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Announcing the winners of the 2012 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest
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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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
The House on Mole Hill
Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest. Read more
Free Me from Anxiety
Winner of the 2009 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest. Read more
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. Read more