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Amanda Leduc, King’s MFA Writer-in-Residence

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/6a0cc75a43b41b3d00679fa3
Calendar:
Community event

Venue room: Paul O’Regan Hall

The King’s Master of Fine Arts writer-in-residence for the June Residency is Amanda Leduc, a disabled writer and author of the non-fiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space, which was published by Coach House Books in 2020 and shortlisted Governor General’s Award in Non-Fiction and longlisted for the Barbellion Prize. Her latest novel, WILD LIFE, was longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the Giller Prize. Her essays and stories have appeared across Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia, and she speaks regularly on accessibility and the role of disability in storytelling.

Amanda will join the MFA programs in Creative Writing at the University of King’s College as the Writer-in-Residence this June.

The King’s Co-op Bookstore will have copies of Amanda’s books for sale and signing.

For more information on the MFA programs, please visit https://ukings.ca/area-of-study/writing-and-publishing/

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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