DTES WRITING CONTEST

A Little Girl Fight

Read a story by Lorren Stewart, one of the winning entries in the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest, about struggle and redemption on the Downtown East Side.

Tavis W. Dodds
320 East Hastings

At the homeless shelter at the First United Church, Tavis W. Dodds learns the closer to the altar, the better the sleep. Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest.

Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest

The writing contest is open to all residents of the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver.

Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski

Read a poem by Henry Doyle, one of the winning entries in the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest, featuring skinny hardened rat-faced drug addicts.

Antonette Rea
Free Me from Anxiety

Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest.

Albert Butcher
The House on Mole Hill

Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest.

Daggar Earnshaw
Wine and Doorbells

Read a poem by Daggar Earnshaw, one of the winning entries in the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest, about something to sip on and something to push.

A Little Girl Fight

Read a story by Lorren Stewart, one of the winning entries in the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest, about struggle and redemption on the Downtown East Side.

Tavis W. Dodds
320 East Hastings

At the homeless shelter at the First United Church, Tavis W. Dodds learns the closer to the altar, the better the sleep. Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest.

Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest

The writing contest is open to all residents of the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver.

Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski

Read a poem by Henry Doyle, one of the winning entries in the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest, featuring skinny hardened rat-faced drug addicts.

Antonette Rea
Free Me from Anxiety

Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest.

Albert Butcher
The House on Mole Hill

Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest.