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Acclaimed comic artist Kate Beaton speaks at SMU

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Scotiabank Conference Theatre (Sobey Building 201), Saint Mary’s University, 923 Robie St, Halifax
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We in SMU’s Dept. of English & the Irish Studies Program warmly invite you to join us for the 2025 Cyril J. Byrne Memorial lecture, to be delivered by acclaimed comic artist Kate Beaton (author of the award-winning graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands).

What is the relationship between the arts and the economy? How do we value the ‘work’ of art and the business of creativity in our daily lives?

Spend an evening with Beaton as she revisits her earliest work – some never seen in public – and discusses her artistic journey so far.

“We Were Always Working and Making Art: Rethinking the Economics and Value of Creativity”

Friday, March 21 at 7 p.m. Scotiabank Conference Theatre (Sobey Building 201), Saint Mary’s University

Join us in celebrating one of Atlantic Canada’s greatest artists as she charts her journey from Mabou, Inverness County out to the world and back home again.

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  • 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