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Common Threads BIPOC Writers Circle

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Bus Stop Theatre Co-op
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2203 Gottingen St, Halifax. More info
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Workshops & retreats

Common Threads is a drop-in writers’ circle for Black, Indigenous, and other writers of colour who are looking for an empowering, supportive, and encouraging space to share stories that celebrate culture, identity, and lived experience. Whether you’re just beginning your writing journey or have been crafting stories for years, Common Threads offers a welcoming environment to connect, create, and be heard. Each session centres, collective growth, and the power of storytelling as a tool for self-expression, resistance, and healing.

Writers are encouraged to share their work in progress and offer constructive feedback to others.

The Bus Stop Theatre Co-op Narrative Program is organized by Andre Fenton (writerscirclecoord@thebusstoptheatre.org)

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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