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Blind Date with a Book Speed Dating Night

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Dartmouth Book Exchange
Location:
1187 Cole Harbour Road, Dartmouth. More info
Link:
https://dartmouthbookexchange.ca/events/
Calendar:
Member event

New York Times bestselling author Cathryn Fox has some of the best first lines in her novels. Our Blind Date books will use their first line(s) as their “pick-up” lines, so Cathryn will be here to tell us all about first lines: how she comes up with her first lines and their importance. She’ll also discuss her novel The Blurbs and the Bees, which has one of the best first lines. There will be giveaways, games, and lots of laughter. Everyone gets one of these never-seen-before, specially made, high-demand Blind Dates. Dress to impress. This is an adult event
A $10.50 pre-registration is required for this event to monitor numbers. You can either register at the store, or by phone with a credit card at 902-435-1207 or by etransfer at dbex1187@gmail.com.

The format of the night will be as follows:

  • Participants will be given 30 seconds to flip over the Blind Date in front of them, read the Blind Date’s pick-up line, and decide if they are interested and would like to take that date home with them. If they are interested they take it back with them to their seat and a new Blind Date with a Book replaces the one removed.
  • If they are not interested in that particular date they just flip it back over, for the next person in line and return to the end of the line.
  • This will continue until all participants have chosen their date for the night.
  • Once everyone has picked their date, they can then unwrap them if they wish. We encourage people to wait until everyone has selected their date before unwrapping. Pictures of the lucky matches will be encouraged.
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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