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Fantastic Fiction

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Venue:
Wooden Monkey
Location:
40 Alderney Dr., #305, Level 2 Alderney Ferry Terminal, Dartmouth. More info
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Community event

Fantastic Fiction brings together readers and Nova Scotian authors to celebrate the nominees of the Nova Scotia Book Awards fiction prizes. Featuring the following book award finalists:

Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction Nominees
Renée Belliveau, A Sense of Things Beyond, Vagrant Press
Robert de la Chevotière, We Were Not Kings, Little A
Danica Roache, Five Seasons of Charlie Francis, Vagrant Press

Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Fiction Nominees
Danica Roache, Five Seasons of Charlie Francis, Vagrant Press
Julie K Strong, The Tudor Prophecy, OC Publishing
Brenda Tyedmers, Mrs. Walford, Self-published

Hosted by Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction finalist, Shelley Thompson. Shelley is nominated for and will be reading from her book of short stories, Winter Sky, Vagrant Press. Books will be sold by the Dartmouth Book Exchange.

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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