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WFNS Calendar

All WFNS deadlines, workshops, and events

Booktoberfest

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://writers.ns.ca/programs/booktoberfest/
Calendar:
WFNS Events

Booktoberfest is our annual literary fair that celebrates Nova Scotian authors & publishers and the books they’ve published over the past year. It offers a place for authors & readers to meet; book sales & signings; and free readings & creative writing workshops.

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Crime Will Tell: A Celebration of Crime Writing

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/68963fd3639e1e9694a5854d
Calendar:
WFNS Events

Join us in Paul O’Regan Hall (floor 1) for Crime Will Tell, a celebration of crime writing of all kinds! From cozy mysteries, to true crime, to thrillers, there is something here for every fan of mystery, mayhem, and murder.

This year we will be hosting two panels:

  • A Crime Non-Fiction Panel, featuring moderator Kayla Hounsell and panelists Andrea Currie, Laura Churchill Duke, and John Elliott.
  • A Crime Fiction Panel, featuring moderator Jane Doucet and panelists Charlene Carr, C.S. Porter, and N.L. Blandford.

After the panel discussions, the audience will have a chance to mingle, chat with authors, and buy books. All attendees will receive a goodie bag with swag, as well as a chance to win a door prize!

In partnership with Crime Writers of Canada, Halifax Public Libraries, BMO, and Bookmark

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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