writing
Create and Enter: Free summer opportunities in the arts
May 22, 2024By: Prerita Garg, SFU Student The Small File Media Festival Deadline: June 15, 2024 Entry fee: none Website: https://smallfile.ca/ Film enthusiasts and creators can showcase their talent in The Small File Media Festival. Hosted by The Cinematheque (a partner of SFU’s School of Contemporary Arts), this contest requires participants to submit a small file movie of any length in any genre. However, the submission can not exceed the length of 1.44mb/min. The festival hopes to showcase that small files are “the sustainable cinematic avant-garde” by raising awareness about the large carbon footprint video streaming makes. It’s so much easier, and…
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Sumaiya Tufail to deliver TEDxSFU talk on poetry as resistance
July 24, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer Editor’s note: The Peak would like to note that Josh Ralla, one of our staff members, is an executive director of TEDxSFU, but had no involvement in writing this article. Sumaiya Tufail began the Slam…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: March 11–April 2
March 10, 2023By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Vintage postcard writing workshop (free) Saturday, March 11, 3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. / Geist office at 111 West Hastings St., Vancouver Canadian quarterly publication, Geist and their writer-in-residence, Christine Lai, invites you to join…
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Contests and opportunities for writers
February 24, 2023By: Payal R., SFU Student CBC 2023 Literary Prize: Non-fiction Website: cbcliteraryprizes.submittable.com/submit Submissions close Feb 28, 2023 Fee: $25 The CBC 2023 Literary Prize’s non-fiction competition is open to all Canadian citizens and permanent residents to submit non-fiction works in…
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Creative Corner: Poetry and its therapeutic properties
February 17, 2023By: Jeeya Parasbhai Khavadia, SFU Student Poems, stories, and other types of creative writing have piqued my interest since I was a child. I used to tear poems from magazines and place them inside my school textbooks to lift myself…
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Isabella Wang: poetry is like being at home
July 19, 2021By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Isabella Wang, a third-year SFU student, has made impressive strides in the literary community as the author of two poetry collections: a chapbook titled On Forgetting a Language, published in 2019, and Pebble Swing, her…
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It’s best to finish WQB courses as early as possible
July 26, 2020By: Michelle Young, Staff Writer Writing, breadth, and quantitative (WQB) requirements are sometimes pushed to the end of a student’s degree due to scheduling conflicts and looming dread. These courses can be intimidating because they force students to explore outside their…
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LiterASIAN offers an in-depth glimpse into the Asian-Canadian writing community
October 26, 2019By: Kitty Cheung, Peak Associate Now in its seventh year, LiterASIAN is an annual Asian-Canadian writers’ festival. Organized by the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW), this year’s festival occurred on September 27 and 28 in Vancouver’s Chinatown with the theme…
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Vancouver Writers Fest dives into narratives about sex work, mental illness, belonging, and economic disparity
October 12, 2019By: Amneet Mann, Peak Associate For the past 30 years, the Vancouver Writers Fest has been organizing award-winning storytellers, both local and international, to lead discussions on the world around us and the stories within us. This year, the festival…
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The power of a poem
October 25, 2017the pain taught me how to write and the writing taught me how to heal –Harman Kaur When asked why she is constantly compelled to put pen to paper, Instagram poetess and fourth-year SFU student Harman Kaur came up…
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