Eve Smart

From Jan DeGrass's article in the Coast Reporter, Jan 11, 2013 1:00 AM, "Eve Smart was as a member of a writers' organization, the Writers' Forge, that met in Sechelt every month. Not content with this monthly prod to novice writers, Smart decided to organize a writing group in Gibsons in the early 1990s, and she asked a Vancouver Island college instructor to lead it. The teacher came once a month and stayed overnight in Smart's spare bedroom where Smart's dog, Donald, would snuggle with the guest, much to Smart's annoyance.

That writing group launched many Coast writers and exists today with two of the original members. Smart was working on a memoir of her service in the Air Force, which she later fictionalized into the story Naomi Goes to War."