Creative writing in Vancouver's downtown eastside
August 24, 2016 by Elee
Dear Thursdays Writing Collective writers, When I started writing at Carnegie Community Centre in February 2008 I didn’t expect to become so deeply knit into the literary community of the Downtown Eastside. I thought I was co-facilitating a four-week course! Now just shy of nine years later, we have spent thousands of hours of writing… Continue reading Change and Growth
September 25, 2015 by Elee
Tonight, Sep 25, 2015, Thursdays Writing Collective founder Elee Kraljii Gardiner receives an award from Pandora’s Collective and WORD Festival for mentoring! The BC Writer Mentor Award recognizes efforts to foster the writing of others (see more info below). The event is free and everyone is welcome. Big congratulations to the other awardees – Daphne… Continue reading Awards
June 6, 2013 by Elee
Join us for a celebration and selected readings from our perfect-bound, 108 page beauty! Wed, June 19, 2013, doors at 8pm Brickhouse Bar, 730 Main St, Vancouver Accessible, free, all welcome The Stanza Project is our 6th book of creative writing by Downtown Eastside writers and is a collaboration with Dutch architect MLP Proosten.… Continue reading The Stanza Project launches!
May 11, 2012 by Elee
V6A is launching in Montreal on Tuesday, June 12, 2012! The time changed to 7:30-9;30pm. We’d like to invite you and your community writing groups to attend and contribute to a discussion after the reading. Editors John Asfour, who lives in Montreal, and Elee Kraljii Gardiner, from Vancouver, will be reading excerpts from V6A:… Continue reading V6A in Montreal
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
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
January 25, 2011 by Elee
Join us for the eighth Thursdays Writing Collective course beginning February 3, 2011. We meet Thursdays from 2-4pm in the Carnegie Centre until June 9. The first two classes will have to do with Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rabbit. We have been invited to post our written work on the Vancouver… Continue reading Spring 2011 Course Begins February 3
December 6, 2010 by Elee
Our last class of 2010 is this week, December 9. We start again on February 3, 2011. This has been a fruitful, exciting course with many new members of the Collective. Thank you to the guest authors who visited us, beginning with poet Fiona Lam in October. Fiona took us through revision stages of her… Continue reading Untitled
July 20, 2010 by Elee
Elee Kraljii Gardiner and guest author Michael Turner are hosting an evening of social writing with members of Thursdays Writing Collective as part of the Heart of the City Festival on November 4th, 2010. All writers and non-writers, jokers, thinkers and passersby are welcome. Write to the City: Adventures in Social Writing Thursday,… Continue reading Thursdays Writing Collective and the Heart of the City Festival
June 8, 2009 by Elee
We are launching the new chapbook on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 8pm at the Brickhouse Bar at 730 Main Street (near union in Chinatown). Please join us to hear the contributors read their work. This edition is special: it includes the work of more than 20 writers who have attended the Thursdays class and was… Continue reading Come to the Launch of “Thursdays 2: Writings from the Carnegie Centre”