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Book Event Space

Bookable literary event space is available to General Members of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS). General Membership is open to anyone with an interest in creative writing.

There is no fee for General Members to book event space, but please note that WFNS staff are not available to co-organize, speak at, or otherwise deliver events on behalf of members. 

To request a booking: 

  • Email WFNS’s Executive Director, Oriana Duinker (director@writers.ns.ca), with your selected space, your preferred date and time, and at least one alternative date.
  • If you require use of WFNS’s projector and pull-up screen in the CFNS Atrium or the WFNS Office, include that in your booking request.

Once your booking is confirmed: 

  • If your event is in-person, you must pick up a key from the WFNS office during business hours, which you’ll leave in the WFNS Office as you lock up after your event.
  • If your event is open to the public, submit event info to our Literary Events Calendar (see Submit Event).

All in-person spaces are located at 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, where WFNS shares facilities with other members of the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia (CFNS).

  • 1113 Marginal Road is a physically accessible building with all-gender washrooms (including one wheelchair-accessible all-gender washroom).
  • Attendees will be required to enter through the WFNS Office’s exterior door. An A-frame WFNS sign and a map to our exterior door are available as wayfinding aids.

CFNS Atrium

Best for readings and other public events

  • Features: skylights; simple kitchen (full fridge & freezer, microwave, sink, and high counter)
  • Capacity: 24 seated at workshop tables; 45 seated theatre-style; 100 standing
  • General availability: only outside of business hours (Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm)
  • Physically accessible

CFNS Boardroom

Best for larger, more formal, or hybrid (in-person/virtual) workshops and meetings

  • Features: smart screen; whiteboard; kitchenette (mini-fridge, microwave, and counter)
  • Capacity: 13 seated at conference table
  • General availability: during and outside business hours
  • Not physically accessible (up a flight of stairs)

WFNS Office

Best for smaller, more casual workshops and meetings

  • Features: vintage chaise; smell of books; aura of productivity
  • Capacity: 6 seated in default configuration; 10 seated with rearrangement
  • General availability: only outside of business hours (Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm)
  • Physically accessible

WFNS Zoom

Best for virtual meetings and events

  • Features: all non-host Zoom features (e.g., screen-sharing)
  • Capacity: 100 participants
  • General availability: during and outside business hours
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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 and 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.

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 information, strategies, and skills that suit their career stage. 

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