Events

Events listed below may include upcoming member-organized events as well as upcoming, recurring, and selected past WFNS-organized events. To book in-person or virtual WFNS space for your event, please use our Event Booking form.

Upcoming EVENTS

Scary Stories

Join horror writers Brittni Brinn, Elliott Gish, and Tiffany Morris on Wednesday, Oct 30 (7pm – 8:30pm), for Scary Stories at Sherriff Hall (Halifax). Details

Recurring EVENTS

CELEBRATION OF
EMERGING WRITERS

ANNUAL
PUBLIC READING

JAMPOLIS OPEN HOUSE

ANNUAL
PUBLIC READING

NOVA READS

OCCASIONAL
PUBLIC READING

SCARY STORIES

ANNUAL
PUBLIC STORYTELLING

SECRET ADMIRERS’ SOCIETY

OCCASIONAL
PUBLIC READING

WRITING RUMBLE

ANNUAL
FUNDRAISER

SELECTED PAST EVENTS & PROJECTS

POETRY IN MOTION

2019 – 2023

UNBOUND AUDIOBOOK SERIES

2021 – 2022

POSTCARD CONTEST

2020 – 2022

SECOND- & THIRD-WAVE
RELIEF FUNDS

2021

UNMUTE YOUR MIC

2021

1000 WORDS: AN EXHIBITION OF ILLUSTRATION

2019

GATHER ‘ROUND

2019

THE LEAGUE READS

2018 – 2019

EAST COAST LITERARY AWARDS

2012 – 2017

40th ANNIVERSARY SHORT PROGRAM

2016

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Recommended Experience Levels

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) recommends that participants in any given workshop 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. The “Recommended experience level” section of each workshop description refers to the following definitions used by WFNS.

  • 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, and writing for children and young adults) 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.

For “intensive” and “masterclass” creative writing 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