Meetings

Regular meetings are usually held in-person and on Zoom, on the second Saturday of the month (unless otherwise noted) in January, March, April, May, June, September, October, and November. February is our annual Valentines luncheon and July is when we have our summer picnic. There are no meetings in August or December.  Directions for in-person meetings can be found here. Meetings typically consist of a two-hour workshop and may include a brief business meeting and, if needed, a lunch break.  Please see workshop descriptions below for times.

**Guests are welcome to attend one or two regular meetings before joining. Please e-mail us for more information.**

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*Please note, dates and/or times are subject to change based on workshop presenter’s availability.

August 15, 2026

VIRA Summer Picnic
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm

In case you missed the July picnic (or even if you didn’t!) please join us for another summer potluck picnic, this time in Victoria. We’ll be doing the always popular roundtable critique, so if you’re interested, please bring 1-2 double-spaced pages of your current work-in-progress for a friendly–and anonymous–discussion of your work. Please RSVP before the 15th.

 

September 12, 2026

Topic: TBD
Speaker: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: TBD

 

October 17, 2026

Topic: TBD
Speaker: TBD
Location: TBD
Time: TBD

 

November 14, 2026

Topic: The Invisible to the Reader Work
Speaker: Sarah Proulx Calfee
Location: UVic, Engineering & Computer Science Building, Room ECS660, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria and via Zoom
Time: TBD

 

December 2026

No Meeting