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Spotlight Session with Donna Jones Alward, Cavendish Literary Festival

Date:
Time:
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Location:
PEI Preserve Co, 2841 New Glasgow Rd, New Glasgow, PEI COA 1NO
Link:
https://www.cavendishliteraryfestival.com/schedule/
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Member event

Join moderator Jessica Doria-Brown and New York Times Bestselling Author Donna Alward Jones for a lively discussion about Donna’s historical fiction works, including her new novel Ship of Dreams.

The evening opens with a discussion with Caitlyn Paxson, writer, performer, and historical interpreter, talking about her new book: A Widow’s Charm is a Comedy of Errors fantasy romance in which a clever widow blackmails her rakish necromancer neighbour to bring her husband back to life and save her home. The evening wraps up with a musical performance from 2024 Music PEI Entertainer of the Year, Lawrence Maxwell.

Books available for purchase, with signing by author during the entertainment.

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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