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King’s Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference

Date/Time:
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Venue:
University of King's College
Location:
6350 Coburg Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://ukings.ca/events/creative-writing-storytelling-conference-2026/
Calendar:
Community event

King’s announces its second annual Creative Writing & Storytelling Conference, hosted by the Writing & Publishing MFA programs in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction.

This year’s conference theme is Writing and Storytelling as Resistance.
In conjunction with Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on April 25, 2026, the conference will address how storytelling and writing contribute to a renewed artistic age of resistance. As authoritarianism expands and power increasingly narrows and corrupts, what are our duties as writers and storytellers? Who gets to tell a story?

And while the traditional book publishing industry navigates the constraints and irrationality of late capitalism, what are the alternative modes of presenting, sharing, publishing and telling stories? How can writing, an individual practice, be mobilized to create communities of resistance? What is the role of writing craft in social change?

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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