Nancy Lee (she/her)

Theres not a thing I’ve read about generative AI that’s not the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

Come welcome Writer-In-Residence Joshua Whitehead at our reception in the Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall at the First Nations Longhouse, where he’ll be in conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt.

🗓 Monday, October 20
⏰ 1:00 to 2:30 pm
📍 First Nations Longhouse

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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

I’m so fucking tired of Nazis.

We’re thrilled to announce that our 2025 – 2026 Poet-in-Residence will be Cassidy McFadzean! From November 2025 to July 2026, Cassidy will be mentoring poets and creating new work for a future issue of Arc Poetry. Do you want to workshop your own poetry with Cassidy? Details here: buff.ly/B072bOs

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Tickets Available Now: Kathryn Mockler 2-for-1 Webinar Bundle

I'm doing 2 workshop webinars for 1 price for the Writers Guild of Alberta on Writing Very Short Narratives and Book Publicity (that you can live with)

Open to all! Recording available after.

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Question:

If a POTUS was actually a Russian asset with the specific intent of destroying the military power, market strength, social unity, economic hegemony & global influence of the United States from within,

what would that person do DIFFERENTLY than what that asshole is doing right now?

Please join us for a reading and celebration of Keith Maillard as he retires from the School of Creative Writing. 🎉 Everyone is invited to attend this online event (Zoom).

🗓️ Thursday, October 16
⏰ 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

We’re returning to @writersfest.bc.ca with our popular Night Class event! Night Class is an interactive workshop offering writing tips and prompts across various genres, from instructors at UBC’s renowned School of Creative Writing. 🎟️ Tickets at writersfest.bc.ca

This is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴
𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨
𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵
𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢.

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵
𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴
𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

Amphibious Poetics: An Interview with Leanne Dunic Poets Leanne Dunic and Rob Taylor talk about genre-crossing art, mask wearing, and desire and restraint.

Congratulations to Leanne Dunic on winning the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (@bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social) for her book "Wet."

You can read my interview with Leanne about the book over at @readlocalbc.bsky.social:

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Tuesday poem #650 : Marita Dachsel : Seaside Juniper The man tells me what I believe to be everything he knows about this very special tree. And in the moment I, too, am in love with it...

Tuesday poem #650 : Marita Dachsel : Seaside Juniper
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Anything else aside, I find it absurd for folks on the left and in the center to go hard into whitewashing his extremism.

Trans people didn’t ask to get pulled into any of this | Xtra Magazine Charlie Kirk’s murder is the latest event in which trans people have suddenly, inexplicably, become main characters

"Any connection they can draw between us and this act of violence will be used to strip more of our rights, or threaten us more in our homes, our schools and our communities," writes @melwoods.me, on how trans people have been roped into the narrative around Charlie Kirk's death

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for emerging BIPOC writers in Canada: an opportunity to work with Lindsay Wong Arsenal Pulp Press is a book publisher in Vancouver, Canada with over 300 titles currently in print, which include literary fiction and nonfiction; cultural and gender studies; LGBT and multicultural ...

Are you BIPOC and an emerging author in Canada? Arsenal Pulp Press is taking submissions for a mentorship with Lindsay Wong. arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/CA...

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Timeline cleanse! May you live in a world where your top concern is: will this hat I knitted fit my hedgehog?

We’re proud to share a collection of comics from Creative Writing students in our 2025 comics classes. 📓

🎉 Read the comics here: creativewriting.ubc.ca/news/student...

He’s always been a hack. And hacks are gonna hack. What a loser.

Broadcast News (1987): If I Were the Devil, You’d Be the Only One I Would Tell 'Broadcast News' presents adulthood as an exercise in weathering the relentless sensation of being not-quite-enough and not-quite-right.

"I don’t think I’ve lived a single day of adult life in which BROADCAST NEWS did not cross my mind—it’s a film so highly specific that it feels purpose-built for imprinting itself on your consciousness."

I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences

AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.

The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.

Jia nails it

Obviously the answer to this question is no, but more importantly, I will not take a question like this seriously until it is demonstrated to me that the makers of LLM technology, and their boosters in business and the media, have even the slightest concern for the suffering of actual human beings.