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Selected by our tremendous judge, Alix Ohlin, ROOM’s 2022 Short Forms contest winners are: 🏆 1st Prize: Isra Siddiqui 🏆 2nd Prize: Moni Brar 🏆 3rd Place: Dawn Miller Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all who submitted! roommagazine.com/short-forms-co…

This week: Rachel Barenbaum about the importance of the "clock," Alix Ohlin on thinking of your opening as a legend to the map of your novel's world, & Maya Shanbhag Lang on why prologues are making a comeback. 7amnovelist.substack.com/p/whats-next-p… @grubwriters #7amnovelist #writingtips #writingcommunity

Today! @alixohlin on playing w chronology, managing a reminiscent narrator & her advice: “Think of your novel as a map of the world & of your 1st pages as the legend for navigating it.” 7amnovelist.substack.com/p/passages-ali… @grubwriters #7amnovelist #writingtips #writingcommunity #podcast

I'll be at the Vancouver event Sept 15 👇 Please help spread the word. More details here: forourkids.ca/vanclimatestri…

There is no place for hate and disinformation at UBC. As a Faculty, we stand with our 2SLGBTQIA+ students, faculty, staff and the broader community. Read the full statement: ow.ly/m0eQ50PO2km

Wrote about Taylor Swift, Edith Wharton, double perspective, and how social media is a form of creative nonfiction Literary Hub lithub.com/beth-nguyen-on…

MFA info session hosted by aaww-nyc.bsky.social! Free and online Oct. 4 at 7 pm ET, with @sindya Jess the Writer Don Lee, and me aaww.org/curation/virtu…

Looking forward to speaking with brilliant Lauren Groff this Friday at VWF. Come join us

We’re hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Black Speculative Writing as part of a university-wide Black Faculty Cohort Hiring Initiative to recruit up to 23 Black scholars over the next 4 years. Apply by December 11, 2023. Learn more: creativewriting.ubc.ca/about/job-oppo…

¿Queréis hacer un buen regalo estas navidades? Compra en tu librería de barrio favorita uno de nuestros 18 libros favoritos de 2023.

Join us on March 21 at 7 pm PT on Zoom for a special conversation with authors Corinna Chong and Alix Ohlin. Visit the link below for event details, and to register for the Zoom link: creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event/c…

“Perhaps some part of her even believed that they had now experienced their quota of accidents and were therefore inoculated against misfortune.” —from “Rogue Wave,” by @alixohlin, from our Spring 2024 issue: bit.ly/tsrspring24 Art by Jesús Castillo Díaz

I wouldn't be a writer without her. Labour Day Dinner. The Albanian Virgin. Friend of My Youth. She showed me what was possible. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Dear Mary Robison fans, I’ve been trying to make this happen for eons. Out in the Summer 2024 issue of the The Paris Review: my Art of Fiction interview with the one and only. You are welcome. theparisreview.org/interviews/831…

1/The opinion says that "Whenever the President and Vice President discuss their official responsibilities, they engage in official conduct." This cannot be correct.

Tickets for Booker Prize finalists at #VWF2024 are almost gone! Rachel Kushner joins us with Creation Lake on Oct 22, in conversation with Alix Ohlin. Presented with Simon & Schuster CA & The Polygon Gallery. writersfest.bc.ca/festival-event…

This workshop for new and established authors on Oct 23 offers writing exercises from five UBC School of Creative Writing professors: Whitney French, Frances Koncan, Mandy Len Catron, jen moss & Alix Ohlin, with host cecily nicholson. writersfest.bc.ca/festival-event…

a source of information on the ground in western North Carolina + an evolving list of trusted organizations where you can contribute to help especially people in underserved communities devastated by catastrophic Helene flooding Blue Ridge Public Radio bpr.org/bpr-news/2024-…

see y’all in LA (*joyfully*)…

We're hiring for a staff position. The Senior Education Manager helps develop online & blended courses, non-credit educational programs, & related projects & initiatives in teaching & learning. Deadline NOVEMBER 1. Details: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcstaff…