About Us – Canadian Authors National Capital Region

We are the local branch of a national organization. We support and encourage writers in Ottawa, Gatineau, and the surrounding area.

Membership is coordinated through our head office in Toronto, Ontario.

CAA National

The National Capital Region Branch is led by a volunteer committee.

Arlene Smith, President

Sherrill Wark, Treasurer

Christine Beelen, Membership Coordinator

Adrienne Stevenson, Program Coordinator

Gill Foss, Branch Historian

Robynne Eagan, Member

Beverly Boutilier, Member

Want to help?

Whether you have only 15 minutes each month or huge blocks of free time, we have plenty for you to do—from bits-and-pieces to mega-projects. Take a look at our tasks and choose any one according to your availability.

Take digital photographs at meetings and workshops.
Help us maintain Facebook and Twitter.
Distribute our email information.
Lead a writing circle in your area.
Help us with publicity through libraries, bookstores, learning institutions and media

Contact CAA-NCR

We meet via Zoom to discuss an aspect of writing to focus on for that session. Perhaps it's adding specific detail, or improving dialogue, or working with voice or point of view. We then write "together" (with our without cameras on). We can respond to a prompt or apply the concept to our works in progress. It could be fiction, non-fiction or poetry. We then gather again as a group to discuss the experience.

Mondays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. via Zoom

October 17: Adding specific, concrete details
November 21: Working with dialogue
January 30: Serving the story
February 27: Filtering, adverbs and goal setting
March 27: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
May 1: Voice
May 29: A microfiction challenge