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Wanda Campbell launches “Spring Theory”

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Acadia University Art Gallery
Location:
10 Highland Avenue, Beveridge Arts Centre, Wolfville. More info
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Member event

Wanda Campbell will launch her latest poetry collection, Spring Theory (Pottersfield Press) at the Acadia University Art Gallery in Wolfville on Thursday, September 18, at 7pm. The book travels from fall’s darkness to spring’s light with poems inspired by Alex Colville’s images of the Annapolis Valley, prose poem tributes to Canadian writers, and the lost sonnets of “Dementia Diary Down Under” that delve into the unpredictable experiences of aging relatives. Campbell has published five other poetry collections and a novel, Hat Girl. She teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Acadia.

Cash-only book table.

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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