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Literary Events Calendar

This calendar includes WFNS program deadlines, workshops, and events, as well as events organized by WFNS members and by other NS literary & arts orgs, festivals, libraries, indie bookstores, etc.

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dartspeak Open Mic
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Sarah Emsley reads from "The Austens" at SMU Reading Series
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Just My Type (Halifax & Truro)
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Love Letter Writing Workshop
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Shannon Fay hosts Writing Game Night
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Galentine's Day Blind Date With a Book Speed Dating Night
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Listening to Ourselves (virtual) with Cory Lavender
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The Writer’s Guide to Tax Season (virtual) with Michelle Elrick
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Locally Authored Book Club Exchange
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Sal Sawler launches "Ellis on Guard"
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Vicki Grant launches "These Are The Fireworks"
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Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail hosts aviation storytime
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Novel Study led by Tricia Snell: 'The Wall,' Marlen Haushofer
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Rebecca Thomas Book Signing at Open Book Coffee
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Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail hosts aviation storytime
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Charles R. Saunders biography launch
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Shelf Indulgence book club (virtual) with Carol Moreira
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All-day
Sponsored Residencies at Jampolis Cottage
All-day
50 for 50 Contest #1
All-day
Oliver-Craig Black Writers' Retreat
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Dal Reads Author Reading with Elamin Abdelmahmoud
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All-day
Poet Laureate Mental Health Poem Project
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How to Be a Confident Writer & Get Rid of Self-Doubt
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Get Published! Webinar with Canadian Children’s Book Centre
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Open Heart Forgery Poetry Open Mic
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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