Gage Conference Centre)
Current and new board members only.
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Participant Biographies
Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer who resides in Vancouver. His work has been published in many journals and
magazines across Canada, including CV2, Prairie Fire, and Canadian Literature. His first book, The Place
of Scraps, was recently published by Talonbooks. Event 12 and Literary Cabaret.
Alison Acheson has published seven books, from picture books to short fiction for adults. Mud Girl was a
finalist for CLA Book of the Year. Grandpa’s Music is IBBY-listed. She teaches for the UBC Writing Centre
as well as through her own website writerswebworkshop.com. Event 15.
Philip Adams is the Executive Director of Sage Hill Writing Experience in Saskatchewan. He was the Artistic
Manager at Diaspora Dialogues for five years, recruiter and job developer and comptroller at Sheridan
College’s Canadian Journalism for Internationally Trained Writers, and worked in the theatre most of his
life. He has written for the stage and directed the premieres of over two dozen plays. Event 27.
Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of five collections of poetry. Her work has been nominated for awards
including the Pat Lowther Award, The Kobzar Literary Award, The George Ryga Award for Social
Awareness in Literature, the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the Bronwen Wallace Award. She
lives in Vancouver, where she is an instructor of creative writing. Event 13 and Plenary Session: First
Page Challenge.
Frances Backhouse has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Victoria and is the author
of five nonfiction books, including Children of the Klondike, which won the 2010 City of Victoria Butler
Book Prize. Beaver! will be published by ECW Press in spring 2015. Her work also appears in Campus
Confidential: A Univerisity of Victoria Modern Love Anthology and numerous periodicals. Event 27.
Joelle Barron recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing at UBC. She is originally from a small town
in northern Ontario and plans to return one day to start a goat farm. Her poem “A Girl Like This Might
Have Loved Glenn Gould” recently won the Malahat Review’s Open Season Award. Event 28.
andrea bennett’s writing has appeared in magazines and literary journals across North America. Her debut
book of poetry, Canoodlers, came out with Nightwood Editions this spring. In 2013, her long form
nonfiction received an honourable mention in the politics and public interest category at the National
Magazine Awards. Visit her at andreabennett.ca. Event 13.
Amy Bloom is the author of two novels, three collections of short stories, and a nominee for both the
National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best
American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous anthologies. She has written for
The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic Monthly. Her novel, Lucky Us, (Random
House) will be out in early 2014. She lives in Connecticut and taught at Yale University for the last decade.
She is now Wesleyan University’s Writer-in-Residence. Keynote on Friday May 16.
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Shane Book’s debut collection, Ceiling of Sticks (University of Nebraska Press) won the Prairie Schooner
Book Prize in Poetry and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Oakland-based
speCt! books recently published his chapbook, Flagelliforms. His award winning films are screening in
festivals, galleries, and on television, worldwide. Event 1.
Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald
Lampert Memorial Award, and Eunoia (2001), a best-selling work of experimental literature, which won
the Griffin Prize. Bök teaches English at the University of Calgary. Event 14 and Literary Cabaret.
Stephanie Bolster has published four books of poetry, most recently A Page from the Wonders of Life on
Earth (Brick 2011), and edited three others. A winner of the Governor General’s Award, she teaches in
and coordinates the creative writing program at Concordia University in Montreal. Event 24.
Leanne Boschman is a prairie transplant to the West Coast. Her poems have appeared in Other Voices,
Dandelion Magazine, Geist Magazine, Prism International, Room, and Rhubarb and in several anthologies.
Leanne’s first collection of poems, entitled Precipitous Signs: A Rain Journal, was published by Leaf Press
in 2009. Event 3.
Peter Boychuk’s thesis play, Shelter from the Storm, was produced by Touchstone Theatre (in association
with PTC) at the Firehall Arts Centre in 2012. His one-act plays include Afterglow, Fortunate Son (a
Stanley Mills Purchase Prize winner) and Fritters in Kandahar (winner of the Solo Collective/Vancouver
Playhouse Emerging Writers Competition). Event 27.
Joseph Boyden’s first novel, Three Day Road, was selected for the Today Show Book Club, won the Rogers
Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award, the Amazon.ca/Books
in Canada First Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. His
second novel, Through Black Spruce, was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named the Canadian
Booksellers Association Fiction Book of the Year. His latest novel, The Orenda, won CBC / Canada Reads
2014. Keynote on Thursday May 15.
Taylor Brown-Evans is a writer, illustrator and cartoonist living in Vancouver. His work has appeared in
Geist, Matrix, The Feathertale Review, The Moosehead Anthology as well as alternative press zines and
chapbooks. He writes educational content for the English School Board of Quebec. Event 16.
Dawn Bryan is a PhD student in English at the University of Calgary, where her research into visual culture
and its textual analogues involves a new novel about the work of 18th-century printmaker William
Hogarth. Her first novel Gerbil Mother was published by NeWest in 2008. Event 11.
Amnon Buchbinder is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film at York University. He is a director,
screenwriter and author. As a follow-up to his book The Way of the Screenwriter (House of Anansi Press),
he is working on the interactive documentary and book, Biology of Story. Event 19.
Clint Burnham is the author of, among other books, Airborne Photo (short fiction, 1999), Smoke Show
(novel, 2005), The Benjamin Sonnets (poetry, 2009), and The Only Poetry that Matters (criticism, 2011). He
teaches at Simon Fraser University. Event 23.
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Catherine Bush is the author of four novels, Accusation, the Trillium-Award-shortlisted Claire’s Head, The
Rules of Engagement (chosen as a New York Times Notable Book), and Minus Time. She is Coordinator of
the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA. Events 4 and 21.
Natalee Caple is a fiction-writing professor at Brock University and the author of seven books of poetry and
fiction, including In Calamity’s Wake. Natalee’s work has been optioned for film, nominated for a National
Magazine Award, the Journey Prize, the Bronwen Wallace Award, and the Eden Mills Fiction Award.
Event 4.
David Chariandy is a Canadian writer and one of the co-founders of Commodore Books. His debut novel
Soucouyant was nominated for ten literary prizes and awards, including the IMPAC, Giller Prize, and
Governor General’s Award. He is an Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. Event 22.
Jillian Christmas was born and raised in Markham, Ontario. She currently lives in Vancouver, BC, where
she serves as Artistic Director of Verses Festival of Words. Jillian is an enthusiastic organizer and activist
in the Canadian arts community, her focus being to increase anti-oppression initiatives in spoken word.
She has participated in, developed, and executed programs in partnership with Toronto Poetry Project,
Wordplay, Brendan McLeod’s Travelling Slam, and the CULTCH Mentorship. Literary Cabaret
Patrick Close is a newly minted graduate of the University of Victoria, the editor of The Warren, and an art
enthusiast. Event 5.
Wayde Compton is the author of poetry, essays, and an anthology of Black British Columbian writers. 49th
Parallel Psalm was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2000. After Canaan: Essays on Race,
Writing, and Region was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award 2011. Event 12.
Jen Currin has published three collections of poetry: The Sleep of Four Cities; Hagiography; and most
recently, The Inquisition Yours (2010), which won the 2011 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. She
lives in Vancouver and teaches English at Vancouver Community College. Event 12.
Kayla Czaga won The Malahat Review’s 2012 Far Horizons Award for poetry and The Fiddlehead’s 23rd
Annual Ralph Gustafson poetry prize. As well as ARC Poetry Magazine, her writing has appeared in The
Walrus, The Literary Review of Canada, The New Quarterly, Best Canadian Poetry in English, and Event
among others. Her first collection of poetry, For Your Safety Please Hold On, is forthcoming this October
with Nightwood Editions. She lives in Vancouver where she is completing her MFA at UBC. Event 28.
Amber Dawn is a writer, filmmaker, and performance artist, and the author of the Lambda Award-winning
novel Sub Rosa and the memoir How Poetry Saved My Life (winner of the Vancouver Book Award).
She is also editor of Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire and co-editor of With a
Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn. She has an MFA in Creative Writing (UBC), and her award-winning
docuporn Girl on Girl has been screened in eight countries. Literary Cabaret.
Jaime Denike is an MFA student in Creative Writing at UBC. She co-organized “The Art of Critique:
Writing, Communal Difference and Different Communities” workshop, which brought together
celebrated writers including J. M. Coetzee and Paul Auster. She has acted as an editor for creative writing
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magazines and has published poetry and fiction in magazines such as The Capilano Review and Iamb.
Event 7.
Adam Dickinson is a writer, researcher and teacher. His poems have appeared in literary journals in Canada
and internationally. His most recent book, The Polymers, was a finalist for the 2013 Governor General’s
Award for Poetry. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Brock University
in St. Catharines, Ontario, where he teaches poetics and creative writing. Event 7.
Patrick Downes writes for both children and adults. His picture book, Angus Runs Away (Scholastic), and a
novel, Fell of Dark (Penguin), are forthcoming in 2015. Event 17.
Candace Fertile teaches English at Camosun College. She is a much-published book reviewer and the poetry
editor of Coastal Spectator. Event 5.
Eric Freeze is the author of Dominant Traits (stories, 2012) and Hemingway on a Bike (essays, forthcoming
in 2014). He has published in numerous periodicals, including Boston Review, The Southern Review, and
Harvard Review. An Albertan, he currently teaches creative writing at Wabash College in Indiana. His has
a double life as a visual artist. Event 1.
ryan fitzpatrick is a former editor of filling Station and is one of the organizers of Calgary’s Choose Yer Own
Festival. Recent work of his has appeared in The Capilano Review, Poetry is Dead, and the Enpipe Line
Anthology. His most recent work is the chapbook 21st Century Monsters (Red Nettle Press, 2012). Fake
Math is his first book-length collection. Event 28.
Elee Kraljii Gardiner directs Thursdays Writing Collective and is co-editor with John Asfour of V6A: Writing
from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, which was shortlisted for the 2012 City of Vancouver Book Award.
Her poetry earned the 2011 Lina Chartrand Poetry Award and is published in journals and anthologies.
Events 2 and 13.
Anne Giardini is the author of two novels, The Sad Truth About Happiness and Advice for Italian Boys, as
well as articles and short stories. She is president of Weyerhaeuser Company Limited, and previously
served as Weyerhaeuser’s Canadian General Counsel. As a lawyer, she has published on aboriginal rights
and industry and on in-house corporate practice in Canada. Event 1.
W. Mark Giles currently splits his time between Calgary and Halifax. His book Knucklehead won the City
of Calgary Book Award. His fiction, poetry and non-fiction has been published widely in Canadian
periodicals. An excerpt from his novel Seep (seeking a publisher) was recently published in Prism
International. He is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dalhousie. Event 21.
Aaron Goodman is a multimedia reporter, writer, and instructor. His journalism stories about conflict,
natural disaster, and social issues in Canada and around the world have been broadcast by CBC Radio,
PBS Frontline/WORLD, Associated Press Television News, and VOA. His digital storytelling organization,
StoryTurns offers workshops for organizations specializing in health and human services, youth, and
education (facebook.com/storyturnsworkshop). Event 26.
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Clare Goulet teaches creative writing, editing, and poetry at Mount Saint Vincent University. She has
edited for Brick Books and Gaspereau Press. She has published essays on metaphor, poetry, creative
insight in science, lyric scholarship, pedagogy, and punctuation. A contributing co-editor of Lyric Ecology
(Cormorant, 2010), her novel Lift is forthcoming from Wolsak & Wynn in 2014. Event 18.
Sara Graefe is a faculty member in the Optional-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at UBC. A
writer and story editor for film and television, she comes to screen from a background in theatre. Her TV
writing credits include a five-season stint on CBC-TV’s youth series Edgemont. Event 19.
Patricia Gruben is Associate Professor of Film in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser
University and director of Praxis Centre for Screenwriters. She has written and directed three featurelength films and various shorts and has published articles on narrative structure in contemporary Western
and Indian films. Event 19.
Nadia Grutter is a fourth-year student with the Department of Writing and managing editor of Coastal
Spectator at the University of Victoria. Event 5.
Sally Harding is a literary agent and co-owner of the Cooke Agency and Cooke International. She represents
authors from all over the world and is on the board of the Vancouver Writers’ Festival. Plenary Session:
First Page Challenge.
Nicola Harwood is a playwright, director and interdisciplinary artist. She is curating a team of artists to
create High Muck-a-Muck: Playing Chinese, an interactive media project. Nicola teaches Creative Writing
at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Event 26.
Paul Hetherington is the current president of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs and director
of the International Poetry Studies Institute, based in the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research,
University of Canberra. An internationally known poet, he is the head of discipline for journalism and
creative writing at the University of Canberra. Plenary Session: Writing Programs in a Global Context.
Dee Horne is a poet and an editor of Scroll in Space, an online literary journal, and Scroll Press. She has
published in literary journals around the world. She is a full professor in the English Department at
UNBC where she teaches creative writing and contemporary literature. Event 3.
Ray Hsu is author of Anthropy (Gerald Lampert Award) and Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon. He is also
co-founder of ROOM+BOARD and Art Song Lab. He taught writing in a U.S. prison for two years before
giving a TED talk. Find him at thewayofray.com. Event 12.
Aislinn Hunter is a novelist, poet, and academic. Her most recent book, A Peepshow with Views of the
Interior: paratexts, is a decentred investigation of ‘things’ based on her PhD work at The University of
Edinburgh. Her new novel The World Before Us will be published by Doubleday Canada in September
2014, and in the US and UK in January 2015. She teaches Creative Writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic
University. Events 6 and 28.
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Catherine Hunter is a poet and novelist who teaches Creative Writing, including The Creative Process
course, at the University of Winnipeg. Event 11.
Michele Irwin earned her MFA in Writing at Vermont College and is finishing a doctorate at the
University of Toronto. She has presented papers internationally on writing process and pedagogy and
is a contributing editor for the forthcoming, Teaching from the Thinking Heart: The Practice of Holistic
Education. She is at work on a Middle Grade series and a novel. Event 17.
Nina Johnson is a literature and creative writing instructor in the English and Modern Languages
Department at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops. She is a certified Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator
and a member of The Labyrinth Society Research Committee. As a TRU Teaching and Learning Scholar,
she researches the relationship between mindfulness and creativity. Event 21.
Anna Keefe is dedicated to teaching poetry, storytelling and leadership skills with youth and their
communities. She graduated with a Master’s of Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of
Education (2008) and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Literacy and Language Education at the University of British
Columbia. Event 11.
Jake Kennedy’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Pissing Ice Anthology: New Canadian
Poets, Drunken Boat, Kiss Machine, and The Diagram. His BookThug chapbook entitled Hazard won the
2006 bpnichol Chapbook Award. Most recently, Jake received the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative
Poetry for The Lateral, forthcoming from Snare Books. Literary Cabaret.
Joseph Kertes’s first novel, Winter Tulips, won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. His latest, Gratitude,
won a Canadian National Jewish Book Award and the U.S. National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. He is
Dean of the School of Creative & Performing Arts at Humber College in Toronto. Event 22.
Stephen Kimber is an award-winning author of 10 books. His latest, What Lies Across the Water: The Real
Story of the Cuban Five, was published in 2013. Co-founder of the University of King’s College’s new MFA
in Creative Nonfiction, he is Interim Director of the School of Journalism. Event 10.
Jani Krulc has an MA in English from Concordia University and a BA (Honours) from the University of
Calgary. Her first book, a collection of short stories called The Jesus Year, was published in the spring of
2013. She lives in Calgary with her partner and their animals. Event 8.
Larissa Lai is the author of two novels, When Fox Is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl, and two books of
poetry, sybil unrest (with Rita Wong) and Automaton Biographies. A recipient of the Astraea Foundation
Emerging Writers’ Award, she has been shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Tiptree
Award, and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She is an Assistant Professor in English at the University of British
Columbia. Event 14.
Doretta Lau is a journalist, poet and fiction writer. She completed an MFA in Writing at Columbia
University. Her writing has appeared in many magazines and in 2013 she was a finalist for the Journey
Prize. How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? is her debut short story collection. Event 13.
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Sarah Leavitt is a writer and cartoonist. Her first book, Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and
Me, a graphic memoir, has been published in Canada, the US, UK, and Germany to critical acclaim. She
leads comics/writing/drawing workshops at various locations, including the UBC Department of Creative
Writing. Event 16.
Nancy Lee is an assistant professor in Creative Writing at UBC. She has served as Writer-in-Residence for
the University of East Anglia, Historic Joy Kogawa House, and most recently for the city of Vincennes,
France, and the city of Richmond. She is the author of The Age and Dead Girls. Event 2 and Plenary
Session: First Page Challenge.
Elise Levine is the author of the story collection Driving Men Mad and the novel Requests and Dedications
(both with McClelland & Stewart). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including
Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, and Best Canadian Stories. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of
Creative Writing at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. Event 17.
Marc Herman Lynch is a novelist and poet. He graduated from the University of Calgary’s creative writing
MA program in 2012. As an active member of the Calgary community, he volunteers with the flywheel
reading series and teaches creative writing to young writers at the Wordsworth Writing Camp. Event 8.
Colin Martin has been President of the filling Station Publications Society for the past eight years. He has
published poetry, fiction, and scholarly work in several Canadian journals and is currently at work on a
project that employs obsolete business communications technology to examine the way trends in digital
skeuomorphic design interfaces contribute to a fracturing of professional identities. Event 8.
Ngwatilo Mawiyoo is a native of Nairobi, Kenya, and has built a name for herself as a poet, performer,
Actress, and musician. Ngwatilo’s book of poems, Blue Mothertongue (2010), is set in Nairobi and the
African diaspora around notions of home and identity. She studies Creative Writing in UBC’s MFA
program. Event 11.
Suzette Mayr is the author of four novels including Monoceros, which won the ReLit Award and the W.O.
Mitchell Book Prize, and which was longlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize. She has been a writer-inresidence at the University of Calgary and at Widener University, Pennsylvania, and is a former President
of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. Event 6.
Lori McNulty has been published numerous literary magazines. Her story “Monsoon Season” is forthcoming
in this year’s Journey Prize Anthology. She is at work on a collection of short fiction and a novel. Lori holds
an MA in English from McGill and an MFA from UBC. Event 28.
kevin mcpherson eckhoff ’s visual poetry has appeared in the anthology Boredom Fighters (Tightrope Books)
and in such magazines as dandelion and filling Station. A winner of the Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook
Award, he studied English literature at the University of Calgary. He recently traded his life for a house in
Armstrong, British Columbia, and a job teaching literature at Okanagan College. Literary Cabaret.
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Maureen Medved’s novel The Tracey Fragments was published by House of Anansi Press and her screen
adaption won awards, including at the 57th Berlinale. Her writing has been published and produced for
stage and screen. Maureen is an Associate Professor at UBC. Events 2 and 9.
Natalie Meisner’s plays have been produced across the country, most recently by Gateway Theatre (Burning
In), Solo Collective (Pink Sugar) and Lunchbox Theatre (Speed Dating for Sperm Donors). Her book,
Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family, is forthcoming from Fernwood Publishing. She is an
Associate Professor in the Department of English at Mount Royal University. Event 23.
Lisa Moore is the author of the short fiction collections Degrees of Nakedness and Open, and the novels
Alligator, February, and Caught. Alligator won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize best book award
and was longlisted for the IMPAC Award. February was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won CBC /
Canada Reads competition in 2013. Keynote on Saturday May 17.
Donia Mounsef is Associate Professor of drama and études théâtrales at the University of Alberta. She is the
author of Chair et révolte dans le théâtre de Bernard-Marie Koltès (l’Harmattan, 2005) and the co-editor of
The Transparency of the Text (Yale French Studies, 2007). Her creative work has been published in various
American and Canadian journals. Event 23.
Paul Munden worked as a creative writing tutor in adult education and for various universities, before
becoming Director of NAWE, the National Association of Writers in Education (UK). He received an Eric
Gregory Award in 1987 and his poems have appeared in many anthologies, including the Faber Book of
Movie Verse, Faber’s Poetry Introduction 7, and Quintet. For the British Council, he has been the Writer-inResidence at several Anglo-Swiss conferences. He is the editor of Feeling the Pressure: Poetry and Science of
Climate Change (British Council 2008). Plenary Session: Writing Programs in a Global Context.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s work includes 13 books of nonfiction and poetry. Former Halifax Poet Laureate, she
is editor of Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s (2013, in its 3rd printing) and
Threading Light, a collection of lyric essays on loss. She is a mentor in University of King’s College MFA
Creative nonfiction program and on faculty at Mount Saint Vincent in Halifax. Event 18.
Barbara Nickel’s books of poetry are The Gladys Elegies, which won the Pat Lowther Award, and Domain
(Anansi, 2007), with recent poems published in Event and The Walrus. Also an award-winning author of
books for children, she lives and writes in Yarrow, B.C. Event 24.
Elise Partridge’s poems have appeared in journals including The New Yorker, The Walrus, Poetry, The
Fiddlehead, and The Yale Review. She is the author of Fielder’s Choice (shortlisted for the Lampert Award)
and Chameleon Hours (shortlisted for the BC Book Prize and winner of the Canadian Authors Association
Poetry Award). Elise has taught and edited for many years; recently she was poet-in-residence for Arc
Magazine. Event 13.
Christopher Patton has published three books, among them Ox (Signal 2007), a volume of poetry, and
Curious Masonry (Gaspereau 2011), a volume of translations from Old English. He teaches creative
writing and literature at Western Washington University. Event 24.
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Robyn Read is a writer and Managing Editor of The Banff Centre Press; she is developing the press as a
transmedia and digital publisher of the work created at The Banff Centre, and as a commissioner of
innovative written work. She worked as a freelance editor for a number of presses and was the Acquiring
Editor for Freehand Books in Calgary from 2009-2011. Event 1.
Robin Reagler leads Writers In The Schools Houston. She also heads the WITS Alliance, a national
consortium of literary arts education groups. She has an MFA from Iowa and a PhD from the University
of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her writing has been published widely in books and journals such
as Ploughshares and HOW(ever). Her chapbook Dear Red Airplane was published in 2011. Robin is board
vice-president for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). Plenary Session: Writing
Programs in a Global Context.
Andrea Routley was one of the early online editors of Coastal Spectator. She started her own online
magazine, Plenitude, as a directed studies project while at the University of Victoria. Andrea now works at
Caitlin Press. Event 5.
Sharanpal Ruprai’s poetry has been published in two anthologies, Exposed and Red Silk: An Anthology of
South Asian Canadian Women Poets. She has expanded her creative work into short film, producing
Narrow Field of Vision: Experimental Film Narrative, which was showcased at the Spinning Wheel Film
Festival. Her first collection of poetry is forthcoming from Frontenac House in fall 2014. Event 20.
Renée Sarojini Saklikar writes thecanadaproject, a life-long poem chronicle. Work from thecanadaproject
appears in literary journals, newspapers, and anthologies. children of air india, un/authorized exhibits and
interjections (Nightwood, 2013) is her first book of poetry. Event 12.
Mary Schendlinger (alter ego Eve Corbel), senior and comics editor of Geist magazine, has written two
books and illustrated, compiled, and/or edited many more. She teaches comics at UBC and courses in
the Master of Publishing Program at SFU. About 50 of her comics have been published in periodicals and
anthologies. Event 16.
Richard Scrimger writes for kids and adults and has won Canadian and U.S. awards. In his latest, Viminy
Crowe’s Comic Book, two kids end up inside a steam-punk comic, with onion rings, a robotic lammergeyer
and a brief apocalypse. Fortunately, confusion is Richard’s natural state. scrimger.ca. Event 15.
Aaron Shepard has written award-winning short fiction and has been published in a number of Canadian
literary journals, including the Fiddlehead and PRISM International. His personal essay “Edge of the
Herd” appears in the anthology Nobody’s Father: Life Without Kids. He is a graduate of the University of
Victoria MFA in Creative Writing program and has served on the Malahat Review fiction board. When is
a Man (Brindle and Glass, 2014) is his debut novel. Event 27.
Nikki Sheppy is a poet, editor, and journalist. Her chapbook, Grrrrlhood: a ludic suite (Kalamalka, 2014),
won the John Lent Poetry-Prose Award. Her book reviews have appeared in Alberta Views, Lemonhound,
and Uppercase Magazine. She serves on the board of filling Station magazine. Event 8.
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Nilofar Shidmehr has an MFA in creative writing from UBC. Her first book, published in 2008, was
nominated for a Dorothy Livesay prize, and her second poetry collection is forthcoming. Her poetry and
fiction has appeared in Canadian literary magazines. Nilofar is a PhD candidate in the Centre for CrossFaculty Inquiry in Education at UBC. Event 2.
Melanie Siebert’s first poetry collection, Deepwater Vee, won a Lieutenant Governor General’s medal for best
UVic Master’s thesis and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her poetry
has also been broadcast on CBC Radio and published in various literary journals, including The Malahat
Review, Event, and Prairie Fire. Event 27.
Natalie Simpson is the author of accrete or crumble (LINEbooks, 2006) and Thrum (Talonbooks, 2014).
Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013. She
practices pro bono law and curates filling Station magazine’s flywheel reading series. Event 8.
Michael V. Smith is a writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and occasional clown teaching creative writing
in the interdisciplinary program of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC’s Okanagan
campus in BC’s Interior. Event 26.
Jeff Steudel’s poetry has appeared in several literary magazines, including subTerrain, The Fiddlehead, CV2,
Prism international, and Canadian Literature. His work has also been published in The Montreal Prize
Global Poetry Anthology. He has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards, and in 2010 his poetry
won the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize. He lives in Vancouver. Event 13.
Jeremy Stewart is the author of (flood basement (Caitlin Press 2009), a collection of poems about growing up
in Prince George. His work has been shortlisted three times for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative
Poetry (2008, 2011, 2012). Stewart was 2007 winner of the Barry McKinnon Chapbook Award. Event 25.
Julija Šukys has a PhD from the University of Toronto and is the author of Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of
Ona Šimaitė (U Nebraska, 2012) and Silence is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (U Nebraska,
2007). Šukys is an Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of Missouri. Event 10.
Michelle Superle teaches children’s literature and creative writing courses at the University of the Fraser
Valley. She is the author of Black Dog, Dream Dog (Tradewind, 2010) and Contemporary, English-language
Indian Children’s Literature (Routledge, 2011). michellesuperle.com. Event 15.
Linda Svendsen is a television and fiction writer. She was the co-writer and co-producer of the awardwinning miniseries Human Cargo. Her most recent novel is Sussex Drive, a political satire (Random
House Canada, 2012). She is a professor in the UBC Creative Writing Program. Event 19.
Timothy Taylor is an award-winning novelist and journalist based in Vancouver. He is the author of four
acclaimed books of fiction: Stanley Park, Story House, The Blue Light Project, and the story collection Silent
Cruise. Taylor is an Assistant Professor at the UBC Creative Writing Program. Event 10.
Dennie Theodore is writing a book on building personal community. A professional writer, she contributes
to artistic and business projects across North America. She was listed as one of 100 Women Making a
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Difference around the World for her blog Similar Circles (The International Alliance of Women). Event 3.
Sharon Thesen is a poet, editor, and professor of Creative Writing at UBC Okanagan. Her poetry books
include most recently Oyama Pink Shale, The Good Bacteria, and A Pair of Scissors. She is the editor of
two editions of The New Long Poem Anthology, and, with Ralph Maud, co-editor of two editions of the
correspondence between Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff. She lives in Lake Country, BC. Event 14.
Daniel Scott Tysdal is the ReLit Award-winning author of two books of poetry and The Writing Moment: A
Practical Guide to Creating Poems (Oxford University Press 2013). He teaches creative writing and English
literature at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Events 9, 14, and 20.
Priscila Uppal is a York University Professor and author of eight collections of poetry (Ontological
Necessities, shortlisted Griffin Poetry Prize; Traumatology), two novels, and the memoir Projection:
Encounters with My Runaway Mother (shortlisted Hilary Weston Prize). Events 9 and 22.
Aritha van Herk is the author of five novels, four works of non-fiction, and two works (with photographer
George Webber) of place-writing, as well as hundreds of articles, reviews, and essays. Mavericks: An
Incorrigible History of Alberta frames the MAVERICKS exhibition at the Glenbow Museum. She teaches
Creative Writing and Canadian Literature at the University of Calgary. Events 1 and 23.
Lynne Van Luven has been teaching creative nonfiction and journalism in the Department of Writing at the
University of Victoria for the past 18 years. She is the editor and co-editor of several books of personal
essays, including In the Flesh (with Kathy Page), Nobody’s Mother, Nobody’s Father and Somebody’s Child, a
series of personal essays about the modern family. Event 5 and Plenary Session: Writing Programs in a
Global Context.
Katherine Wagner has an MFA in creative writing from UBC and an MA in sociology from the University
of Victoria. She writes fiction and screenplay. Her screenplay was a winner in the Praxis Screenplay
Competition 2013. Katherine has worked as a copywriter and copy editor, and has served on the editorial
board of PRISM International. Event 2.
Betsy Warland has published 11 books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and mixed-genre. In her best selling
book of essays, Breathing the Page – Reading the Act of Writing (2010), she presents concepts she has
developed about the forces encountered in the act of writing. Betsy is past director of The Writer’s Studio
at S.F.U. and has directed her own program, Vancouver Manuscript Intensive since 2006. Event 6.
Andy Weaver has published two books of poetry: Were the bees (NeWest, 2005; nominated for the Stephan
G. Stephansson Award) and Gangson (NeWest, 2011; nominated for the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book
Award). He is associate professor of English at York University, where he specializes in contemporary
experimental poetry and poetics. Event 7.
Jen Webb is a professor and director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University
of Canberra, in Australia, and immediate past president of the Association for Australasian Writing
Programs. Jen is an established authority on research and curriculum design for creative writing
programs, and especially for research training. Plenary Session: Writing Programs in a Global Context.
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Karin Weber is writing a fantasy novel for young adults. “The Invasion of the Snotty Badgers” won first prize
in the Canadian Writer’s Union Postcard Short Story Contest (2008). She was also awarded first prize by
the Andrew Macphail Writing Contest for “Mary Macpherson.” Event 3.
Andrew Westoll is an award-winning author, journalist, and instructor based in Toronto. He is the author of
The Riverbones and The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, which won the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary
Non-Fiction. Westoll teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Events 10, 20.
Darryl Whetter is a former professor in the University of Windsor Creative Writing program (where he
supervised numerous theses). From 2008-2010, he was the coordinator of the Creative Writing program at
Dalhousie University. His books include the novels The Push & the Pull and Keeping Things Whole as well
as Origins:Poems. Events 4 and 25.
Christine Wiesenthal is a biographer, editor, poet, and critic. Her books include Figuring Madness in
Nineteenth-Century Fiction; Instruments of Surrender, The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther, and The Collected
Works of Pat Lowther. She teaches in the Department of English at the University of Alberta. Event 6.
Cathleen With’s first book, skids (Arsenal Pulp, 2006), about street kids on the Downtown Eastside of
Vancouver, was short-listed for a ReLit Award. Her first novel, Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison, won
the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award. cathleenwith.ca. Event 15.
Clea Young’s stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines. She has twice been included in The
Journey Prize Stories, and in 2012 she was shortlisted for CBC’s Canada Writes. Most recently, her work
was featured in Coming Attractions 13 (Oberon Press). Clea received an MFA from the University of
British Columbia. She is currently Artistic Associate at the Vancouver Writers Festival. Event 28.
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