Writing Into 2023!

Sooke Writers’ Collective has been a part of the Sooke landscape since 2014 publishing annual print anthologies of stories, poetry and memoirs as well as two poetry chapbooks. From monthly meetings in the Sooke library to coping with the pandemic via various online tools, the Collective has continued to grow in membership.

Before there was the collective there was the Sooke Scribblers, active for several years. The group was founded by Shirley Skidmore and enjoyed many years of writing talk, feedback and friendship. To better identify us to the community, in terms of who we are and what we do, we changed our name to Sooke Writers’ Collective.

The collective is for writers in any genre and our intent is to provide community, support and writing practice for writers in the Sooke region (East Sooke, Sooke, Otter Point, and Shirley). We are also carrying on the long standing Scribblers’ tradition of hosting a writing contest for students of Edward Milne Community School and are making plans to expand the contest. One of the ways we raise money for the contest prizes and our online tools (Zoom and our private forum) is to create and sell an annual anthology of works by group members. To date there are nine print anthologies and the tenth is being planned for 2023.