The Kuldip Gill writing fellowship
Each year the English department welcomes an accomplished Canadian writer to inspire students, mentor aspiring writers, and provide practical advice on publishing, while receiving dedicated time to work on their own creative projects.
During the winter semester (January to April), the Writer in Residence works with faculty and students, visiting creative writing classes, consulting one-on-one with students, and enriching the local literary scene by participating in both UFV and community events.
Apply to UFV's Writer in Residence Position
Leanne Dunic (2025) 
Leanne Dunic transgresses genres and form to produce projects such as To Love the Coming End (Book*hug, 2017), The Gift (Book*hug 2019) and her lyric memoir with music, One and Half of You (Talonbooks, 2021). Her new novel-in-verse-and-photographs, Wet, was published in Spring 2024, also with Talonbooks.
Leanne is the fiction mentor at Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio, and the fiction editor at Tahoma Literary Review. She is the leader of the band The Deep Cove, and lives on the unceded and occupied traditional territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh people.
Julia Dovey hails from Aldergrove, BC. Her two novels (Lipstick Tattoo and Potatoes and Pink Vodka) are published by BWL Publishing, and a third is slated for release in spring 2024. Her areas of interest include both fiction and drama. She has extensive experience as a workshop leader and enjoys helping emerging writers put pen to page. In addition, she works as a video editor, novel editor, and copywriter, and spends her free time making dramatic videos about coffee to post online. 
Rob Taylor is the author of four poetry collections: 
Sheri-D Wilson, aka Mama of Dada, the award-winning author of 13 books, 4 short films, and 4 albums which combine music and poetry. An international artist known for her electric performance-style, Sheri-D has performed and taught workshops at festivals around the world.
Lindsay Wong is the author of the bestselling, award-winning memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family. She has a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University, and she is now based in Vancouver, Canada, My Summer of Love and Misfortune is her first YA novel.
Robert J. Wiersema is the bestselling author of Before I Wake, Bedtime Story, and four other books. One of Canada's foremost writers on books, his reviews appear regularly in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and other magazines, and his "Beyond the Bestseller" column is featured biweekly on CBC Radio. Born and raised in the Fraser Valley, Wiersema now lives in Victoria, BC. He is a professor of Creative Writing at Vancouver Island University, and teaches at Camosun College. 
Billeh Nickerson is the author of five books including the 2014 City of Vancouver Book Award nominated Artificial Cherry. He is also a former editor of PRISM international and Event—two of Canada’s most respected literary journals—and a previous writer-in-residence at both Queen’s University and at the Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon. He’s currently co-editing Valley: A Poetry Anthology with Surrey Poet Laureate Renee Sarojini Saklikar. He grew up in Langley, and now resides in East Vancouver.
Jordan is a Nisga’a writer from BC. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD at Simon Fraser University where his research concentrates on the intersection between Digital Humanities and Indigenous Literary Studies.
A popular radio personality, Jen was the writing columnist for CBC Radio One’s On the Coast and All Points West for three years. She appears regularly as a columnist on The Next Chapter and Definitely Not the Opera, and is a frequent co-host of the Studio One Book Club. Jen is a member of the writing group SPiN and is represented by the Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency. She currently teaches fiction at The Writers’ Studio Online at Simon Fraser University.
For more than a decade Emily has facilitated creative writing workshops that focused on learning tools for conflict-resolution and processing trauma. She’s worked with people reintegrating from prison, youth in shelters, and people with severe mental health issues. Currently, she’s an assistant professor in the Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia.
Daniela Elza is the author of three books of poetry: milk tooth bane bone, the weight of dew, and the book of it. She is the recipient of Pandora's Collective Citizenship Award (2010). She has served as a regional editor for the Pacific Poetry Project: An Anthology of three cities (Portland, Seattle & Vancouver).
Rex Weyler is a writer and ecologist. He has extensive experience working alongside many of the world's renowned authors, ecologists, and public intellectuals. Many of you will recognize him as co-founder of Greenpeace International. Rex's stories and photographs helped make Greenpeace a household name around the world.
A frequent lecturer and instructor of creative writing, she has taught at UBC, UBCO, The Summer Literary Seminars, the Sage Hill Writing Experience and other schools, and is now permanent faculty in the department of Language, Literature and Performing Arts at Douglas College.
Born in India, Jaspreet Singh moved to Canada in 1990. He is a novelist, essayist, short story writer and a former research scientist. He received his doctorate in chemical engineering in 1998 from McGill University, Montreal, and two years later decided to focus full time on writing.
Richard Van Camp is a proud member of the Dogrib (Tlicho) Nation from Fort Smith, NWT, Canada from Fort Smith, NWT. He is a graduate of the En'owkin International School of Writing, the University of Victoria's Creative Writing BFA Program, and the Master's Degree in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
Kuldip Gill was born in Punjab, India in 1943. As a child, she immigrated to Canada and grew up in the Fraser Valley. After working in 