The Stittsville Creative Writing Group is a program of the Ottawa Public Library. The group meets every Thursday at the Stittsville branch for approximately an hour to read pieces they have written. Other OPL groups exist, often with diff erent models, however the SCWG has found its model has worked to the extent that we've been in "business" since the autumn of 2012. Also, despite increasing our membership levels, the OPL still has to maintain a waiting list. We are: poets, scholars, rouge scholars, authors, and audacious amateurs taking their first steps into group sharing and into the publishing world. There are those who mostly listen rather than write, those who write prolifically but only share with the group, and a broad spectrum in between. These are our stories.