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902 423 8116
902 422 0881 (fax)

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Monday – Friday
10 am – 3 pm

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WFNS
1113 Marginal Road
Halifax, NS
B3H 4P7

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WFNS staff members administer and promote all programs and services through a mutually supportive & collaborative team approach. However, individual staff members lead the key areas outlined below. Please contact a specific staff member when possible. If you’re unsure who to contact, our Program Manager (Membership Services) can direct your inquiry.

Andy Verboom

Program Manager
(Membership Services)

  • Ellemeno Visual Literature Prize
  • General Membership (accounts; Annual Membership Subscription; website and technical assistance)
  • Jampolis Cottage Residency Program
  • Members-only programs & resources (Coffee Chats; Manuscript Review Program; Subtext member newsletter)
  • Public resources
  • Workshops for creative writing and professional development

Linda Hudson

Program Manager
(Arts Education)

  • Juried programs & awards (MacLeod Mentorships; Book Awards; Emerging Writers Prizes; Nova Writes)
  • Youth programming (Writers In The Schools; Creative Writing Day Camps)

Oriana Duinker

Executive Director

  • Author Spotlights
  • Fund & endowment development, partnerships, and investments
  • Media inquiries
  • Social media
  • Special events & writers’ panels
  • Writers’ Council Membership

1113 Marginal Road

Halifax, NS B3H 4P7

902 423 8116

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The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia is based in Kjipuktuk, in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship,” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties do not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognize Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and establish the rules for an ongoing relationship between nations.

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Recommended Experience Levels

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) recommends that each workshop’s participants share a level or range of writing / publication experience. This is to ensure that each participant gets value from the workshop⁠ and is presented with information, strategies, and skills that suit their current writing priorities.

To this end, the “Recommended experience level” section of each workshop description refers to the following definitions developed by WFNS:

  • New writers: those with no professional publications (yet!) or a few short professional publications (i.e., poems, stories, or essays in literary magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks).
  • Emerging writers: those with numerous professional publications and/or one book-length publication.
  • Established writers/authors: those with two book-length publications or the equivalent in book-length and short publications.
  • Professional authors: those with more than two book-length publications.

For “intensive” and “masterclass” creative writing workshops, which provide more opportunities for participant-to-participant feedback, the recommended experience level should be followed.

For all other workshops, the recommended experience level is just that—a recommendation—and we encourage potential participants to follow their own judgment when registering.

If you’re uncertain of your experience level with regard to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca