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Opaat Press Second Anniversary Poetry Bash

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://annickmacaskill.com/opaat-press/
Calendar:
Community event

Save the date! The Opaat Press Second Anniversary Poetry Bash will take place at the Central Branch of the Halifax Library (in Paul O’Regan Hall) Saturday, November 22, from 2-4 pm. 2 hours, 20+ poets from across Atlantic Canada, event free and open to all. Supported by the League of Canadian Poets, The Writers’ Union of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, and Halifax Public Libraries.

Including poets Lisa McCabe, Anna Quon, Clare Goulet, Alice Burdick, Nolan Natasha, Jaime Forsythe, Margo Wheaton, Nanci Lee, Tiffany Morris, Matt Robinson, Allison LaSorda, Johanna Gibson, Ben Gallagher, Anna Swanson, Cory Lavender, Andreae Callanan, Ambrose Albert, Jimmy T Cahill, Sappho, and Alison Smith.

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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