Writing community through shared experience in writing circles can be a tremendous boon in producing and refining work. Below we list a number of writing circles loosely associated with the WCDR.

Click on the name of the writing circle (alphabetical) for more information:

Brooklin Poetry Society
Brooklin, Ontario – Remember When Tea House
Monthly, 11:00 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Children’s Writer’s Circle
Colonial Retirement Residence, Whitby, Ontario
1st Wednesday of each month, 7:00 p.m.

Christians Who Write
J.P.Fitzpatrick’s back room, Whitby
The second Saturday of every month except August – 11:00 to 12:00 approx.

Critical Ms.
Whitby Central Library
Every other Tuesday

Durham Poets’ Combine
Port Perry – Scugog Memorial Public Library
First Wednesday of every month

Durham Write On
Pickering Recreation Centre
Every second Tuesday evening from 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Fiction Writers Group
Whitby
3rd Tuesday of each month

Ink Well
Clarington Public Library, Bowmanville Branch, Bowmanville
Monthly

The Markam Village Writers’ Circle
Markham Village Library
The first Wednesday of every month, from 7:pm to 9:pm

Newmarket Freeflow Writers
Taylor Funeral Home on Davis Drive
Every second and forth Tuesday of the month from 7-9 (excepting July and August)

Northword Edition
Uxbridge Library
Every other Tuesday, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Oak Tree Writers’ Circle
An Online Group
for more information contact: Janice Wristen

The Richard Ferrier Writers Circle
Pickering Public Library – 2nd floor auditorium
The third Tuesday of every month

Scribes of Uxbridge
Scribes Room in the Uxbridge Town Hall,
the second and fourth Friday of each month

WIP – Works in Progress
Member’s homes in Durham Region
Once a month

The Wordsmiths of Ajax/Pickering
Pickering, near Whites Rd. and Hwy. 401
The third Wednesday of every month from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

The Writers’ Circle of Quinte West
The Quinte West Library Main Branch in downtown Trenton
Every third Saturday from 10 a.m. -12 noon

WIHW – Writing is Hard Work Writing Circle
Pickering Central Library
Every second Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.

For an article on how one group started and maintained their writing circle, please click here: Life Writers Ink: A Fledgling Writers Group Spreads Its Wings