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Writing Workshops: Writing from your life

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Two workshops, Oct 8 & 15, 6-7:30pm, at Second Story Women’s Centre in Lunenburg Writing as a Tool for Navigating Change (Oct 8) Writing Your Life (Oct 15) This workshop welcomes anyone who wants to make time for their own writing, whether prose or poetry, and whether just starting or more experienced. This time offers […]

Upon a Wishing Moon: Book launch with Elder Dorene Bernard

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Stories, poems, and images by members of the Governing and Survivors Circle of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Elder Dorene Bernard author of the stories “Water Teachings” and “Water Carrier” in conversation with Michelle Peters.

Darren Greer launches The Range Rules

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Award-winning author Darren Greer is back in Halifax and joining us to discuss his new book, The Range Rules! When Ryan and Shawn Sullivan’s socially ambitious father enrolls them in the prestigious Novato Towne School for Boys, the brothers unwittingly uncover the strange legacy of Charles Steven Kaye, a student who, expelled two decades prior […]

Poetry at the Trident

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Join three Canadian poets – from Toronto, Ottawa, and Halifax – for readings from their recently released collections. All are welcome. Books for sale by King’s Co-op Bookstore. Lisa Richter is a Toronto-based poet, writer, and educator. She is the author of two previous poetry collections, including Nautilus and Bone, winner of the Canadian Jewish […]

Movie: Copper Woman Screening with Dr. Afua Cooper

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Venue room: Paul O’Regan Hall Please join us for a special screening of Copper Woman, a stunning visual, oral, and aural celebration of the life and work of Dub poet Afua Cooper, who lives and works in Canada and helped launch the dub movement. Filmed in Toronto’s Little Jamaica, the film illustrates the aesthetic of […]

Nancy Drew Cozy Mystery Tea

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On Thursday, October 15th, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm, we will be hosting a Nancy Drew Cozy Mystery Tea with Special Guests: Jane Doucet, Blood Typed; Tom Ryan, Treasure Hunter’s/ We had a Hunch; and Barbara Emodi, Gasper’s Cove Series. We will be serving The Secret of the Old Clock Tea by NovelTea in […]

Woozles' Birthday Party

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Join us for Woozles’ 48th Birthday! Come enjoy music, cookies, Curious George, and more!

Conversations in Trust Halifax: Canadian Authors Make Sense of Our World

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Join prominent Canadian writers and leaders in the arts, business, and society for a national conversation on connection. Canadian writers create the connective tissue that bonds us — their insights inform our thinking on the issues that shape culture and their voices represent us to the world abroad. Authors tell stories of who we are […]

Stephen Kimber launches Traitor's Game

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Returning to the world of his non-fiction account Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War, award-winning journalist Stephen Kimber’s Traitor’s Game is a propulsive, clever, and atmospheric work of noir fiction, and the first in an enthralling, character-driven World War II noir detective mysteries set in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is the summer of […]
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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