We had a beautiful celebration on April 12, 2018 – a very warm wrap up to our ten years of writing together. Thank you to VFS Cafe for hosting us, to Lisa Jean Helps, our board member, for selling books, to Potluck catering for the snacks, to Fiona Tinwei Lam for her generosity, to Tom… Continue reading Goodbye Party and Book Launch

Here is the press release we are sharing widely. It is with much gratitude that we announce our final book and the end of our program as of April 5, 2018. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursdays Writing Collective Celebrates 10 Years With Its Final Chapbook Release Vancouver, unceded ancestral lands of Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish people March… Continue reading News!

Visiting scholar Alicia Elliot took time away from her month-long (hectic) schedule at UBC to come write with us Feb 8, 2018. That’s her holding our chapbooks in the middle back row! Alicia Elliott is a Tuscarora writer living in Brantford, Ontario. Her writing has been published by Room, Maisonneuve, Grain, The New Quarterly and… Continue reading Visit with Alicia Elliot

Join us for an All-Writers Meeting All writers and friends of Thursdays Writing Collective are welcome to come and reflect on our landmark 10 Year Anniversary and to discuss the literary community in the DTES. Hosted by Elee Kraljii Gardiner Thursday January 11 3 – 4:30 pm Carnegie Theatre From 2 – 2:45 we’ll open… Continue reading Ten Years of TWC

On Saturday November 4, 2017 we’ll be part of the Heart of the City Festival. 4pm – 5pm in the Carnegie Community Centre Theatre Stories of Her: Thursdays Writing Collective Honours Women of the DTES  Celebrating 10 years of writing, gathering, and sharing on the DTES. Join us as we come together to share work on… Continue reading Heart of the City Festival

Hello, writers, and welcome back to the 10th year of writing together. Our first class will be this Thursday September 14th, 2017 in our third floor classroom at Carnegie Community Centre. Cara Lang and Curtis Au Coin are looking forward to writing and reconnecting with you!

See you mid-September at Carnegie when writing sessions start up again. Have a great summer!

On Thursday April 27, we were visited by author Kai Cheng Thom, who read from her new poetry collection a place called No Homeland. One of the poems Kai read was “the river.” This poem alone generated a lot of writing and passionate discussion. Below is “the river”, as well as response poems written by… Continue reading Thursdays responds to Kai Cheng Thom’s poem “the river”