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Dean Jobb at Canning Library

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Canning Library / Merritt Gibson Library
Location:
9806 Main St, Canning. More info
Link:
https://www.thecanninglibrary.ca/
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Community event

Bestselling historical true crime writer Dean Jobb kicks off our summer series! Join us for a lively reading followed by a Q & A. Everyone is welcome; no registration required.

Dean Jobb’s latest book, A Gentleman and a Thief, is a national bestseller and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. He is the author of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream, the story of a Victorian-era serial killer, and Empire of Deception, the tale of a fugitive swindler on the lam in 1920s Nova Scotia. He has won the CrimeCon and Crime Writers of Canada awards for best true crime book and was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize.

This event is part of the Canning Library’s 2024-2025 Literary Series which provides free readings and workshops funded by Arts Nova Scotia’s Artists in Communities Program.

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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