Vancouver's 100 Thousand Poets for Change

2016 Solarpunk Contest

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There's a teaser up for our next contest, which will be two contests: short story writing and art, with the theme of solarpunk. Please watch the contest site for the initial news. Details coming March 1.

2015 Poets for Change

This year we are doing an anthology resulting from last year's contest. The anthology, Winds of Change: Short Stories about Our Climate, is being published October 16th. Our event this year will be the book launch on November 17. More details to come!

2014 Poets for Change

Hey folks, it has been a while since we really wrote, but we're now gearing up for 2014's 100,000 Poets for Change event on September 27.

Due to the hectic-ness of my life (school, work, running a press, etc.) I have talked with Michael Rothenberg, the main event organizer, about doing a virtual event this year. Vancouver will still be represented, and I hope to continue to include Vancouver poets, but we have a definite global theme this year: climate change in literature. And so, authors everywhere will be invited to participate.

2013 Poets for Change

Third annual 100,000 Poets for Change Event in the Lower Mainland, hosted by Moon Willow Press

Register: http://www.shorelinecleanup.ca/en/cleanup/event/fall2013/mundy-lake
Where: Mundy Lake, Coquitlam, BC
What: Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup (poetry reading to follow)
When: September 28, 10:00 am - TBA

2012 event photos and chapbook

Our 2012 event was great, and we plan to do another 100,000 Poets for Change event September 28, 2013. Moon Willow Press is creating a chapbook of poems read at our Earthwalk. More information here. The home-bound Japanese stitched book goes on sale in early December, and the e-book is already at Amazon.

100,000 Poets for Change takes place again on September 29, 2012. Elaine Woo has offered to help organize this year's event, and we have come up with a plan!

2011: Final details for our cleanup at False Creek East

Hi everyone,

Here are the last details for our False Creek East cleanup from 1:00 to about 2:15, Saturday, September 24th, near Science World. (2011)