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Locally Authored Book Club Exchange

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Dartmouth Book Exchange
Location:
1187 Cole Harbour Road, Dartmouth. More info
Link:
https://dartmouthbookexchange.ca/events/
Calendar:
Member event

Debbie Marshall will present Too Many to Mourn: One Family’s Tragedy in the Halifax Explosion by James Mahar and Rowena Mahar. Rowena is Debbie’s Aunt, her mother’s youngest sister. The book tells the tragic story of a family that lost the most members during the explosion. This is in addition to the rest of our members presenting their books.

Our book club is unique, please read the following:

  • Each participant will bring a locally authored or published novel they have recently read and can part with. Locally authored will be defined as an author living within the Atlantic Bubble.
  • During the meeting, each person will take a turn telling everyone what they liked about the book they brought and why the others should read it.
  • Each book will go into a basket and at the end of the meeting, if a book sparked your interest, you’ll be able to take it home to read.
  • If there is more than one person interested in reading the book, it will be brought back to the next meeting, for another person’s turn.
  • We may even host an author occasionally and Dartmouth Book Exchange may even seed the basket once in a while.
  • All are welcome to come and listen during the meetings, but only the people who brought a book will be guaranteed to leave with a book.

Our Book Club aims to promote local authors, their books, and the writing of reviews. #supportlocalauthors

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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