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Sat
31

Open Heart Forgery Poetry Open Mic

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Join community poetry journal Open Heart Forgery at Halifax Central Library in the RBC Room (3rd floor) for an afternoon of poetry! You’re invited to bring your own poetry to share (max. 5 minutes at the mic per person), or simply come to listen and enjoy. Face masks are welcome but not required, and you […]
Sat
07

Love Letter Writing Workshop

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Join a relaxed letter writing workshop with open conversation about how letters can close the gaps between us and the various forms of love in our lives. Letter writing materials will be provided! Event is PWYC – just grab a drink and settle in!
Tue
10

Shannon Fay hosts Writing Game Night

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Join author Shannon Fay for a fun, laidback hour of writing exercises. Craft a story using a journaling game as the framework: Shannon will read off prompts and you write something in response, building a story one fictional journal entry at a time. This month’s game will be Princess with a Cursed Sword, a fantasy […]
Sun
22

Rebecca Thomas Book Signing at Open Book Coffee

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Come join Open Book Coffee’s Sunday Signing series and have a coffee with Rebecca Thomas. While you’re here, grab a personally autographed copy of some of Rebecca Thomas’ books, including I Place You Into The Fire, Sem’s Map, and I’m Finding My Talk.
Sat
28

Poet Laureate Mental Health Poem Project

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Looking for poems and very short stories by people who live/work in HRM that connect with mental health, mental illness, Madness and/or mental health care! For a legacy project of the HRM Poet Laureate (2024 – 2027), Anna Quon. Write to Anna at plmhpoemproject@gmail.com to receive the invitation letter and consent form. Submit by February […]
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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