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Connect to Elizabeth Bishop’s World through Drawing & Listening

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Elizabeth Bishop House
Location:
8740 Highway 2, Great Village. More info
Calendar:
Community event, Member-organized event

Elizabeth Bishop, world-renowned poet and writer, traveled extensively and lived in many places. Yet she never forgot or lost her connections to Great Village, where she spent part of her childhood. The people and world she knew there remained in her memory no matter where she went, and inspired and shaped her work throughout her life.

We invite you to come to Elizabeth Bishop’s childhood home to learn more about her childhood in Great Village and its connections to both her written work and visual art.

Facilitated by:
Rita Wilson ~ Poet and Writer
Rosaria Campbell ~ Poet, Writer, Board Member EBNS
Emma FitzGerald ~ Writer and Illustrator

Cost: $25 (pay at registration on day of; cash only; registration opens 12:30pm)

Reserve your spot: email rosaria.campbell@hotmail.com

Space is limited to 10 participants so reserve early!

Sponsored by the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia

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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