We Love Libraries
July 30, 2013 by Elee
We hold our writing sessions two floors above the Carnegie Community Centre DTES branch of the Vancouver Public Library and we have a close relationship with the staff there. Vancouver reader, writer, activist, teacher Rita Wong sent this letter today. We’re sharing it with her permission. Dear readers & writers, If you’ve recently… Continue reading We Love Libraries
The Stanza Project Launch
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
In Memory of Meg Torwl
June 25, 2013 by Elee
Our dear friend Meg Torwl, a contributor to The Writers Caravan, our 5th chapbook, passed quietly June 21st, right in time for equinox and a lovely full moon. Meg had a peaceful passing. Here she is a few weeks ago at a birthday event listening to a friend. Meg’s friend Dhana Musil, another Writers… Continue reading In Memory of Meg Torwl
The Stanza Project launches!
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!
Virginia Woolf Conference
May 26, 2013 by Elee
We are excited to share our experience with The Stanza project at the 23rd Annual Virginia Woolf Conference taking place in Vancouver, June 6-9, 2013. The topic this year is Woolf and the (common)wealth reader. We will be reading and speaking on Friday from 3-4pm. SFU’s Helen Wussow, who is an organizer of the… Continue reading Virginia Woolf Conference
Speeding
May 13, 2013 by Elee
Recently we spent a class considering speed. We used antonyms of “slow” as a writing prompt. We read a poem by Dan Beachy-Quick that gives this partial line: Your ears parenthesize nothing And we wrote from a line by US Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger who stepped from the gondola of a helium balloon… Continue reading Speeding
Widerruf
April 11, 2013 by Elee
In a recent class Matt Malyon introduced us to the german term widerruf, loosely translated as to revoke, contest, appeal. To answer back. All writing is a conversation. Yet when we consider the idea of widerruf as we write we engage with the text in a more immediate and intimate way. Suddenly we are on… Continue reading Widerruf
Poet Matt Malyon Guest Teaching
March 14, 2013 by Elee
Tomorrow, and for the next two classes, (March 21,28) Matt Malyon will be leading part of the session. Matt is completing his MFA at UBC and part of that involves a practicum. We are thrilled to have him join in this way – his “how to write a submission query letter” last fall was a… Continue reading Poet Matt Malyon Guest Teaching
What do I need?
February 21, 2013 by Elee
With such a diverse and changing group of writers, it helps to check in and see what our goals are so we get what we want out of our time together. Some of us have been writing together for six years now and we continue to welcome new members every week. Last week we had… Continue reading What do I need?
Hey, artists!
February 19, 2013 by Elee
The Art Cart is a mobile art gallery and vending cart with a home at Gallery Gachet, an artist-run centre on East Cordova Street in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The Art Cart is bicycle-powered and capable of serving as a workshop table, exhibition space and alternative art sales space. It is designed to expose Downtown Eastside… Continue reading Hey, artists!
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