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Call for committee members

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Deadline to express interest in joining one of WFNS’s 2026/27 Board committees. Click for details.

Vernon Oickle launches Eleven Crows for Good Health

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The crows who guard Liverpool, Nova Scotia sense danger, but they can’t spot the source. The threat seems to come from everywhere and nowhere. They need help from Alex, their chosen one, before things get out of hand. Other players are active, some to counter an evil and some to extend it. Join us for […]

WFNS Annual General Meeting (virtual)

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Info session & Board elections. Advanced registration required. Click for details.

Locally Authored Book Club Exchange

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Our next book club meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 17th, from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm with guest author Vicki Grant and her new release, These Are The Fireworks. Our book club is unique. Please read the following: • Each participant will bring a locally authored or published novel they have recently read and […]

Literary Trivia (Halifax)

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Register in teams of up to four ($20/PWYC | ages 19+)

Jane Doucet launches Blood Typed

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Join Jane Doucet on June 20 as she launches her first murder mystery, Blood Typed, in Room 301 at Halifax Central Library from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Author Janice Landry will conduct a short Q&A with Jane, then audience members can help themselves to a piece of celebratory cake. Joe Tinney from Open Book […]

Will Cooper signs Lotus

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Join author Will Cooper for the launch of his new novel, Lotus. Set in a mysterious future where humanity has transcended the self, Lotus is a philosophical sci-fi story about AI, identity, love, and the possibility of technologically facilitated enlightenment. The event will include a short reading, a conversation about the ideas behind the book, […]

Will Cooper signs Lotus

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Join Nova Scotia author Will Cooper at Indigo Halifax for a signing of his new novel, Lotus, on Saturday, June 21, from 2:00–4:00 PM. Set in a mysterious future where humanity has transcended the self, Lotus is a philosophical sci-fi story about AI, identity, love, and the possibility of technologically facilitated enlightenment. Stop by to […]

Flexing Your Creative Muscles (Halifax)

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Adult summer day camp. Click for details.
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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