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Flexing Your Creative Muscles (Halifax)

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Adult summer day camp. Click for details.

French and Acadians in 18th-Century Nova Scotia: Upheaval and Beyond

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This fast-moving, well-illustrated presentation by A J B Johnston concerns the fascinating history of Louisbourg, Grand-Pré, and the dramatic upheaval that took place in the Maritimes during the 1750s. Those far-reaching and dramatic events shaped our region’s history going forward.

In Conversation with Kate Scarth and Sarah Emsley

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Bookmark is excited to be launching Kate Scarth’s book Romantic Suburbs: Imagining Home in Greater London on Friday, June 26th at 4:30 pm in Room 243 of the Don and Marion McDougall Hall at the University of Prince Edward Island. Kate will be in conversation with Sarah Emsley, author of The Austens. This event is […]

Open Heart Forgery poetry open mic

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Join community poetry journal Open Heart Forgery at Halifax Central Library in the RBC Room (3rd floor) for an afternoon of poetry! You’re invited to bring your own poetry to share (max. 5 minutes at the mic per person), or simply come to listen and enjoy. Face masks are welcome but not required, and you […]

Lori Weber on We Walked Him to the Door: My Husband's Death by MAID

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Lori Weber will be interviewed about her prize-winning memoir, We Walked Him to the Door: My Husband’s Death by MAID, by fellow memoirist Donna Nebenzahl.

Sunday Signing with Jane Doucet

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Join Jane Doucet on June 28 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. for a Sunday Signing event at Open Book Coffee (3660 Strawberry Hill Street in Halifax).

Latte Lit Open Mic

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Join us at Open Book Coffee (3660 Strawberry Hill St.) on the first Friday of every month for a writers’ open mic – a chance to share works in progress with fellow authors in a welcoming setting. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and readings start at 7 p.m.

Shannon Fay hosts Writing Game Night

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Let’s Play a Writing Game: Tavern at the End of the World Join author Shannon Fay for a fun, laidback hour of writing exercises. Craft a story using a journaling game as the framework: Shannon will read off prompts and you write something in response, building a story one fictional journal entry at a time. […]

Read By The Sea Literary Festival 2026

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Dream of a sunny day, relaxing in a lawn chair, a cool drink in your hand, listening to Canada’s finest authors reading to YOU! That’s Read by the Sea Summer Literary Festival on the North Shore of Nova Scotia. In 2000, a small group of women from Nova Scotia’s North Shore established Read by the […]
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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