Creating a Little Book of Dreams: writing workshop

Dr. Terry Whitebeach is an esteemed Australian young adult novelist, biographer and historian, poet, creative writing mentor, community developer, and social activist from Tasmania. She will be the UPEI Writer in Residence this fall semester. Her residency is sponsored by the UPEI Dean of Arts, the Institute of Island Studies, and UPEI’s English Department.

Dr. Whitebeach will lead a creative writing workshop on Saturday, October 5, from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm, at UPEI. 

Dr. Terry Whitebeach public reading

Dr. Terry Whitebeach is an esteemed Australian young adult novelist, biographer and historian, poet, creative writing mentor, community developer, and social activist from Tasmania. She will be the UPEI Writer in Residence this fall semester. Her residency is sponsored by the UPEI Dean of Arts, the Institute of Island Studies, and UPEI’s English Department.

Dr. Whitebeach will give a free public reading in The Carriage House at Beaconsfield Historic House in Charlottetown on Thursday, September 26, at 7:00 pm.

UPEI Student Union features all-woman executive for first time in fifty-year history

The UPEI Student Union (UPEISU) is celebrating its own version of the PEI Famous Five.* This year’s executive features President Emma Drake, Vice-President Academic and External Sweta Daboo, Vice-President Student Life Tessa Rogers, and Vice-President Finance and Administration Keesha Ryan, marking the first time in 50 years of UPEISU history that all four executive positions are held by women.

Trauma and Resilience Keynote with Dr. Amanda Brazil

Join the UPEI Student Union and the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SV-PRO) in welcoming Dr. Amanda Brazil on Tuesday, September 10 at 12 noon in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre, to open our "Just Check in For Consent" week (September 10 to 12) with her keynote speech about trauma and resilience. Don't miss this opportunity to de-stigmatize trauma and also put your name in for a draw to win a Fitbit watch!! 

It's Consent Week - Just Check In!

Tuesday, September 10, 2019 is the first day of "Just Check In" for Consent, a collaboration between the UPEI Student Union and the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SV-PRO).  

10:00 am-1:00 pm: Start your day with a Kick-Off Fair in the Concourse of the W.A. Murphy Student Centre with tables from on-campus and off-campus resources.