COVID-19 Safety Plan: While the heritage house is temporarily closed to visitors, writers-in-residence continue to live and work at the house and offer writing workshops and other programs online. Experience the house from home or take a virtual tour. Outdoor guided tours will resume in February 2021.
While in residency, our writers share their thoughts on our blog, give out valuable writing advice, and engage with the community via different programs of writing-focused activities. Read all about it here and don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter, so you don’t ever miss a new blog post or event!
Historic Joy Kogawa House Recent News
More Not-So-Pretty Haiku: Impermanence
“Instalment #2 of not-so-pretty cherry blossom haiku: Blossom petals on the ground always create a little anxious ambivalence in me…” Guest post by Isabella Mori.
Historic Joy Kogawa House Previous Blog Posts
The Kogawa Tree Artists Call: Kjerstin Mackie
“I have always loved dolls, seen them as friends. A tree’s broken branches cannot come back, but I plan to make a doll friend that will be created from a tree friend.”
—Kjerstin Mackie
The Rougher Side Of Cherry Blossoms
Guest Post by Isabella Mori. “…People think of cherry blossoms when they think of haiku. I do, too – but so much so that I’ve lost my taste for pretty cherry blossom…”
Haiku and History Workshop with Isabella Mori
Join us on April 25 for a writing workshop with Isabella Mori to learn about the history of haiku and to write your own haiku about important moments in personal, cultural, or geographic history.
Mental Health & Addiction with Isabella Mori
Mental Health & Addiction: Poems, short stories, interviews, research. Isabella Mori will share their project that combines poems and short stories with interviews and research on the topics of mental health and addiction, from loneliness to neurodiversity and the...