As part of Say Anything/Something, a community-based performance and workshop series, Inspired Word Café is thrilled to present a prose workshop led by writer Mackenzie Ground! This workshop invites writers at all stages and experience levels to engage in a learning and sharing environment. No registration necessary—spots are first-come, first-served. This event is free to […]
Creative Writing Lecturer Joanna Cockerline launches new book, Still.
This event has been postponed to the fall Join us for the final event of the Inspired Word Café season, as well as the final event Say Anything/Something. Say Anything/Something is a community-based performance and workshop series connecting professional, emerging and amateur artists, both visiting and local, with the wider Okanagan community through writing and […]
Weekend of free readings and workshops
Weekend of free readings and workshops
As part of Say Anything/Something, a community-based performance and workshop series, Inspired Word Café is thrilled to present a poetry workshop lead by local author and professor Jake Kennedy! This workshop invites writers at all stages and experience levels to engage in a learning and sharing environment. No registration necessary—spots are first come, first served! […]
The Okanagan Short Story Contest awards the best new short stories by writers in the Southern Interior of British Columbia: 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 and NeWest Press, […]
The winners of the 2024 Okanagan Short Story Contest will be announced publicly at our March 27 event at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art.
Join the IWC collective for a night of editing and peer review.
Join the IWC collective for a night of editing and peer review.
Join the IWC collective for a night of editing and peer review.
Join visual artist and educator Michelle Sound at The Alternator for a hands on afternoon of interactive beadwork and tufting.
The winners of the 2023 Okanagan Short Story Contest have been selected by our guest judge, Corinna Chong, and will be announced publicly at our April 6th event at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art.
Join the Visiting Artist Series for Austin Clay Willis’s Moving Through Debris, which opens this winter at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art.
Join us Oct 20th at the Alternator Gallery to celebrate the launch of books new books by MFA students.
Join the book launch of MFA students, Brianna Ferguson and Umar Turaki, including readings from both authors and a Q&A session.
Creative writing professor Matt Rader launches his new book, Ghosthawk
Inspired by the work of Hana Hamaguchi, our next theme involves an experimental take on portraiture. Come draw with us!
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We respectfully acknowledge the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples, in whose traditional, ancestral, unceded territory UBC Okanagan is situated.
