What Should We Call This?

UBC Creative Writing Students
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This is a podcast about stories, place, and identity from students at the UBC Creative Writing Department in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. It features multi-genre writing, music, and experiments with sound design. This season, look for crucial fashion advice from inside a best friend's closet, tips on evaluating queer spaces, a horror story in an AI therapist's office, reflections on a family grocery store, notes from an action-packed dojo, and more. If you're interested in creative writing -- this podcast is for you. Created on the unceded, ancestral territory of the Musqueam people.

  1. APR 16

    Paint With Me

    Join host Cory Cardinal as we explore the powerful connection betweenart and identity. Gather your materials and follow soothing, step-by-step guidance to create awork of art that is uniquely your own. Along the way, Cory shares personal anecdotes thatreveal how art invites us to expose the deepest parts of ourselves – and why vulnerability canbe both meaningful and liberating.

    10 min

  2. APR 11

    Behind the Counter

    "Behind the Counter" is Kevin So's exploration into the convenience store his family runs. Through interviews with his parents, he explores his family's history, their journey of immigration, and how their life experiences influence the foundation of his entire life. Personal anecdotes flesh out the rich living history of the life his parents have lived and the lessons they will carry forward into the future.

    16 min

  3. APR 11

    Fashion Killa

    Welcome to Fashion Killa! A podcast where fashion is fun, feasible & not-so-fast. In this episode, Harman will take you into the closet of a twenty-something outfit connoisseur: Valeska. Not only have Harman and Valeska known each other since they were kids, they have the outfits to prove it. Tune in to listen to part 1 of the series: friendship through the ages. To better support Indigenous youth in your community, check out - https://indigenousyouthroots.ca/about-indigenous-youth-roots . To listen to more of Fashion Killa, follow @fashion.killa.podcast on Instagram. Harman will be hard-launching her podcast in the coming weeks, so stay tuned! To buy some amazing lip glosses', follow @Nyahs_Nifty_Nook on Instagram.  All sounds are accredited to the original creators found on Epidemic Sound, & Welcome to Fashion Killa! A podcast where fashion is fun, feasible & not-so-fast. In this episode, Harman will take you into the closet of a twenty-something outfit connoisseur: Valeska. Not only have Harman and Valeska known each other since they were kids, they have the outfits to prove it. Tune in to listen to part 1 of the series: friendship through the ages. To better support Indigenous youth in your community, check out - https://indigenousyouthroots.ca/about-indigenous-youth-roots To listen to more of Fashion Killa, follow @fashion.killa.podcast on Instagram. Harman will be hard-launching her podcast in the coming weeks, so stay tuned! To buy some amazing lip glosses', follow @Nyahs_Nifty_Nook on Instagram.  All sounds are accredited to the original creators, found on Epidemic Sound & creative commons licensing via Freesound.org.

    13 min

  4. APR 5

    Where's My Pony Club?

    “Where’s My Pony Club?” follows Maya in a short exploration with her group of friends as they discuss and try to answer the question as to why alternative spaces seem to draw in a predominantly queer crowd. Listen to conversations revolving around space, belonging, and discovering self within local queer venues in Vancouver!

    16 min

  5. APR 5

    Therapy

    For John, therapy is a safe place, but sometimes safe places are disguised as something more sinister. This episode of What Should We Call This? is a narrative piece that explores the idea of identity, what it means to express yourself, and what happens when technology tries to do the same. The use of strong language is advised.

    11 min

  6. APR 2

    Something's Cooking

    "Something's Cooking!" is intended as the first episode of a podcast called Communi-tea. Each episode of Communi-tea would explore a different way that people are building community in a generation that is made to believe community is dead. Through narration, interviews, and a few audio skits, the episode "Something's Cooking!" explores the kitchen as a space for community building in Gen Z culture.

    10 min

  7. MAR 28

    Anecdote Hour

    Tune into Oi In Lin’s fiction piece, “Anecdote Hour,” a local radio talk show in the curious town of Dawnby! Featuring special community announcements, call-ins from the townsfolk, and super fun tunes, get ready to immerse yourself in a world that’s both familiar and strange.

    16 min

  8. MAR 28

    The Dojo

    Join Kar-Lai Yuen for a session at the dojo! Get ready to meet her friends the karate punks, find out who they are, what inspired them to step inside the dojo, and what keeps them coming back. Explore this unique place, its many rituals, and how identity and community come together.

    21 min
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This is a podcast about stories, place, and identity from students at the UBC Creative Writing Department in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. It features multi-genre writing, music, and experiments with sound design. This season, look for crucial fashion advice from inside a best friend's closet, tips on evaluating queer spaces, a horror story in an AI therapist's office, reflections on a family grocery store, notes from an action-packed dojo, and more. If you're interested in creative writing -- this podcast is for you. Created on the unceded, ancestral territory of the Musqueam people.

Information

  • Creator
    UBC Creative Writing Students
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © UBC Creative Writing Students
  • Show Website
    What Should We Call This?