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Sarah L Hawthorn & Mere Joyce in Conversation

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/6a149644703c33630029dc74
Calendar:
Member-organized event

Room 301 (Floor 3)

Please join us for the launch of Sarah L. Hawthorn’s debut novel, A Fate Worse Than Drowning!

A Fate Worse Than Drowning (Poisoned Pen Press) is a historical fantasy debut featuring sisters on the run from a cruel fiancé, deals with the Devil, heart-wrenching romances, and a novel-length love letter to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Mere Joyce, author of the Oracle of Senders series and upcoming historical horror novel As the Snow Gathers, will join Sarah for a discussion about writing, publishing, and reading Maritime fiction.

Bring your questions about publishing, Canadian horror, historical fiction, and queer fiction, and get a sneak peek of Nova Scotia’s new voices in folk horror!

Books will be available for purchase.

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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