Pearl Miller's house at 526-9th Avenue SE. The literary history cabaret, Writing the East Village took place at Loft 112 (535-8th Ave SE) directly to the north of the site where Miller ran her brothel in the 1920s. (Photo: Calgary Public Library Alison Jackson Collection)
Many of these works were featured at Writing the East Village: A Literary History Cabaret held at Loft 112 on March 29, 2016.
Early Days
Sir Cecil Denny, The Law Marches West (Dent, 1939)
Cheryl Foggo & Clem Martini, “Chapter Six,” Noir on Eighth (yycpennydreadful.ca, 2015)
Between the Wars
Nancy Jo Cullen, “526 – 9 Avenue SE,” Pearl (Frontenac House, 2006)
Deborah Willis & Kris Demeanor, “Chapter One,” Noir on Eighth (yycpennydreadful.ca, 2015)
Roberta Rees, “Iodine,” Long After Fathers (Coteau, 2007)
1970s/80s
Karen Connelly, “To Strike the Eye and Sound the Heart,” in Last Call (Rocky Mountain Books, 2010)
Bruce Hunter, “The Many Happy Returns of Kenny Dawes,” Country Music Country (Thistledown Press, 1996)
Contemporary
Max Ciesielski & Kris Demeanor, “One Dime at a Time,” Shelter from the Storm (CD, 2015)
Karen Connelly, “Shelter on the Banks of the Bow,” Come Cold River (Quattro Books, 2013)
Rosemary Griebel, “Walking with Walt Whitman Through Calgary’s Eastside on a Winter Day,” Yes (Frontenac House, 2011)
Rosemary Griebel, “Of Memory and Place: East Village,” (unpublished, 2014)
Jill Hartman, “Simmons Ltd. Beds Mattresses Springs Pillows,” A Painted Elephant (Coach House Books, 2003)
Aritha van Herk, “Rough,” In This Place: Calgary 2004-2011 (Frontenac House, 2011)
George Webber, Last Call (Rocky Mountain Books, 2010)
Robin van Eck, Rough (Stonehouse Publishing, 2020)