Creative writing in Vancouver's downtown eastside
November 21, 2014 by Elee
Many thanks to the Heart of the City Festival for inviting us to pay tribute to DTES Bud Osborn and the impact he has had on writing the neighbourhood. Here are a few photos from our afternoon at the Interurban Gallery. Thank you, Tom Quirk, for shooting these.
November 14, 2014 by Elee
It has been difficult to know what to post here regarding the news of our friend, mentor and editor’s passing. Dr John Mikhail Asfour died on November 2, 2014 in Montreal General Hospital. John came to Vancouver in 2008 as the inaugural writer in residence at Joy Kogawa House. At a reading from our first… Continue reading Some thoughts on John Asfour
October 25, 2014 by Elee
We’d like to invite you to an event Thursdays Writing Collective is doing as part of the Heart of the City Festival. It’s a reading of work by and related to the Downtown Eastside’s Bud Osborn, a poet and activist who died this May. Here is a memory of Bud by Am Johal. Jean Swanson… Continue reading Heart of the City Festival