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• Writing Circle Spotlight: Poetry Writers' Circle

  • When
    25 Nov 2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join us Tuesday, November 25 at 7:00 pm Pacific for our a Writing Circle Spotlight featuring the Poetry Writers' Circle with readers Kelsey Andrews (group facilitator), Emma B, Kath Healing, Medwyn McConachy, KB Nelson, and Bonnie Waterstone, hosted by Meaghan Hackinen

  Register here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) and a link will be sent to you. When it's time for the event, click on the link to join the live Zoom event. To find our more about the FBCW's online Writing Circles https://bcwriters.ca/circles. We look forward to seeing you there!

  Digital Doors Open at 6:55 pm!

  *This event will be recorded.

  

  
  

  Kelsey Andrews writes mostly poetry. Her first collection, Big Sky Falling, came out with Ronsdale Press in 2021. She is proud to facilitate the Poetry Writers' Circle with the FBCW. She also offers all-level workshops in person and on zoom. Visit her at kelseyandrews.ca.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  Emma B was born in Vancouver but took a ferry over to Victoria in her late twenties and never looked back. She is an acupuncturist by day and a beginner potter by night.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  Kath Healing (they/them) is a queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent poet from the UK, now living on the unceded, unsurrendered lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking peoples (Victoria, BC). Their work traces how class, gender, and disability are archived in everyday artifacts, braiding eco-grief with queer survival and endurance. Winner of the 2025 Victoria Writers’ Society Poetry Contest, they have recent and forthcoming work in Plenitude, Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2), Garland, The Ekphrastic  Review, JLRB Press, and elsewhere. They perform regularly at slam and open-mic events, blending tenderness, wit, and defiance into collective voice. Find Kath on Instagram and Bluesky @kathhealing, and on Facebook @thekathhealing.

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  Medwyn McConachy is a poet and fibre artist whose creative practice is inspired by connection to the living world and human impacts on the beings who share the lands she gratefully calls home, on unceded Quw’utsun territory settler named Salt Spring Island.  Much of what lands on her page and in her fibre art is generated through her contemplative solitary walking practice in the forests surrounding her home.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  KB Nelson is a Rhysling-nominated writer of poetry and short fiction. Her writing has appeared in over two dozen journals and anthologies, and she has published two handbound chapbooks of poetry. KB has resided from coast to coast in Canada, in Arizona, and in New Zealand. She currently lives, writes, and hikes the beaches and forests on the unceded territory of the Sechelt First Nation. She looks at Instagram occasionally @kb.nelson.wordsmith, and can also be found on Facebook.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  Bonnie Waterstone feels grateful and honoured to live and garden in Ch'kw'elhp (Gibsons) unceded Squamish lands on the Sunshine Coast.  She stumbled back into writing poetry in her 70s after a variety of paying jobs anchored in reading, writing, language and literacy.  Her poems these days often revive snippets of stories from her mixed and mottled past or sing of trees or laugh at the discoveries of aging.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  Meaghan Hackinen (FBCW host): is a bike-obsessed bookworm on a lifelong hunt for exceptional cycling routes, both on and off the pavement. Her cross-continental bike race memoir, Shifting Gears, was released by NeWest Press in 2023 and is available in print, ebook, and audiobook. When she's not lost in the mountains or chasing the sunset, she probably has her nose tucked in a book. Find her online: meaghanhackinen.com.

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• Sunday Webinar: Writing and Research in the Age of (Mis)Information with Mark Cameron

  • When
    30 Nov 2025
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    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Writing and Research in the Age of (Mis)Information

  with Mark Cameron

  Member Price: $18

  Non-Member Price is $28

  **This event will be recorded. Registrants can access the recording for 45 days.
  

  Workshop/Event Description

  A writer’s guide to curating—and being curated—in the age of content creation, this workshop reflects on the challenges and opportunities that social media, self-publishing, and Artificial Intelligence present to writers.

  Expected Takeaways

  • How to conduct quality research in a sea of (mis)information
  • The role of traditional publishing in a world of user-generated content
  • How AI really works (at least in its current form)
  • How to use the internet without being used by it.
    

  
  

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  Intended audience:

  Writers of every skill level

  Bio:

  Mark Cameron likes to say that he's a versatile writer, because "versatile" sounds much better than "unfocused." A recent graduate of the University of King's College (MFA in Creative Nonfiction), Mark is trying to coax three books, several short stories, and a handful of poems toward publication. He also keeps busy planning the 2026 Wine Country Writers' Festival, reading submissions for several literary contests, providing mentorship and editing services, and building workshops that challenge writers to look at the world ever so slightly askew.

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• Fireside Chat with Frances Peck and Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho

  • When
    3 Dec 2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  The Federation of BC Writers is excited to present a Fireside Chat with Frances Peck and Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho. This chat will be about an hour long, and the audience will have an opportunity to ask questions.

  Join us on Wednesday, December 3rd at 7:00 pm Pacific by registering here and a Zoom link for the event will be sent to you. When it’s time for the event you can click on the Zoom link to join the event.

  Digital doors open at 6:55 pm!

  **This event will be recorded. 

  
  

  Frances Peck was an editor, ghostwriter, and editing/writing instructor before turning to creative writing. Her debut novel, The Broken Places, was a Globe and Mail best book of 2022 and a finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Her second novel, Uncontrolled Flight, made several 2023 book-of-the-year lists. Frances, the FBCW Ambassador, is on her own revision quest these days, doing deep edits to her new novel.

  Find Frances' latest release, Uncontrolled Flight, here.

  
  

  With roots in Taiwan and Canada, Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho identifies as Generation 1.5, inhabiting the liminal spaces between cultures, languages, places, and identities. Her award-winning short stories and personal essays have appeared in anthologies and literary journals. She is at work on a memoir about growing up in a Taiwanese-Canadian “astronaut” family.
  

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• Book Club for Writers: "How to Talk About Writing" with special guest Barbara Turner-Vesselago

  • When
    4 Dec 2025
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    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  This event was originally scheduled for November 20th. Due to a scheduling conflict, the event will now be taking place on December 4th at 2:00 pm. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

  
  

  Member Price: Free (with donation options)

  Non-Member Price: $10

  **Note the afternoon time. Digital doors open at 1:55 pm; event starts at 2:00 pm Pacific Time 

  **Portions of this event will be recorded and made available to registrants to view for 45 days. Breakout room discussions will not be recorded.

  
  

  The Federation of BC Writers invites you to participate in our newest programming initiative: Book Club for Writers! This online book club for writers offers an opportunity to read and discuss books related to the craft of writing. Book Club events are 75 minutes long and feature a combination of small group discussion using breakout rooms, large group discussion in the main room, as well as an opportunity to hear the author, contributor, editor, or special guest’s insights and ask questions.

  
  

  Our final 2025 pick is How to Talk About Writing: A Fundamental Shift in Perspective (Vivid Publishing). We are thrilled to have the author, Barbara Turner-Vesselago, join us! Register here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) to receive the event link, discussion questions, and reminders. Purchase the book, review the discussion questions, and when it's time for the event, click on the link to join the live Zoom event. We look forward to seeing you there!

  
  

  BOOK BLURB:

  This book provides invaluable advice for all who long to respond constructively to writers who seek their input, but who don’t know how or where to begin.  With insight and clarity, Barbara Turner-Vesselago distils the essentials of ‘How To Talk About Writing’ into six revolutionary discoveries

  Seasoned writing mentors and editors will be inspired to abandon old paradigms of editorial criticism. Those new to giving feedback will find straightforward tips—easy to comprehend and instantly rewarding to apply.

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  Barbara Turner-Vesselago is the author of three successful writing books and a mentor to hundreds of published authors worldwide. Informative and user-friendly, this is a vital guide for writers’ groups, university seminars, and even for frank and informal one-on-one discussions between friends.

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  1. Register here to receive the discussion questions and event link

  2. Purchase your print or electronic version of the book

  3. Read the book and consider the discussion questions (emailed two weeks before meeting)

  • Order How to Talk About Writing from your local bookstore
  • Purchase direct from the publisher
  • Purchase from Amazon
  • Purchase ebook from Kobo or Kindle

  4. Join the Book Club meeting using the Zoom link to discuss your responses and hear from our presenter!

  
  

  Please email Meaghan@bcwriters.ca if you have any questions, or would like to suggest a book.

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• Fall WordWorks Launch: Celebrating Our TD Emerging Writers

  • When
    4 Dec 2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join us as we celebrate the launch of “Our Voices, Our Stories” a special issue of WordWorks magazine.
  
  Rachel Dunstan Muller, the managing editor of WordWorks, will host this launch event, with brief readings from TD Emerging Writers Kaye Anderson-Gosselin, Francis Chang, Wai-Kin Arthur Chau, Storri Chesson, Antoinette Cheung, Harkit Dhillon, Jenny Garcha, Goldbard, Sonia Kaur, Demian Pettman, Elsie Reford, Nicholas Tremblay, and Ferin Willms.
  
  Thanks to a generous donation from TD Connected Communities, the FBCW launched the TD Emerging Writers Mentorship Program earlier this year. Nineteen emerging writers with little or no previous publication history were paired with mentors from their own equity-seeking communities.
  
  Over the summer, the emerging writers received encouragement and guidance as they pitched articles for WordWorks, wrote first drafts, and edited their final pieces. “Our Voices, Our Stories” showcases the final submissions of thirteen of these emerging writers. (The remaining writers will see their work published online or in a subsequent issue.)
  
  Please join us as we celebrate the work of these courageous and thought-provoking contributors.

  
  

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• December Writers' Social

  • When
    9 Dec 2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join us for a Writers' Social on Tuesday, December 9 from 7:00 - 8:15 PM Pacific by registering here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) and a Zoom link for the event will be sent to you. When it’s time for the event you can click on the Zoom link to join the event.

  
  

  Many of us strive for a connection with our fellow writers. This members-only monthly event is designed to bring us together for casual chats with breakout rooms. Join us to talk craft, career, and connection for about 75 minutes over Zoom. Meet new people and get the most out of being a part of a provincial organization! Below are the proposed discussion groups for this month's meeting (subject to change). Please email meaghan@bcwriters.ca if you would like to suggest a discussion topic for an upcoming meeting. See you there!

  
  

  Discussion Groups:

  • All about poetry 
  • Editing and revision
  • Children's picture books
  • What are you reading? Current reads, favourite books, and how they've impacted you and your writing
  • CNF/memoir writers connect
  • Travel writing
  • Connecting writers with chronic illnesses
  • Romance writers
  • General writing discussion

  
  

  Digital Doors Open at 6:55 pm, Event Starts at 7:00 PM Pacific

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