UVic Writing

Explore the latest artistic collaborations between @ocean_networks & @uvic Fine Arts when 2 ONC AIRs — @UVicMusic Master's candidate Megan Harton & @UVicWriting Neil Griffin — discuss their #ArtSci projects. ow.ly/BlqF50TgJle #uvicarts #yyjarts #uvicevents

“My co-workers and I would text each other in the mornings like, ‘Are we even allowed to be working? Should we even open? Because this isn’t safe for any of us. It’s not safe for the customers.’” - student Kennedy Halwa, as told to @UVicWriting's Melody Powers

“Nothing was left. Just rubble. There were glass puddles next to the burnt vehicle shells. Our house was gone. Even the foundation didn’t look intact.” - artist Genevieve Clarke, Hay River/ K’átł’odeeche/Kakisa fire, 2023, as told to @UVicWriting’s Jon Miller and @seanmholman

Reserve your tix now for the world premiere of @NeworldTheatre & Climate Disaster Project verbatim theatre play "Eyes of the Beast: Climate Disaster Stories", Sept 16-21 @UVicPhoenix. ow.ly/PgZ350SGpfy #uvicarts #yyjtheatre #uvic #crdarts @uvicwriting @cdp_community

“I feel like poetry has to do with the human voice in all of us." The latest from @uvicwriting grad Cara-Lyn Morgan weaves both the Métis & Trinidadian strands of her life into a powerful new collection @invisibooks. ow.ly/fF1g50SxtXP #uvicalumni #canlit #canadianpoetry

Congrats to @UVicWriting's Climate Disaster Project @cdp_community on winning a Special Recognition Citation at the National Newspaper Awards! Inspiring to see work by our students & partners nationally recognized! ow.ly/voop50Rrmgs #uvic #uvicarts #climatecrisis

Together, we are telling the human story of climate change so we confront its inequities and injustices. The @nna_ccj's citation is a powerful recognition that this story can be told in collaboration with disaster-affected communities.

The citation, which honours experimental journalism that transcends “categories, newsrooms and the industry,” belongs to the educators, journalists, students, and disaster-affected community members who came together to create the Climate Disaster Project.

We are incredibly grateful to the @nna_ccj for awarding the Climate Disaster Project its 2023 Special Recognition Citation for our trauma-informed work covering the frontlines of #climatechange. climatedisasterproject.com

Honoured the @caj selected an investigation by @uvicwriting’s @achwelos, @kristendejager, and Paul Voll into the risk toxic forest fire smoke poses to tree planters as a finalist for this year’s labour reporting award. #climatechange #canlab thetyee.ca/News/2023/09/1…

A warmer world is a more traumatic world. That’s why @uvicwriting’s Sean Holman and @kingsjournalism’s Lisa Taylor worked with students at @ukings last semester to teach them how to cover climate change with a trauma-informed lens. #climatechange ukings.ca/news/telling-t…

Congratulations to all!

The Martlet is hiring! If you're interested in a full-time editorial position at an award-winning student newspaper, the deadline to apply is March 12. martlet.ca/martlet.ca/upl…

Join us today at 1pm for Orion guest @zenfandango, acclaimed screenwriter, playwright, TV producer/showrunner & UVic alum, who will share insights on his professional screen career with “How to Kick an Elephant: A Border Town Survival Guide”. events.uvic.ca/finearts/event…

🧵 If you know me well enough, you'll know I've been working on a book for a long time. It's a book about a very long bike ride, but really, it's about pride, shame, and the things we carry with us. And it's coming out NEXT YEAR. Thanks to @PottersPress for believing in it. 1/3

@PottersPress @UVicWriting This book wouldn’t be possible without about 100+ people, including my publisher, @LesleyChoyce; my MFA supervisor, @deborahcampbell; my family and friends; the many experts who generously shared their time/knowledge; and the people I met on that fateful bike ride across Canada.

In October I was honoured to give the @UVicWriting Southam Lecture on better ways to manage droughts, floods, and forest fires: ow.ly/a3VM50PVPAx I also explored a concrete-entombed stretch of Victoria's Bowker Creek, a fate of many urban creeks globally.

UVic’s Writing Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in fiction to commence July 1, 2024. This is a limited hire open to Black fiction writers. Deadline January 19th, 2024 shorturl.at/coIR0

Call for Submissions: Geist is open for short non-fiction (800-1500 words), longer non-fiction (up to 5000 words), and comics submissions. Send us your best work by January 8, 2024. Please read our Submission Guidelines for more details: geist.com/submit