Creative Writing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 25th, 2011
The UBC Faculty of Law newsletter has a write-up of our Writers Caravan experience with the UBC Law students. Thanks to all who participated in uniting the writing communities. Although we had planned the Writers Caravan to be a one-off, plans are brewing to collaborate with UBC law again in the 2011/2012 course year.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2011
Fifteen readers from the four participating groups read on the beautiful summer solstice night June 21, 2011. The pieces they read are reflections of the generative space we created during our writing encounters at Carnegie throughout the spring. You will have a chance to read some of them, as well as others, in the publication […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 10th, 2011
Our pilot project is celebrating a culmination on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 7pm at Vancouver’s Roundhouse Community Centre. Four writing groups – UBC Law students, 2011 Writer’s Studio members, Write Club Literary Mamas and Thursdays Writing Collective are uniting for the first time. We have written together one-on-one and read on double […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17th, 2011
On Monday night May 16, 2011 members of Thursdays Writing Collective crossed town for a reading at Westside Family place at 11th and McDonald hosted by Write Club, a group of literary mothers formed off their experience with the Momoir project. The childcare centre was a warm setting for our joint reading, which was thoughtfully […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2011
Congratulations to the Writers Caravan participants who read at Take 5 Café on Friday, April 15, 2010. They were astounding. Thanks to Lai Fung, Henry and Irit from Thursdays Writing Collective and to Rua, Dhana, Meg and Yaana from SFU’s Writer’s Studio for sharing their interesting pieces with the audience. They all made an impact […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 13th, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011 7pm Take 5 Café (on Granville and Hastings) The Writers Caravan is holding its second of three readings, this one a collaboration between SFU’s Writer’s Studio and Thursdays Writing Collective. Join us for a glimpse of the writing resulting from a creative encounter between the two groups. Click below to download […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 5th, 2011
Yesterday, April 4, 2011, we literally caravanned, in two vans, from Carnegie up the hill to UBC where we were warmly welcomed to the University Centre by Professor Margot Young and her social justice law students. The students provided a fabulous snack display and we nestled right in to an hour and a half of […]
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 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 […]
