Join us Tuesday, November 25 at 7:00 pm Pacific for our a Writing Circle Spotlight featuring the Poetry Writers' Circle with readers Kelsey Andrews (group facilitator), Emma B, Kath Healing, Medwyn McConachy, KB Nelson, Bonnie Waterstone, and Zoe Ocean, hosted by Meaghan Hackinen
Register here (bcwriters.ca/events-for-writers) and a link will be sent to you. When it's time for the event, click on the link to join the live Zoom event. To find our more about the FBCW's online Writing Circles https://bcwriters.ca/circles. We look forward to seeing you there!
Digital Doors Open at 6:55 pm!
*This event will be recorded.
Kelsey Andrews writes mostly poetry. Her first collection, Big Sky Falling, came out with Ronsdale Press in 2021. She is proud to facilitate the Poetry Writers' Circle with the FBCW. She also offers all-level workshops in person and on zoom. Visit her at kelseyandrews.ca.
Emma B was born in Vancouver but took a ferry over to Victoria in her late twenties and never looked back. She is an acupuncturist by day and a beginner potter by night.
Kath Healing (they/them) is a queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent poet from the UK, now living on the unceded, unsurrendered lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking peoples (Victoria, BC). Their work traces how class, gender, and disability are archived in everyday artifacts, braiding eco-grief with queer survival and endurance. Winner of the 2025 Victoria Writers’ Society Poetry Contest, they have recent and forthcoming work in Plenitude, Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2), Garland, The Ekphrastic Review, JLRB Press, and elsewhere. They perform regularly at slam and open-mic events, blending tenderness, wit, and defiance into collective voice. Find Kath on Instagram and Bluesky @kathhealing, and on Facebook @thekathhealing.
Medwyn McConachy is a poet and fibre artist whose creative practice is inspired by connection to the living world and human impacts on the beings who share the lands she gratefully calls home, on unceded Quw’utsun territory settler named Salt Spring Island. Much of what lands on her page and in her fibre art is generated through her contemplative solitary walking practice in the forests surrounding her home.
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Bonnie Waterstone feels grateful and honoured to live and garden in Ch'kw'elhp (Gibsons) unceded Squamish lands on the Sunshine Coast. She stumbled back into writing poetry in her 70s after a variety of paying jobs anchored in reading, writing, language and literacy. Her poems these days often revive snippets of stories from her mixed and mottled past or sing of trees or laugh at the discoveries of aging.
Zoe Ocean lives by the ocean in qathet/Powell River where she can’t resist buying secondhand books even though her home is overflowing with them. She also enjoys growing flowers and vegetables in the summer and watching YouTube videos about astrology and art tutorials. She paints small abstract work in pastel, ink and paint with great enjoyment of colour and mark making.
Meaghan Hackinen (FBCW host): is a bike-obsessed bookworm on a lifelong hunt for exceptional cycling routes, both on and off the pavement. Her cross-continental bike race memoir, Shifting Gears, was released by NeWest Press in 2023 and is available in print, ebook, and audiobook. When she's not lost in the mountains or chasing the sunset, she probably has her nose tucked in a book. Find her online: meaghanhackinen.com.
