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OC Publishing Author Meet & Greet

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

Join us for an informal Thursday evening Meet & Greet with 3 of OC Publishing’s Fiction Authors.

In 2023, Jill MacLean’s first historical fiction, The Arrows of Mercy, was a finalist for the Whistler Independent Book Award sponsored by The Writers’ Union of Canada. This summer, she launched a standalone sequel, Arrows of Fealty, set in 1373.

Julie Strong launched her debut novel, The Tudor Prophecy, on January 25, 2025. The novel is an epic story of resilience and destiny, which takes place during the oppressive, especially to women, reign of Henry VIII. It echoes our present time and shows how only love and courage can undermine the power of despots.

Anne Louise O’Connell’s first novel, Mental Pause, launched on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2013, and won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY). Her next novel, Deep Deceit, launched March 8, 2015 (re-released in 2025) and is the first in the Deep Mysteries series. The second in the series, Deep Freeze, launched on March 8, 2025.

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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