Write Like a Deer
Gachet Writers Group &
Suparna Choudhury
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 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 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.
Write Like a Deer is available for purchase at Gallery Gachet.
$10. First Edition of 100. ISBN: 978-0-9947365-3-6
Suparna Choudhury
Suparna Choudhury is an interdisciplinary researcher and writer positioned between academic and community-based research, as well as experimental arts and healing. She trained in neuroscience, history and philosophy of science, and creative writing in London, Paris, Berlin, and Vermont.
She is based in Montreal, where she established Critical Neuroscience at McGill University, a research program examining the social, cultural, and political contexts of neuroscience. Suparna is co-director of Uncertainty Academy, Affiliate Professor at Concordia University, and a Berggruen Institute Fellow in the Future Humans program. She co-founded the Poetry Clinic and leads the research program at the Family Care Collective. Her first novel, Edge Effect, will be published in 2026 by Invisible Publishing.
