Creative Works

Quirk-e members’ creative expression in every form – writing, painting, drawing, film, and more.

book review: recovering spirits

Don Martin

Recovering Spirits Volume II. A beautifully designed chapbook compiled by Jill Mandrake. The stories explore the coincidental yet supernatural experience ...

Timeless: a 20 Minute Poem

Margo Dunn

The girl’s on track, on time, on a streetcar after schoolcopybooks squared into her elbow aswestern sunshine strobes her faceas ...

Red Boot Laces – Grise Fiord

Harris Taylor

The Tone was established on Day One at CBC Eastern Arctic when the manager gave me a tour of Iqaluit. ...

Max Dexall

Marsha Ablowitz

In 1954 when I was 10, a short older man with dark wavy hair came for dinner. He brought expensive ...

Video: Bill Morrow Digital Story Project

Bill Morrow

This story focusses on Bill Morrow’s journey as a Queer Elder. He was the eldest member of Quirk-e which he ...

video: baffin caribou on the road to nowhere

Harris Taylor

Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem and biosphere levels. During my ...

Child’s Play

Gayle Roberts

School doors open with a bangThe playground fillsgroups of boys and groups of girlsnever to mix Boys at playPushing and ...

challenges …and triumphs! – 2024

QUIRK-E

This Zine’s theme is Challenges and Triumphs. Our title for this edition reflects our taking stock of the ups and ...

We’re not ‘Breeds!

Stephen Hardy

My Uncle George was always on the go. He’d be on a goose shoot, a duck shoot, or a prairie ...

book review: hijab butch blues – a memoir

Annie Newman

This moving and intimate memoir, in essays which range from the author’s childhood to their residency in the United States for ...