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Vicki Grant launches “These Are The Fireworks”

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia / Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia
Location:
1113 Marginal Rd, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://www.vickigrant.com/
Calendar:
Member event

Ever fantasize about killing your spouse? Then Vicki Grant’s debut adult mystery might be just your thing.

Journalist and author Elizabeth Renzetti called it, “delightful…twisty, funny, and ultimately warm-hearted.”

Best-selling novelist Tom Ryan described it as “tender, tense and hilarious.”

If you’re looking for a how-to guide to DIY widowhood, you’ll have to find it elsewhere, but we do hope you’ll still come to the launch. (And bring your book club too!)

Boxed wine and sad, superstore appetizers will be served. Books will be available for sale but if you can’t make the launch or are worried we’ll sell out — that’s the spirit! — you can pre-order directly here: https://halifax.bookmarkreads.ca/browse/filter/t/9781774715109/k/keyword

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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