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Creative Writer Cafes

Date:
Time:
-
Recurrence:
Weekly from
Venue:
Truro Library
Location:
754 Prince Street, Truro. More info
Link:
https://lauraaliese.com/creative-writers-cafes/
Calendar:
Member event

Want to get a taste of book coaching and meet like minded people who love talking books? Get professional feedback on your writing project from a book coach and have a lot of fun while you’re at it! All writing skill levels are welcome at Creative Writers Cafes.

The group book coaching sessions will focus on: (1) giving you professional feedback in our group and individual conversations, (2) providing access to the Author Accelerator blueprint workbooks that help you plan a creative work of any length or genre, and (3) setting up writing accountability that works for you.

Creative Writers Cafes run every Wednesday night in September and October at the Truro Library, 754 Prince Street, Truro, NS, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Cost: $40 per session; cash, credit, e transfer, or cheque accepted.

Contact Laura at lauraaliese@gmail.com to register and RSVP.

Laura Aliese Miedema is an Author Accelerator certified book coach in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Memoir and an active member of Book Coaches
Canada.

Book coaches are trained mentors, editors, and cheerleaders that help writers at any stage of the process, from designing their books to drafting, revising, pitching, and publishing them. Laura works at all these stages and specializes in helping authors to approach publishing for the first, real time, so they can contribute their unique gifts to the common good and fulfill their deep purpose.

She has been nicknamed “the Book Coach for the Underdogs” and works full time with writers all over the globe to have a fighting chance at approaching publishing. Laura has a big heart and a strong work ethic. She finds great joy in nurturing and empowering writers from all walks of life. She can’t wait to talk to you about your writing!

Upcoming Creative Writer Cafes
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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