Our year of thinking and writing about food under the banner “Sustain and Nourish” was ripe with creative innovation. Anne Watson, who spent the year working as TWC’s  program coordinator and is now stepping down from that role, brought her video skills to bear. She made this delightful record of some of the things we… Continue reading Sustain and Nourish Video Wrap Up

We invite you to celebrate the launch of Thursdays Writing Collective’s eighth anthology of creative writing! We spent a year thinking and writing about food in conjunction with Vancouver Poet Laureate Rachel Rose’s community-broadening mandate. Our project, SUSTAIN AND NOURISH, allowed us to question beliefs about food, notions of food safety and politics, ideas of… Continue reading The Menu

Thursdays Writing Collective participants are invited to a special class on Thursday, May 26, 2016 from 2-4pm held at Heartwood Community Cafe instead of Carnegie Community Centre. This delicious literary event is to celebrate our year of writing about food! May 26, 2016, Thursday   2-4pm Heartwood Community Café, 317 E. Broadway *Instead of our regular… Continue reading Special Class May 26, 2015

We’re excited to support our friends at Megaphone magazine as they launch their beautiful annual book Voices of the Street. Three of our writers have pieces in the book – Jan Tse, James Witwicki and Henry Doyle! Join us May 12th for a night of storytelling and readings from Megaphone’s 6th Annual Literary Edition, Voices of the Street, co-presented… Continue reading Neighbourhood Writing

Here’s a beautiful, tight video of Henry Doyle sharing his thoughts on why he writes. Henry is about to apply for his second Small Arts Grants. His first helped him produce the chapbook East Van Poems. He had a very clear vision of what he wanted to do and thanks to the grant, he did… Continue reading On Writing