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Meet Ada & Friends: Pet Project Kids’ Reading and Activities with Heidi Tattrie Rushton

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Venue:
Dartmouth Book Exchange
Location:
1187 Cole Harbour Road, Dartmouth. More info
Link:
https://dartmouthbookexchange.ca/events/
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For young writers & readers

Drop by Dartmouth Book Exchange for a reading from Heidi Tattrie Rushton’s new middle-grade novel, Pet Project, the long-anticipated sequel to Pet Tales, published by Nevermore Press. This drop-in event will feature paper fortune tellers, spot-the-difference activities, colouring sheets, and more.

Books will be available for purchase and for signing.

In her small town of Kentville, Nova Scotia, eleven-year-old Ada Boudreau has signed up for a youth changemaker contest. Her idea? Create a food bank for pets so families never have to choose between feeding themselves or their beloved animals. She thinks this could be her chance to make a difference, and maybe get a shot at the spotlight, too!

But when Zephyr, the new kid in town and a fellow contestant, starts outshining Ada at every turn, her big-hearted idea starts to feel small.

Between worries about her own empty cupboards, some big changes at home, and a string of suspicious contest mishaps, Ada’s life starts to feel like it’s spiralling out of control, and she begins to wonder what matters more—winning or helping others?

(Themes of food insecurity, family dynamics, helping others, social justice, and animal welfare.)

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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