Community event

The Winter Writing Weekend, presented by AfterWords Literary Festival, is a series of virtual workshops, craft talks, Q&As and guided writing sessions designed to deepen your writing practice and help you connect with your community during these cold winter days. We’ll talk creativity and productivity with the editors of Bad Artist—Gillian Turnbull, Nellwyn Lampert, Pamela Oakley, and Christian Smith. The amazing Zoe Whittall—novelist, poet, screenwriter and more—delivers our keynote address. Joshua Whitehead presents a craft talk on epistemologies and intertextuality in creative writing. Plus, workshops for writers at all levels with Danny Ramadan, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Francesca Ekwuyasi, and Zoe Whittall. There are also opportunities to write together in short guided sessions with prompts offered by Stephanie Domet, and a final session for checking in and thinking about ways to take The Winter Writing Weekend’s wealth into the rest of your writing life.

Find more details, and register for sessions, at the link above.

Author of My Father Came From Italy and the sequel Summers in Supino: Becoming Italian, as well as the novel Privacy is a Foreign Word, Maria Coletta McLean has received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for her contribution to the Canadian literary landscape in 2022. This talk discusses the author’s journey as a writer, from the university years as a ‘mature student’ to travelling to Italy for the first time, and from writing the memoir My Father Came From Italy to being a consultant for the adaptation of this book into a movie.

This talk takes place in McCain room 1170.

Presented by the Italian Studies Program at Dalhousie University.

You are cordially invited to the King’s MFA Book Club, an event that celebrates books written by graduates and faculty members of the University of King’s College’s MFA Program.

This month, we will be discussing Captain Solitude, by R.C. Shaw.

Come chat about the book, have some coffee, and meet the author!

In partnership with the University of King’s College’s MFA Program

Read by the Sea is excited to welcome poet and author Lorri Neilsen Glenn to lead our community of writers in an engaging workshop!

Lorri’s workshop is “Small Stories: A Prose and Poetry Workshop”. This session is open to all writers, from novice to seasoned. In this workshop we will mine magic from the small — we will create prose and poetry out of fleeting moments, glimpses, found objects, photographs, trinkets, curiosities, and more. Bring a memory, a small item, a notebook, and a willingness to play.

Please register for this event by emailing rjreadbythesea@gmail.com

This event is supported by Arts Nova Scotia, the Access Copyright Foundation, the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, and the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library.

Books on the Breeze is a celebration of the past 25 years of literary programming from Read by the Sea. We’re welcoming back authors who have wowed our audiences in past festivals. Next up in the series: Lorri Neilsen Glenn!

In this free event that is open to all, Lorri will be reading from her latest book, The Old Moon in Her Arms (Nimbus, 2024) and answering questions about her work.

This event is supported by Arts Nova Scotia, the Access Copyright Foundation, the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, and the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library.