Creative Writing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2011
On March 17, members of SFU’s 2011 Writer’s Studio joined the Writers Caravan in their first encounter. We spoke about the role of questioning in writing. We began with a working definition of poetry as being “questions without answers,” this taken from the wonderful, “Poetry Everywhere” from T&W Books, 2005. Off the top we each […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2011
Today, February 23, 2011, we had a writing session with a group of second and third year law students from Professor Margot Young’s course. Many of them had not written since highschool, though all expressed an interest in getting back to it. Their ability to jump into the prompts with us was wonderful. We did […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 2011
In our first class on February 3, 2011, we explored a poem by Mary Oliver, “The Rabbit,” and wrote about the characteristics of people born under the Chinese zodiac’s Year of the Rabbit. Mary Bennett of BC Arts Council supplied the descriptions and posted three of the pieces generated here. Below are the prompts, which […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2011
Join us for the eighth Thursdays Writing Collective course beginning February 3, 2011. We meet Thursdays from 2-4pm in the Carnegie Centre until June 9. The first two classes will have to do with Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rabbit. We have been invited to post our written work on the Vancouver […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2010
Our last class of 2010 is this week, December 9. We start again on February 3, 2011. This has been a fruitful, exciting course with many new members of the Collective. Thank you to the guest authors who visited us, beginning with poet Fiona Lam in October. Fiona took us through revision stages of her […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 5th, 2010
During the cast and crew screening of the Memory Festival’s “Rewind: Memory on Tape” (click above for details) we received good news for three Thursdays writers: their one-sentence memories of Vancouver have been chosen as winners in Geist’s competition. Joan Morelli, Anne Hopkinson and Beth Buchanan wrote lovely memories that will be printed and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2010
Elee Kraljii Gardiner and guest author Michael Turner are hosting an evening of social writing with members of Thursdays Writing Collective as part of the Heart of the City Festival on November 4th, 2010. All writers and non-writers, jokers, thinkers and passersby are welcome. Write to the City: Adventures in Social Writing Thursday, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 3rd, 2010
The Thursdays Writing Collective has created a fourth anthology titled, “StoryBox.” We are launching it with an evening of readings on Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 8pm at the Brickhouse at 730 Main St (at Prior) in Vancouver. Admission is free or by donation. In StoryBox participants evoke the objects and concepts they consider imperative […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2010
The Vancouver Storytelling Festival takes place June 12-13, 2010 in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall St. On Sunday June 13, members of the Thursdays Writing Collective and other participants in the StoryBox Project will perform. The bamboo grove in the public park adjacent to the Garden will be woven with red […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2010
This spring we are participating in the StoryBox Project, which unites writing groups throughout the Lower Mainland of Vancouver. Each group creates a themed box of some sort, which we fill with physical objects related to the theme and pieces of creative writing related to the objects. The Thursdays Writing Collective chose to work with […]
