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Open Mic Afternoon at Shorebound Books

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Shorebound Books
Location:
142 Water Street, Shelburne. More info
Link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/728830642840152
Calendar:
Community event

Join us for a very special Open Mic Afternoon! Are you a writer? Are you a literary enthusiast? Come read for us and find an audience for your work or show your appreciation for your favourite author or poet. Please send us a message if you’d like to participate.

You can expect an appreciative audience and a welcoming atmosphere either in our spacious backyard (weather permitted) or in the store. Either way, it promised to be an fantastic evening or literary goodness!

If you have published work you’d like to sell at the event, be sure to mention it when you contact us.

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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