Creative writing in Vancouver's downtown eastside
November 19, 2013 by Elee
Madeleine Thien grew up in Vancouver (you can read about her experiences in V6A) and is back in town as Simon Fraser University’s Writer in Residence. She is engaging with the city in a fascinating way already. Her novel Dogs at the Perimeter sparked this dreamlike website and it seems to have inspired this intriguing collaborative online… Continue reading Madelein Thien On Hastings Street
September 10, 2013 by Elee
Thursdays Writing Collective will have a table at WORD Festival at Library Square on Sept 29, 2013, Sunday, 11-4pm staffed by participants where you can ask questions, buy books and see what we are up to. Last year we made connections with several writers who joined us for The Stanza Project and now appear in… Continue reading WORD Vancouver Literary Festival
January 31, 2013 by Elee
The beauty of a project like V6A is the ongoing connections we forge with people and groups in different areas who work and write with similar impulses. At the launch in Montreal John Asfour and I met Sandra Sjollema, a McGill University researcher who is involved with Anneau Poetique, a writing group in Cote de… Continue reading UK Journal Cites Thursdays Writing Collective
November 19, 2012 by Elee
Join us on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 for our last reading of our launch year. Each of our five readings have been entirely different from each other because of the mix of contributors. Tomorrow Sen Yi, Daniel Zomparelli, Phoenix Winter, Stephen Lytton, Patrick Foley, Robyn Livingston and coeditor Elee Kraljii Gardiner will be at the… Continue reading Last Postal Code Reading of 2012
August 31, 2012 by Elee
Word on the Street Festival is happening on the weekend of September 29-30 and we are very excited for this second year of programming at Carnegie Community Centre. The first day of events at Carnegie includes a reading from V6A with Wayde Compton, Lora McElhinney and Rachel Rose from 3:3:20 in the Theatre. Other events… Continue reading Writing Events and Workshops for DTES writers Sep 29-30
June 5, 2012 by Elee
May 29, 2012 by Elee
We have just planned a five-part reading series for V6A and hope you will attend the launch on June 15 at Carnegie! Readers include Irit Shimrat, Cathleen With, Sen-Yi, Brenda Prince and Antonette Rea. Readers, addresses and times for the reading series dates will be announced shortly.
April 14, 2012 by Elee
The V6A anthology launch included a reading by Henry Doyle, who has written with us for four years. Henry read “Broken Key,” a poem that references his love of manual typewriters. In the audience was cartographer and artist Erick Villagomez. Erick was struck by Henry’s reading and produced this sketch from memory at home later… Continue reading Gesture