Emerging Writers Prizes
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Submission deadline for WFNS’s annual prizes recognizing barriers to literary creation.
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Events
Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program
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Application deadline for WFNS’s annual mentorship program.
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Latte Lit Open Mic
Come share your works in progress with fellow writers in a safe and welcoming space on the first Friday of every month.
Feel free to come by for a drink and to just listen to other writers read, too.
Each reader is allotted up to 7-10 minutes of reading time, depending on turnout.
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Shelley Thompson signs Winter Sky
Come join our Sunday Signing series and have a coffee with Shelley Thompson.
While you’re here, grab a personally autographed copy of Thompson’s newest book, Winter Sky: Stories for the Season (and her previous book, Roar).
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Latte Lit Open Mic
Come share your works in progress with fellow writers in a safe and welcoming space on the first Friday of every month.
Feel free to come by for a drink and to just listen to other writers read, too.
Each reader is allotted up to 7-10 minutes of reading time, depending on turnout.
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Making the Everyday Magical / Making the Magical Everyday (Yarmouth) with Julian Mortimer Smith
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2-week Yarmouth workshop begins.
Steps to Self-Publishing
Emma Května is taking us through the steps needed to self-publish.
Emma Května is a writer, poet and author. Her work has appeared in Filling Station, Bell Press, and Planisphere Quarterly. She is a self-published author and has helped others through the process during her time with FriesenPress.
Please call 902-752-5181 or email trenton@parl.ns.ca to register as seats are limited.
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MFA Author Talks: Emma Kuzmyk
BMO Room
Join host Gillian Turnbull, Director of Writing & Publishing, in conversation with Emma Kuzmyk, editor of This Wasn’t on the Syllabus.
This Wasn’t on the Syllabus: Stories from the Front Lines of Campus Activism Against Sexualized Violence is both a record and an act of protest, progress, and survival located within Canada’s post-secondary landscape. The collection features personal accounts which articulate not only the prevalence of sexualized violence on campus, but how these acts inspire students to activism. The book is a call to value and prioritize the voices of student activists, who are often among those most impacted by sexualized violence, and who are key participants in driving change.
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Who-dunnit? afternoon with Anne Emery & donalee Moulton
Join us for a wordy Who-dunnit? afternoon with Anne Emery & donalee Moulton.
Anne Emery (Collins-Burke Mysteries) won the 2019 Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Crime Novel for Though the Heavens Fall. In 2023, Fenian Street was a finalist for the Award of Excellence for Best Traditional Mystery. She won the 2007 Award for Best First Crime Novel for Sign of the Cross. (The CWC’s awards were formerly called the Arthur Ellis Awards.) She also won a Silver Medal in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards (an international competition) and the 2011 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, both for Children in the Morning.
donalee Moulton is a professional writer and freelance journalist from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her byline has appeared in over 100 publications across North America, including Canadian Business, Chatelaine, Equinox, Ford Times, Maclean’s, and The Globe and Mail. Her most recent mystery novel, Melt, is the second in the Lotus Detective Agency series. It’s about what happens when three yogis with a penchant for solving crime are asked to help a 17-year-old boy who is facing life in prison for a crime he did not commit. The first in the series, Bind, takes us back to where it all started. When the yogis first joined forces with two cops to discover who stole a costly watch from a local gym.
Preregistration is required to monitor our numbers. You can register by purchasing a $10.00 gift certificate. This can be done in-person, by credit card by phone at 902-435-1207, or by e-transfer to dbex1187@gmail.com.
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Historical fiction conversation with Sarah Emsley and Jill MacLean
“Bringing the Past to Life through Historical Fiction”
Readers of historical fiction often ask how much of the story is true and how much is invented. Historical novelists Jill MacLean (author of The Arrows of Fealty) and Sarah Emsley (author of The Austens) will talk about their approaches to bringing the past to life through fiction and they will invite audience participation.
The Austens brings to life the story of Jane Austen’s friendship with her sister-in-law Fanny Austen, who lived for a while in Nova Scotia with her naval captain husband during the years when Jane was writing Pride and Prejudice and other novels that would eventually make her famous.
The Arrows of Fealty: Haukyn is a serf who owes fealty to the lord of the manor, yet who craves adventure. Warfare in France shows him how armour-clad knights can be brought as low as any serf. His restless spirit untamed, he incites his village to rebel against unjust taxation, and when England’s southern counties march in revolt on London, he witnesses the king grant freedom to every serf in the country. Unimaginable freedom. A freedom that will bring consequences.
Bookmark will be on hand selling copies of both novels.
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