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Submit Event

To submit an event to our Literary Events Calendar, you must be a General Member of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) and must be logged into your member account. General Membership is open to anyone with an interest in creative writing.

Submitted events must be held in Nova Scotia, held very near to Nova Scotia (e.g., in Charlottetown or Moncton), or held virtually. Virtual events must be relevant to a Nova Scotian audience. 

When your event is successfully submitted for review, the below form will be replaced with a confirmation message and you will be sent a confirmation email. We will email you again when your event is published on the calendar.

When the below form is successfully submitted, it will be replaced with a confirmation message.

You cannot view this form unless you are logged in and hold a current General Membership or Associate Access. To request free Associate Access for your bookstore, library, or literary organization, please email contact@writers.ns.ca.
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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