Sooke Types

Sooke TypesWe celebrated the physical manifestation of our third anthology Sooke Types at the Reading Room Cafe on May 19th. The kick off was led by award winning poet Wendy Morton reading her poem “Equinox” from the anthology. Members Linda Green Abraham, Jenny Boklaschuk, dl clay, Tatjana Darling, AY Dorsey, Doni Eve, Rene Low, Paulina Pallot and newest member (a half hour old) Barry Whiting read from works in progress or anthology pieces.

The anthology is a combination of writing by members and the winning entries to our annual EMCS Student Writing Contest.  For the last three years the winners have been published in our anthology and receive cash prizes.

This year’s winners:

Poetry: Julia Hensley
Junior Fiction: 1st place – Michael Ross
Junior Fiction: 2nd place – Dawson deWeerd
Senior Fiction: 1st place – Makayla Scharf
Senior Fiction: 2nd place – Nick Gakena

More details on the launch events here

Look for our anthology Sooke Types – in stores soon!

Our Mission

To provide support, connection, inspiration and encouragement to writers* at all levels of development in the Sooke region through membership services which include monthly meetings and community outreach in the form of student writing contests, workshops and readings.

*please note this group is for adults

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SWC has a virtual spot for members to continue to connect, learn, share, give feedback and support at sookewriters.ca.  An annual membership gives you access to the forum, Zoom meetings, member gatherings & workshops as well as a spot in our annual anthology.

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