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Atlantic & Nova Scotia Book Awards Shortlists Celebration

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia
Location:
1113 Marginal Rd, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://atlanticbookawards.ca/
Calendar:
Community event

Join us as the shortlisted titles for the Atlantic Book Awards and the Nova Scotia Book Awards are revealed. Raise a toast to the nominated authors and find out about upcoming events of the Atlantic Book Awards Festival, May 29 to June 5.

Atlantic Book Awards include the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award, the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Literature (YA), the Atlantic Publishers Award for Best Published Book, and the Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction. Nova Scotia Book Awards include the Margaret and John Savage First Book Awards (Fiction & Nonfiction), the George Borden Writing for Change Award, the Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award, Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award, and the Dartmouth Fiction Award.

King’s Co-op Bookstore will be on site. Cash bar.

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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 and 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.

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 information, strategies, and skills that suit their career stage. 

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 you’re uncertain of your experience level with regard to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca