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Shannon Fay hosts Writing Game Night

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Open Book Coffee
Location:
3660 Strawberry Hill Street, Halifax. More info
Calendar:
Community event

Let’s Play a Writing Game: Tavern at the End of the World

Join author Shannon Fay for a fun, laidback hour of writing exercises. Craft a story using a journaling game as the framework: Shannon will read off prompts and you write something in response, building a story one fictional journal entry at a time. This month’s game will be Tavern at the End of the World, a solo writing game where you are the owner of a shady bar, chronicling the odd patrons who pass through your establishment. Please bring something to write in (e.g. a laptop or notebook).

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and event starts at 7 p.m. Admission is free but participants are encouraged to buy a drink or treat from Open Book Coffee and settle in for a cozy evening of writing!

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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