10/02/2026
Write Like a Deer is a collection of essays, poetry and hybrid texts that were written by the Gachet Writer's Group and Suparna Choudhury (Suparna) at the Recovery Cafe in response to Choudhury’s writing prompt about sensory writing and lingering in what we don't yet know. Participants wrote and rewrote texts that stayed in perception before entering into meaning, letting uncertainty enter both language and form. Suparna Choudhury was hosted as an writer-in-residence at Gallery Gachet to facilitate the workshop that led to Write Like a Deer in 2026. The chapbook was launched at the Downtown Eastside Writers' Festival in Vancouver in May 2026, alongside a writing session by Cecily Nicholson.
Gachet Writer's Group was created in April 2024 and is led by Bruce Ray. It is a collective who gather to participate in conversations about the process of creativity, and who speak to mental illness and problems of stigma. Write Like a Deer contains writings by both members and participants including Jaeger Cormack, Landon D. Hildebrandt, Quin Martins, Catherine McLellan, Simon Michelini, Nathaniel Miller, Rory Mills, Cynthia Peng, Tom Quirk, Bruce Ray, and Sandra Yuen.
The publication is available for purchase at Gallery Gachet. First edition of 100.
