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Digital ballot
for election of candidates to the Board of Directors
for the 2026/2027 governance year

Voting will be opened only during the 2026 Annual General Meeting, held on June 15, 2026. Only General Members in attendance of this 2026 Annual General Meeting may vote. No proxy votes are permitted.

Click below to view written candidacy statements.

Continuing Directors
and Candidates for
2026/2027 Board

This election will fill the eight vacant seats on the Board of Directors. Each ballot may support up to eight candidates.

If you experience a ballot malfunction during the voting period, please immediately email your candidate selection(s) to contact@writers.ns.ca from the email address used to register for the AGM.

When voting is open, the ballot will appear below this line.

Only General Members in attendance of the 2026 Annual General Meeting may vote. No proxy votes are permitted.
Enter above the email address with which you registered for the 2026 Annual General Meeting. This email address will be checked against the list of AGM attendees.

Digital ballots will be retained for one week after the Annual General Meeting and will then be deleted.
In general, the eight (8) candidates receiving the highest number of votes across all submitted ballots will be elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the 2026/2027 governance year.

However, WFNS governance policy limits the number of Directors who may be General Members only (i.e., and not also Writers' Council members) in any governance year. Of the eight candidates newly elected and re-elected this year, no more than three (3) may be General Members only.
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Experience Levels

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) uses the following terms to describe writers’ experience levels:

  • New writers: those with less than two years’ creative writing experience and/or no short-form publications (e.g., short stories, personal essays, or poems in literary magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks).
  • Emerging writers: those with more than two years’ creative writing experience and/or numerous short-form publications.
  • Early-career authors: those with 1 or 2 book-length publications or the equivalent in book-length and short-form publications.
  • Established authors: those with 3 or 4 book-length publications.
  • Professional authors: those with 5 or more book-length publications.

Please keep in mind that each form of creative writing (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children, writing for young adults, and others) provides you with a unique set of experiences and skills, so you might consider yourself an ‘established author’ in one form but a ‘new writer’ in another.

Occasionally, WFNS uses the phrase “emerging and established writers/authors” to mean ‘writers and authors of all experience levels.’

The “Recommended experience level” section of each workshop description refers to the above definitions. A workshop’s participants should usually have similar levels of creative writing and / or publication experience. This ensures that each participant gets value from the workshop⁠ and is presented with info, strategies, and skills that suit their experience. 

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

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 uncertain about your experience level with respect to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca