V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

V6A is the postal prefix for Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Canada's poorest neighborhood and a prime example of the ramifications of urban blight in North America; it is also the epicenter of a notorious missing women's case in which many sex workers and others were murdered, and home to a controversial safe-injection site for drug users.

This anthology refracts the experience of those who live and work in the Downtown Eastside, reappropriating the coding of the area and recasting the …