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donalee Moulton reads from Cardinal

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• Listen to an excerpt from the book. • Test your knowledge of the paranormal. • Get a book personally signed.

SS Atlantic Kids Day

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Join us for stories, games, scavenger hunts, snacks, arts & crafts, and more! A FREE event for all ages at the SS Atlantic Heritage Centre in Terence Bay featuring local authors Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail (Children of the SS Atlantic) and Lynette Richards (Call Me Bill), who will be on hand to answer questions and sign books. […]

Christine Hartlin at Apple Harvest Market

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Wreath & Wire Coastal Markets is hosting the Apple Harvest Market in support of the Open Arms Support Centre. Christine Hartlin will be there with three children’s books.

Carol Bruneau signs The Little Way

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Carol will sign copies of her latest novel, The Little Way, just released by Nimbus Publishing/Vagrant Press.

Carol Bruneau signs The Little Way

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Carol Bruneau will sign copies of her new novel, The Little Way, as part of the Authors Showcase for the September “Anchor in Analogue” event program.

Release day cocktail party for Joanne Merriam's Aether and Ego

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Release day cocktail party! Come out in your sparkliest attire—bonus for steampunk, space fantasy and/or Regency togs—for a reading and bespoke cocktails. Books provided by King’s Co-op. Trident Booksellers & Cafe 1256 Hollis St, Halifax, NS Free & open to the public! Aether and Ego is a steampunk retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, […]

Connect to Elizabeth Bishop’s World through Drawing & Listening

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Elizabeth Bishop, world-renowned poet and writer, traveled extensively and lived in many places. Yet she never forgot or lost her connections to Great Village, where she spent part of her childhood. The people and world she knew there remained in her memory no matter where she went, and inspired and shaped her work throughout her […]

Joanne Merriam launches Aether and Ego

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The official book launch for Aether and Ego, a steampunk retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, with the addition of space travel, dogs, and accidental death. Books provided by Bookmark Halifax. Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, NS Free & open to the public. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the […]

Len Diepeveen launches When I Come Back We will Talk

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The launch of When I Come Back We Will Talk: My Father, the War, and Me. Book signing and reading and snacks.
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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