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Art Larks! Creative Writing Workshop for Seniors

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Author and creative writing teacher Melissa Kuipers will be offering two FREE online creative writing workshops for seniors living in Nova Scotia in November! These workshops, hosted by Arts Health Antigonish!, will be fun and experimental. We’ll explore what it means to craft engaging scenes and short stories through writing prompts, opportunities to share (but no obligation), and take-home activities to inspire you after we leave our hour together.

This workshop is intended for:
– experienced and brand new writers
– people wanting to create fiction/made up stories
– individuals who want to share personal stories and short memoir pieces with their friends and family
– folks who want to hone their story-telling skills
– people looking to become more attentive to the world and people around them

Dates: November 2 and 20

Location: online

Supplies needed: computer, pen/pencil and a notebook

One-time registration for Art Larks!: https://forms.gle/DSomFKxX51aY1jbi9

Please reach out if you’d like to know more about it, or share with a senior you know living in Nova Scotia. Art Larks! offers a diverse series of fun and engaging arts workshops. Email seniors@artshealthantigonish.org for more information about these amazing workshops!

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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