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Barbara Lounder’s “Corona Walker: Diadem” opening reception

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Location:
HERMES Art Gallery Cooperative 5682 North Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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http://www.hermeshfx.com/about
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All are welcome to this exhibition, taking place from March 14 – April 12, 2026 on Fridays to Sundays 12-6 (except Friday April 3 and Sunday April 5). There will be an opening reception and chapbook launch on Saturday March 14, 3pm and an artist’s talk Sunday April 12, 3pm. You can meet Barbara in the gallery each Saturday. There will be short readings at 3pm on those days.

Corona Walker was born in Dartmouth in 1870 and died there in 1889 at the age of 18. Her broken headstone in the Dartmouth Public Cemetery is the inspiration for an interdisciplinary walking project that Barbara Lounder began during the coronavirus 19 pandemic. Corona Walker’s life and death are a mystery; there is very little of to be found in official records and archives. Her life is left to our imaginations. In Diadem, Lounder brings together found objects, photographs and a poem to present an incomplete and speculative narrative about Corona Walker.

Diadem is accompanied by a limited-edition chapbook, Becoming Corona Walker, available for purchase at Hermes or through the artist. The chapbook features essays by Barbara Lounder and Robert Bean. It was designed and produced by Copy Shop Books & Studio in an edition of 100. ISBN 978-1-0699679-0-9. $20 CAD, and shipping.

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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