Creative Writing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10th, 2009
On May 7, 2009, Dr John Asfour visited the Thursdays writing class at the Carnegie Centre. Dr. Asfour is a Lebanese-Canadian poet, writer, and teacher and is the first writer-in-residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa house. He is the author of four books of poetry in English and two in Arabic. He resides in Montreal, Quebec, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2009
The second chapbook class has taken off. We are about a third of the way through; you are welcome to join us, we’ll find extra chairs! So far we’ve touched on “slanguage,” ways of telling, convincing arguments,antiheroes and tension. For a quick shot of inspiration check out “The Writer’s Book of Wisdom; 101 Rules for […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2009
Last night, March 12, 2009, five readers from the Thursdays chapbook brought their work to Rhizome cafe in Vancouver. The Writer’s Studio reading series was graciously hosted by Jane Mellor, who welcomed Kazakh poet Akerke Mussabekova, Charlotte Morganti and Clarissa Green to the first half of the bill. John Chen started the Thursdays slate with […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2009
Author Evelyn Lau wrote a beautiful essay in the Vancouver Georgia Strait about her experience returning to the Carnegie Centre to join Simon Fraser Univerity’s Writer’s Studio Jamboree in November 2009. Many of the writers from “thursdays” were at the panel discussion and able to ask Lau her thoughts about writing. Lau commented that she […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2009
In the Excerpt section you can get a glimpse of the writers’ work. Please feel free to react to, or comment on, the pieces you read in this supportive forum. If you are moved to write a response piece or share some writing of your own, please do so. The first excerpt was James McLean’s poem […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2009
The chapbook “thursdays: poems and prose from the Downtown Eastside” is a paper reflection of a group of writers that has been meeting every Thursday afternoon at the Carnegie Community Centre on the downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The word “chapbook” is said to come from the Old English “ceop” for “cheap,” meaning that chapbooks are […]
