The Writer’s Group is into its second year and meets twice a month at the Sidney/North Saanich Library. We are a self-directed group supported by our library who books the Nell Horth room for all meetings and helps to organize guest speakers as well as advertising all events and authors invited to speak. There are two meetings a month on the 2nd and last Thursday, running from September to June
from 6:30pm-8pm. Our goal is to involve the community interested in writing of all genres, to share work, ideas and information to keep the creativity flowing. The guest speakers brought in cover an array of topics to further your writing career. On the second Thursday of the month, the meetings include writing exercises as well as 4 guest speakers a year organized by the group and Library. The last meeting of the month is a relaxed atmosphere for writers to come and enjoy eachothers work and offer gentle critiquing to share ideas if requested for a piece the writer is working on. The focus of the group meetings is to develop a local community of writers that supports one another. We learn through ideas shared, as well as benefiting from published authors who visit to share their writing experiences from beginning to end. It is open to all genres at all levels, the purpose being to continue creativity of written work.
