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Events

Books on the Breeze: Lana Shupe, Reading

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Venue:
Westville Public Library
Location:
2042 Queen Street, Unit 3, Westville. More info
Link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2939190006234401/
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Community event

Join Read by the Sea for another edition of Books on the Breeze, this time with author Lana Shupe!

Lana is the author of The Lonely Little Lighthouse, The Hippie Pirates, The Little Church Beside the Sea, and The Book Witch, the Wee White Dog & the Little Free Library. This free, public reading event is for children, families, and the young at heart.

Books on the Breeze is presented by Read by the Sea in partnership with the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library, and supported by Arts Nova Scotia and the Access Copyright Foundation.

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James MacDuff & Mirriam Mweemba launch The Illogical Adventure

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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://www.illogicaladventure.com/
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Member event

Book Launch for The Illogical Adventure: A Memoir of Love and Fate at the Halifax Central Library (2nd floor, BMO Community Room)!

Co-authors James MacDuff and Mirriam Mweemba will be reading from the book and taking questions. Autographed copies available for $20, cash-only.

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Solomon Nagler launches “piyyut”

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Venue:
Radstorm
Location:
2177 Gottingen Street, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://nevermore.press/
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Community event

Nevermore Press is pleased to announce the launch of piyyut, a book of poetry by Solomon Nagler. The evening will include multimedia performances as well as readings. All are welcome.
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Solomon Nagler is a poet and filmmaker originally from Winnipeg, Canada. Allegorical in form, his work is composed of fragments of recognizable reality that commingle with the raw matter of hallucination and nascent form. His work also includes 16mm celluloid installations that engage with sculpture and experimental architecture in galleries and public space. He is currently a professor of film production at NSCAD University in Halifax.

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dART Speak

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Venue:
The Dart Gallery
Location:
127 Portland Street, Dartmouth. More info
Link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/498535712311932
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Community event

Share your writing with us or just come listen. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction all are welcome!

What can you expect?
Doors open around 6:45 for this PWYC event. Slot signup on-site. This is a great place to practice public reading and test out new work in a friendly group of like-minded creatives. We always have a good time, lots of applause and laughs.

The bar is open, and there’s limited (order-in) food service.

The venue is mostly on one level but there are three stairs to get to the washroom. The front door isn’t automatic, please knock if you need assistance!

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Atlantic Book Awards Society AGM

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https://atlanticbookawards.ca/
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Community event

The Atlantic Book Awards Society board has the mandate “to promote and acknowledge excellence in Atlantic Canadian writing and book publishing through an annual awards ceremony and related events.” During the upcoming AGM, the board will review last year’s festival and look ahead to this year’s festival, May 29 to June 5.

Interested in attending? Please email atlanticbookawardsfestival@gmail.com

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Two Poets Talking: A Conversation Between Poets Laureate

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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/67ed81a02971a34a250e5245
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Community event

Connect with HRM’s Poets Laureate as a finale to National Poetry Month! Poet Laureate Anna Quon and Youth Poet Laureate Asha Abdosh will share selections from their work and engage in conversation about their practice, their interest in poetry, and their connections to community.

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A Definitive (Re-)Intro to WFNS

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https://writers.ns.ca/workshops-events/a-definitive-introduction-to-wfns/
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WFNS Events

Join WFNS staff as we survey the ‘craft’ and ‘professional’ development opportunities available to up-and-coming writers, summarize our many compensated oppportunities for established and professional authors, and outline how writers and authors of all experience levels can get involved in WFNS’s Board of Directors and its committees.

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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