Creative Works

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

Sorry – 2020

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By the Play Writing Group Quirk-e’s original one-hour play written to be performed on Zoom. It’s about a queer writers’ ...

Memories, Dreams, Fears and Hopes – 2024

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Quirk-e collected pieces from our members and our community that give voice to the hopes and dreams and some of ...

Book Review: Front Line Nursing Stories: An Anthology from the 1940s to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Greg Bourgeois

Anyone considering a career in nursing and who wants to learn what the job is really like should read this ...

Book Review: Rez Dog Blues & The Haiku: A Savage Life in Bits and Pieces

Greg Bourgeois

William George Lindsay’s novel was the winner of Best Indie Book Award for Native American Fiction in 2023 and finalist ...

Telling her stories through images

Judy Fletcher

Judy exhibits her autobiographical collage project from 2015 Judy Fletcher writes wonderful prose but she also tells her stories through ...

Awareness of elder abuse – 2016

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Quirk-e helped develop a series of posters and public service videos to raise awareness about abuse of LGBTQ2S+ elders. We ...

video: wayson choy – introduction to quirk-e collections

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Award-winning Canadian author Wayson Choy introduces the fifth volume of anthologies published by QUIRK-E. Wayson was a mentor and editor ...

video: the bridge generation

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Four queer elders look at their lives within the framework of unprecedented social change. This video project became the basis ...

video: memory in two voices

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A POEM BY BRIDGET COLL AND CHRIS MORRISSEY Bridget and Chris read a poem about dealing with a diagnosis of ...

Baja Haiku

Don Martin

For many years my husband John Konovsky and I have driven 3,400 km to Loreto, Baja California Sur for winter ...