What Should We Call This?

About What Should We Call This?

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.

Publisher

UBC Creative Writing Students

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Apr 2024

Latest episode

6 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

27 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Apr 2026

   Memoirs of a Lost Home

   A daughter gathers the fragments of Partition stories shaped by silence, survival, and the long shadows of Mountbatten, Radcliffe, and Gandhi. In “Memory Keeper” an Episode of Memoirs of A Lost Home, Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj sits with her father to uncover the untold truths of the day his family was forced to flee for their lives.

2. 

   6 Apr 2026

   Threshold

   In this episode, we pull up a chair and settle in with the remarkable Maya Bruck — designer, thinker, and someone who has thought more carefully about the meaning of home than almost anyone we know. We wander through unexpected territory together: the sudden vertigo of letting go of homeownership, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air plot twists in real life, the Japanese philosophy of Shinto, and what architecture actually does to the human spirit when it's done with intention. This is a conversation between two friends who love ideas — and you're invited in. Pour something warm, get comfortable, and join us as we explore what your home means to you.

3. 

   6 Apr 2026

   Phone calls and Motherhood

   “Phone Calls and Motherhood” explores life on a First Nations reserve, and how that experience influenced one mother’s decision to move to the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. In this episode, Jennifer B.S. Williams uncovers her mother’s story, and reflects on how it is shaped by cultural identity and the concept of home.

Podcast Authority Score: 22 / 100

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