Hello Everyone! This note is to let you know about some updates and changes happening to this group and on this board. First off the news is that the leadership is changing...as our 'old' leaders gracefully settle into retirement a group of 'young' leaders are stepping in. We are excited about the new season of writing and as a group are dedicated to making this MeetUp group thrive. Our goals are to embrace and support Victoria's writers and we have already begun with our first Meet Up of the …

We are a warm and welcoming group of women who would like to begin writing prose or poetry, or already write regularly, have been published or are serious about their craft. We aim at stimulating conversation and inspiration to write and improve our writing. We share our works and support each other's efforts with editing and reviewing, skill building, doing writing exercises and discussing ideas. We meet twice a month in a quiet Recreation Hall, which has plenty of parking spots. We warmly invi …

Persons with ASD 16 + are warmly invited to a new UVic adult peer-support writing program for persons with ASD designed for persons with: Autism, Aspergers, PDD-NOS, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, and Ret.'s Syndrome. Our group is called "Authors with Autism" and its goal is to foster writing as a way of supporting autism culture through narrative works originating from the ASD perspective. Many have claimed that persons with autism have a unique way of experiencing the world and that unique …