Learn How to Make Your Own Chapbook
September 12, 2011 by Elee
As part of the Word on the Street Festival Mercedes Eng is holding a free workshop for DTES writers who have a collection of poetry or prose they would like to publish in a small book format. Info is below and sign up is at Vancouver’s Carnegie Community Centre in the office. Space is limited!… Continue reading Learn How to Make Your Own Chapbook
Welcome Back
August 24, 2011 by Elee
We want to know what sort of writing you did, if any, over the summer. We’ll be talking about new work and the challenge of finding writing time when we begin meeting again on Thursday, September 15, 2011, 2-4pm at Carnegie Centre on Hastings and Main Streets, Vancouver. Some Thursdays Writing Collective members continued… Continue reading Welcome Back
UBC Law Newsletter lauds the Writers Caravan
July 25, 2011 by Elee
The UBC Faculty of Law newsletter has a write-up of our Writers Caravan experience with the UBC Law students. Thanks to all who participated in uniting the writing communities. Although we had planned the Writers Caravan to be a one-off, plans are brewing to collaborate with UBC law again in the 2011/2012 course year.
Writers Caravan Celebration Reading
June 24, 2011 by Elee
Fifteen readers from the four participating groups read on the beautiful summer solstice night June 21, 2011. The pieces they read are reflections of the generative space we created during our writing encounters at Carnegie throughout the spring. You will have a chance to read some of them, as well as others, in the publication… Continue reading Writers Caravan Celebration Reading
Writers Caravan Swings into Roundhouse Community Centre
June 10, 2011 by Elee
Our pilot project is celebrating a culmination on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 7pm at Vancouver’s Roundhouse Community Centre. Four writing groups – UBC Law students, 2011 Writer’s Studio members, Write Club Literary Mamas and Thursdays Writing Collective are uniting for the first time. We have written together one-on-one and read on double… Continue reading Writers Caravan Swings into Roundhouse Community Centre
Write Club hosts the Writers Caravan
May 17, 2011 by Elee
On Monday night May 16, 2011 members of Thursdays Writing Collective crossed town for a reading at Westside Family place at 11th and McDonald hosted by Write Club, a group of literary mothers formed off their experience with the Momoir project. The childcare centre was a warm setting for our joint reading, which was thoughtfully… Continue reading Write Club hosts the Writers Caravan
DTES Writers’ Jamboree is this Friday
April 27, 2011 by Elee
Sign up at Carnegie for one-on-one editing sessions with the guest authors while spaces are available!
Henry Doyle’s “Rooming House Blues”
April 26, 2011 by Elee
Thursdays Writing Collective member Henry Doyle has been busy lately. Not only are his pieces getting published almost as fast as he can write them, but he is the subject of a 7 minute documentary in support of Megaphone magazine, a vital resource for Vancouver’s DTES writers and the vendors who hand sell the publication.… Continue reading Henry Doyle’s “Rooming House Blues”
The Writer’s Studio hosts The Writers Caravan
April 26, 2011 by Elee
Congratulations to the Writers Caravan participants who read at Take 5 Café on Friday, April 15, 2010. They were astounding. Thanks to Lai Fung, Henry and Irit from Thursdays Writing Collective and to Rua, Dhana, Meg and Yaana from SFU’s Writer’s Studio for sharing their interesting pieces with the audience. They all made an impact… Continue reading The Writer’s Studio hosts The Writers Caravan
Second stop on the Writers Caravan, April 15, 2011
April 13, 2011 by Elee
Friday, April 15, 2011 7pm Take 5 Café (on Granville and Hastings) The Writers Caravan is holding its second of three readings, this one a collaboration between SFU’s Writer’s Studio and Thursdays Writing Collective. Join us for a glimpse of the writing resulting from a creative encounter between the two groups. Click below to download… Continue reading Second stop on the Writers Caravan, April 15, 2011
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