In 1995, the Victoria School of Writing planned its first session for the following summer.
Writing's a lonely business.
One small notice in the newspaper drew so many people that the School of Writing decided that the following year the Fair could stand alone. In succeeding years, beginning and emerging writers found that at the Fair they could make personal connections with the very people they needed to meet in order to move their writing projects forward. In 1997, the Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria announced an Arts Awareness Week in May, and the School jumped at the opportunity to make the Literary Info-Fair an event in that week. The Fair expanded to forty booths. For the next three years it was held in the hall at First United Church, Quadra and Balmoral.