Creative Works

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

Dal and Chandra, the Warrior and the Climber

Marsha Ablowitz

On ruined planet earth in a tiny life cube Dal is crying: If I jump I hit the hard. If ...

First Crush

Farren Gillaspie

When talking about my youth it can often sound like a Charles Dickens novel. As well as the worst of ...

Lucy the Cat Meets Santa at the Mall

Lorri Rudland

Jane’s cat, Lucy, had been quite naughty this year so Jane planned to take her to visit Santa Claus at ...

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. ...

We Dreamed of Going to Haida Gwaii

Greta Hurst

I first met Sheila in Toronto. I had just returned to Canada after living in Europe when my children were ...

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: Theatre of the Unemployed Digital Story Project

Don Martin

Theatre of the Unemployed’s style varied but our philosophy was to involve people directly affected by an issue in writing ...