Creative writing in Vancouver's downtown eastside
June 5, 2015 by Elee
Join us for a fun evening of socializing and celebration. The evening will include a SHORT reading (15mins), catered free snacks, book sales and some silliness. Details will be posted asap. This book of poems, stories, songs and memoir by members of the Downtown Eastside community of Vancouver represents a year of thinking about music… Continue reading Voice to Voice Launches!
February 5, 2015 by Elee
Hello everyone! We’re set to begin the first class of our eighth year on February 12, 2015. We’ll be completing our writing for the Voice to Voice Project and collaborating with the composers and performers who have set 12 of our poems as songs. First things first: our visit with Katherine Swarthile, the daughter of Anahareo, will take… Continue reading Reunion
September 9, 2014 by Elee
We’re thrilled to announce our Indiegogo campaign was funded 116.67% and we are on our way to creating our 7th book, Voice to Voice! We managed to surpass our $6000 goal and reach $7000 (which means we receive $6720 after Indiegogo subtracts charges.) We had 98 contributions and our campaign had 2206 visitors from around the… Continue reading On September 18 We Begin Voice to Voice!
July 31, 2014 by Elee
Thursdays Writing Collective is a group of more than 150 writers who get together once a week – on Thursdays – at Vancouver’s Carnegie Centre to write. We’re passionate about connecting with audiences within and beyond the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. We’ve published six anthologies of creative writing in all genres that are for sale in… Continue reading Indiegogo fund for our 7th book!
November 23, 2012 by Elee
We opened our UBC Liu Institute exhibit with a social writing event that was so well-received they invited us back! On November 29 Thursdays Writing Collective and DTES residents will travel to UBC to the Liu Institute for Global Issues. It’s a lunchtime writing session open to DTES writers, students, professors, and the public. Join… Continue reading Fieldtrip! No class at Carnegie Nov 29
October 27, 2012 by Elee
Building: An Evening of Social Writing with Thursdays Writing Collective Thursday, Nov 1, 2012, 7-9pm Dunlevy Snackbar, 433 Dunlevy St. (at Hastings) During this two-hour, free session open to DTES residents and others, we will write short pieces about housing and architectural space. Thursdays Writing Collective’s Elee Kraljii Gardiner will lead an informal and… Continue reading Write with Thursdays Writing Collective
March 13, 2012 by Elee
Thursdays Editing Collective Workshop Saturday, March 17 from 2:30 to 4:30 pm Carnegie Centre, Third Floor We shall start with a writing prompt: Write about walking through a bank as a bank robber. Then we will write again: walking through the same bank as a lottery winner depositing their winnings. We shall have a… Continue reading Thursdays Editing Collective Workshop
February 22, 2012 by Elee
Here is some updated information on our plan for The Stanza Project. Because it is a collaboration with Mark Proosten, an architect in the Netherlands, Mark and I started a facebook page to be able to stay in touch easily with anyone interested in what Thursdays Writing Collective and MLP Proosten Architects are doing. On… Continue reading News on The Stanza Project
October 13, 2011 by Elee
We won’t have our usual class on Thursday October 20 because many of us will be at the V125 Poetry Conference. V125 is a three-day conference all about poetry with more than 100 poets from the US and Canada in attendance participating on panels, discussions and readings. The organizers of this conference, which celebrates Vancouver’s… Continue reading No Class October 20, 2011 for V125 Poetry Conference
September 28, 2011 by Elee
Our editing sessions are beginning after each class on Thursdays. Joan Flood and Kevin Spenst are happy to meet with writers beginning at 4pm in one on one 20 minute sessions to go over texts produced in class. Joan and Kevin are part of Thursdays Editing Collective and also lead workshops that allow writers… Continue reading Learn about editing with Thursdays Editing Collective