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Booked for Murder: An Evening with Halifax Crime Writers

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/68c453ce023ff32800788959
Calendar:
Member event

Join us for “Booked for Murder,” an evening with some of the city’s top crime writers. Hear authors like Pam Callow and Anne Emery share the secrets behind their craft and their bestselling novels. Sue Slade of Dartmouth Book Exchange will be on hand with signed copies available for purchase.

Participating authors:

  • Pamela Callow, author of the international bestselling Kate Lange Thriller Series
  • Anne Emery, author of the Collins-Burke mystery series and winner of the 2019 Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Crime Novel for Though the Heavens Fall
  • Steven Laffoley, whose books include the crime novel Halifax Nocturne
  • Bretton Loney, author of the time-traveling murder mystery Unsettling Time
  • Carol Moreira, author of The Pet-Sit
  • Peter Moreira, author of The Haight Mystery Series
  • Anne Louise O’Connell, who has just published Deep Freeze, the second novel in her Deep Mysteries series
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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