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.
September 29, 2014 by Elee
Thanks to SFU’s Writing and Publishing Program, Thursdays Writing Collective had a table of its own at the smorgasbord that is the Word Festival. Held outdoors at the Vancouver Public Library Main Branch, Word is a fair of readings, publishing and magazine tables that usually suffers from Vancouver’s damp weather. Not this year. We had… Continue reading Word Vancouver 2014
July 23, 2013 by Elee
We launched our 6th book, The Stanza Project on June 29, 2013 at the Brickhouse. Our collaborator, architect Mark Proosten, flew in from his home in The Netherlands to celebrate with the people he has been working with throughout the year. It was a warm reunion and very exciting for us all. Thanks to all… Continue reading The Stanza Project Launch
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!
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
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
November 5, 2010 by Elee
During the cast and crew screening of the Memory Festival’s “Rewind: Memory on Tape” (click above for details) we received good news for three Thursdays writers: their one-sentence memories of Vancouver have been chosen as winners in Geist’s competition. Joan Morelli, Anne Hopkinson and Beth Buchanan wrote lovely memories that will be printed and… Continue reading Thursdays writers get good news