Michael Grass House 

The following is a list of independent, community-based writers groups in Canada. If you have a group you'd like to add, please email with the subject line Writers Groups of Canada, and provide the community, the group name, and some kind of contact information. If you'd like to edit or remove information from this list, please email. 

ONTARIO

Brockville

Writers Bloc (writersblocbrockville @ gmail.com)

Brockville Writers (Mary Anne Bowman 613-342-0630)

Writers Ink (brockvillewrites.wordpress.com/)

Belleville

Quinte Writers Guild (http://quinte.cioc.ca/record/VIQ2439)

Haliburton

Haliburton Highlands Writers and Editors Network (info@haliburtonwriters.ca)

Spencerville

Valley Writers Guild (mollimckribbon @ ripnet.com)

Sudbury

Sudbury Writers Guild (sudburywritersguild.com/)

Markham

Markham Village Writers (www.markhamvillagewriters.com)

Ajax

Writers' Community of Durham Region (http://wcdr.ca/wcdr/?page_id=2377)

North West

Northwestern Ontario Writers Workshop (admin @ nowwwriters.org)

Ottawa

Ottawa Independent Writers (www.oiw.ca/)

Hamilton

Hamilton Writers (hamiltonwriters @ yahoo.ca)

London

London Writers Society (mail @ londonwriters.ca)

Toronto

East End Writers Group (samcraw @ interlog.com)

Canadian Authors ASsociation (caat @ gmail.com)

ALBERTA

Writers Guild of Alberta (http://www.writersguild.ab.ca/Critiquing-Groups.asp)

Calgary

Calgary Writers Meetup (www.meetup.com/calgarywriters/)

Beamont

Beaumont Writers Group (egyatscoff @ shaw.ca) 

Edmonton

Edmonton Speculative Fiction Writers Group (Barb Galler-Smith)

Edmonton Teen Writing Group (WGA Office: 780-422-8174)

WGA Critiquing Group (780-435-0435)

Grande Prairie

Cygnets Writing Group (Contact the public library for details)

Red Deer

Writers' Ink (http://reddeerwritersink.workpress.com)

BRITISH COLUMBIA

Victoria

Victoria Creative Writing Group (www.meetup.com/Victoria-Writers/)

Vancouver

West End Writers' Club (http://wewriters.org/wp2/)

Vancouver Screenwriters Meetup Group (http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Screenwriters/)

North Shore Writers' Association (http://www.nswriters.bc.ca/)

Vancouver Independent Writers Group (http://www.meetup.com/The-Vancouver-Independent-Writers-Group/)

Kamloops

Interior Authors Group (http://interiorauthorsgroup.wordpress.com/ and http://www.interiorauthorsgroup.com)

Shuswap

Shuswap Writers' Group (http://shuswapwritersgroup.weebly.com/links.html)

Burnaby

Burnaby Writers' Society (http://www.bws.ca)

Quesnel

Quesnel Wordspinners (http://www.quesnelarts.ca/qwg.html)

Richmond

Richmond Writers Group (www.groups.msn.com/richmondwriters)     

SASKATCHEWAN

Saskatchewan Writers Guild (http://www.skwriter.com/links/genre-links)

Saskatoon

Saskatoon Writers Coop (http://www.writerscoop.org/writers-coop-chicken.html)

Regina

Regina Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Group (http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/ReginaSFFWriters) 

MANITOBA

Manitoba Writers Guild (http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/)

Winnipeg

Lake Winnipeg Writers Group (www.lakewinnipegwritersgroup.com/)

Secret Handshake (http://www.meetup.com/secrethandshake/)

QUEBEC

Quebec Writers Federation (http://www.qwf.org/)

Quebec 

Quebec Writers' Circle (http://www.writingroom.com/Groups/Quebec-Writers-Circle)

Montreal

Montreal Writers Meetup Group (http://www.meetup.com/Montreal-Writers/)

Montreal West island Writers Group (http://www.oocities.org/montreal_wiwg/)

JustWrite Montreal (chapmanjeffrey @ gmail.com)

NOVA SCOTIA

Writers Federation of Nova Scotia (http://www.writers.ns.ca/workshops.html)

Halifax

Teen Writers Group (contact the public library)

The Scribblers 

Sydney

Whitney Writer's Ink (http://whitneywritersinc.blogspot.ca/p/about-us.html)

Wolfville

BestWords (https://sites.google.com/site/bestwordwriters/)

NEW BRUNSWICK

Writers Federation of New Brunswick (www.umce.ca/wfnb)

Fredericton

Stepping Stones Writers Group (http://frederictonregionmuseum.wordpress.com/tag/stepping-stones-writers-group/)

Moncton

Moncton Writers Group (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moncton-Writers-Group/116075045168086)

Saint John

Saint John Writers' Group (http://www.sjfn.nb.ca/community_hall/S/SAINXXXW.html)

PEI

PEI Writers Guild (http://peiwritersguild.wordpress.com/)

NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR

Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador (http://wanl.ca/)

Newfoundland Writers' Guild (http://www.newfoundlandwritersguild.com)

ARCTIC

Yellowknife

Old Lady Hunting Aboriginal Writers Group (http://oldladyhunting.blogspot.ca/)