Creative Works

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

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

Chris Morrissey

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 ...

Shining a Light on Rainbow Life – 2023

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This zine spotlights what is relevant to us, past or present, through the written word and evocative images. The writing ...

video: i am hungry for . . .

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Quirk-e is an alumni group of the Arts and Healthy Aging program of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation ...

video: zoom greeting to the annual idahotb gathering in 2021

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The COVID pandemic prevented us from attending the annual IDAHOTB gathering in Vancouver in 2021, so Quirk-e made this short ...