Creative writing in Vancouver's downtown eastside
February 22, 2012 by Elee
Here is some updated information on our plan for The Stanza Project. Because it is a collaboration with Mark Proosten, an architect in the Netherlands, Mark and I started a facebook page to be able to stay in touch easily with anyone interested in what Thursdays Writing Collective and MLP Proosten Architects are doing. On… Continue reading News on The Stanza Project
February 16, 2012 by Elee
Many of us in Thursdays Writing Collective are ready to move towards organizing our writing into manuscripts that may become chapbooks, books or projects. This spring there is a phenomenal chance to work with a professional writer one on one. Read below for all the details! DTES WRITERS WANTED FOR DTES MANUSCRIPT COACHING Do you… Continue reading DTES Writers: Want help getting a manuscript together?
February 7, 2012 by Elee
The love letter is a form that can go far beyond a profession of romance for one’s paramour. As writers in the Downtown Eastside, an area in Canada with one of the highest per capita rates of artists, we are inspired by the people around us. In honour of World Community Arts day we’ll… Continue reading Writing Love Letters to Art and Artists
February 3, 2012 by Elee
Join our pages for Thursdays Writing Collective, The Writers Caravan and The Stanza Project! Just click on the links or search for is by name.
January 31, 2012 by Elee
Hi everyone, We begin our writing sessions again on Thursday, February 9, 2012 from 2pm-4pm. If you want a seat at the table, come on time! A prompt will be up on the board for you to start with and once everyone has had a chance to settle in and get some words down,… Continue reading Class Starts Feb 9, 2012!
January 23, 2012 by Elee
Poet laureate and friend of Thursdays Fred Wah was Michael Enright’s guest on the CBC radio’s Sunday edition on Jan 22, 2012. Here’s the link to the show. Fred speaks about the vibrant community of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and mentions us. He’s in hour two of the program.
January 20, 2012 by Elee
The Stanza Project stanza: n., an arrangement or grouping of lines within a poem. Origin: Italian. room, station, stopping place. This spring we launch The Stanza Project, an international collaboration between Belgian architecture firm MLP Proosten and Vancouver’s Thursdays Writing Collective. As residents of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) members of TWC recognize and confront systematic… Continue reading The Stanza Project – an intro to our pilot project for spring 2012
November 28, 2011 by Elee
We are excited to have Fred Wah joining on us on Thursday, Dec 1, 2-4pm to read his work and write with Thursdays Writing Collective. Fred is the author of 17 books, many of them award-winning titles, and has been engaged in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside literary community most recently with October’s V125 Poetry Conference and… Continue reading Rockstar Guest Author Fred Wah Visits Dec 1!
November 3, 2011 by Elee
We are launching our fifth chapbook on Friday, November 18, 2011 at 8:15pm at the Roundhouse Community Centre! The launch is part of the Memory Festival a week of arts programming related to the notion of memory and is supported by Geist magazine and SFU. Ten of us will be reading, representing the four different… Continue reading Writers Caravan Anthology Chapbook Launch
September 28, 2011 by Elee
Our editing sessions are beginning after each class on Thursdays. Joan Flood and Kevin Spenst are happy to meet with writers beginning at 4pm in one on one 20 minute sessions to go over texts produced in class. Joan and Kevin are part of Thursdays Editing Collective and also lead workshops that allow writers… Continue reading Learn about editing with Thursdays Editing Collective