Anyone Can Write. Your creative juices will flow at this weekly meet up session. A supportive atmosphere where aspiring writers can encourage and learn creative writing skills and share their pieces in a non judgemental group setting. Beginner and experienced writers are welcome to attend. The group will run weekly and writers of all levels can focus on non/fiction writing/ memoirs; personal narrative. Please bring a notebook

Would you classify yourself as a geek or a nerd? Do you like science fiction and fantasy, movies and TV, comic books and board games, cosplay, and any of the other wonderfulness that the muggles might classify as weird? Are you looking to make new friends or re-connect with some old ones who share these similar interests? Do like watching movies and TV with like minded people.  How about crafting projects, knitting or crochet?  Would you like to have a Family style dinners where the conversation …

Are you a creative writer looking for feedback on your work and willing to help others improve their own stories? I recently moved to the Mission area and am finding it a long drive back to the Vancouver area to meet with my writing groups, so I'm starting one closer to home. The group meets every two weeks, at members' places or local (Mission) venues, to workshop our writing. All types of creative writing (fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and genre) are included. You don't necessarily nee …

Building on the success of Presentation Excellence Group, Possibilities is a group to help people identify and move forward with personal, creative, and career goals.  Meet or re-connect with other writers, artists and professionals and explore your strengths, values, and goals through fun and interactive writing and speaking activities.  Share your dreams and aspirations in a supportive environment, and gain tips and strategies for overcoming obstacles like fear, avoidance, and writers block.  …

This group is for all of us who have a desire to write but never seem to find the time to do it regularly. It is open to all levels and is for those who would like to do more writing on a set date & time each week. It doesn't matter what type of writing you are doing, or if you have never written before.  Just arrive with a notebook and pen (or laptop) and write. We usually begin by chatting for a number of minutes and getting to know each other though talking is not required. After a while most …

If you are interested in reading serious contemporary literature that includes prize winners as well as well reviewed fiction and non-fiction, let's get together for thoughtful, indepth conversations so we can share our insights and ideas, and deepen our thinking and appreciation. I am looking for readers in the Vancouver area that can commit to meeting one afternoon or an evening once a month, and willing to assist with sharing the facilitation of the meetings. We can rotate meetings at our hom …

This group meets every month to discuss a Fantasy book.  Each month we have a theme or subgenre, and make suggestions for books under that theme in a discussion thread.  Then we vote in a poll to determine the specific book we will read for the meeting.  The book is determined about a month in advance of the meeting. If you like reading a variety of Fantasy books, and are in the Coquitlam area, we'd be happy to have you join us!

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved. This group is meant to foster mutual support of participants in the Nanaimo, BC …

Women in Words is a group that shares their writing in hopes of receiving helpful advice on how best to improve. We will bring our writing to each meeting, read them to each other and then receive some great advice on how to hone our writing to target our audience. Women in Words welcomes any level of writer who has an interest in improving her writing skills. There will be light refreshments and coffee/tea available.

William Alan Shatner is 79 years old as of March 22, 2010, and has had a long wonderful career as an actor. But how many of his movies can you name outside of Star Trek and the cameo appearances? If you knew the full list of his major works, you'd be very surprised indeed. This group will bring together fans of the Shatner and we will watch his old forgotten movies (some of which are only in black and white) from back in the days before Star Trek, when he was not the square-jawed Captain of the …

This is the place where B movies are made. Do you love to write or shoot or act or sing or dance or capture sound or do make up or do hair or create costumes or make music or be a part of creating something from nothing? If you said yes to any of these things then the B Movie Factory family would love to have you. The movies are always crap but the fun is making the movie. Our motto is "If you are not having fun, don't do it". Oh ya, we do have fun. A little to much some times. As you can see fr …

A dynamic book club that meets monthly to discuss uplifting novels

Join the IndigoReads Book Club at Chapters Robson! Every month we’ll select a different book and we invite you to read it and meet with us on the first Thursday of the month to discuss it. We look forward to making new friends who share our passion for reading and enjoying an evening of stimulating conversation.

A meeting in New Westminster every second Wednesday from 7-10 PM effective Sept 5, 2012 with stories ready for critiquing by a valiant band of fellow, aspiring scribes. The mission is to get us writers out of our chairs (or into our chairs, rather) and put pen to paper. And moreover, to get our work primed and ready for publication. Plenty of great writers knew each other from their own writers' groups (Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs anyone?) and there is a reason why they became great. Because …

What is Steampunk? Steampunk simply embodies a time and a place. The time... the late 19th century, the place... a steam powered world, where air travel by fantastical airships and submarines is as common as traveling by car, train, or boat It's a place where national boundaries and interests are vastly different than our own version of history, where the elegant and refined are as likely to get pulled into a grand adventure, as the workers, ruffians, and lower classes. The idea of space travel …

I couldn't find a book club in Maple Ridge so I thought I'd start my own. I have a bookshelf full of half read books and thought maybe if I had a little motivation, I could get those books read. If you are like me and like to read, and to discuss literature and to just sit around and drink coffee, I believe this group is for you.  We read a variety of genres, always trying something new.

The Story We Be: Memoir Reading and Writing Intensive Call for Applications Deadline May 15th The Story We Be is a 5-Week Memoir Reading and Writing Intensive that will run in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories, June-July, 2013. This Intensive will bring together an intergenerational group of 12 community members, artists from a diversity of disciplines, and community organizers, 18 years and older, to develop and strengthen skills in craft in cross-genre memoir writing, and performative storyt …

Are you looking for a writersthINK group, where writers want to eagerly struggle to reason and interpret more than to publish? Are you looking for a writing group that presents and requires thought-provoking questions to inspire writing, tolerates and celebrates creative behaviors and thoughts, and that requires and builds relationships within their writing community? If so, then join us for the first of 8 evenings of writersthINK, where we will read, listen, discuss, reflectively pause, and …