Come out to our first Open Mic for writers on Thursday, April 17 at 7-8:30pm.
Any style of writing goes, by new or experienced writers. Feel free to try out your original writing on a small live audience — or just come listen! Light refreshments will be served.
Email canninglibrary@gmail.com to be added to the list of readers!
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Writer meet-up. In-person (Halifax).
Application deadline for self-directed retreats between May 26 and Dec 6, 2025. Submit applications by 11:59pm (Atlantic).
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Our book club is unique! Please read the following:
Our Book Club aims to promote local authors, their books, and the writing of reviews. #supportlocalauthors
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The Atlantic Book Awards Society seeks nominations for the 2025 Atlantic Legacy Award. This award honours individuals who have made a lasting contribution to the development of the literary arts in Atlantic Canada, people who have gone above and beyond the call of duty and who have, through innovation, risk-taking, self-sacrifice, and/or creativity, provided opportunity or inspiration (or both) for those sharing Atlantic Canadian stories through writing and publishing.
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Join Alice Burdick and Logan Kennedy for a celebratory afternoon of poetry at the newly reopened LaHave River Books!
Alice Burdick is the author of six books of poetry, including the Fall 2024 title Ox Lost, Snow Deep. Her poems and essays have appeared in multiple anthologies, chapbooks, folios, broadsides, cookbooks, and films. She leads workshops for children and adults and is a mentor, freelance editor, proofreader, manuscript assessor, and broadcaster. She lives in Lunenburg.
Logan Kennedy is a translator, writer, and editor. She has published two poetry chapbooks with the Little Books Collective, a community-building micropress based in Lunenburg. Informed by twenty years of German-English translation work in the fields of art, architecture, theatre, film, and history, Logan’s creative writing, including The Translation Chain Project (forthcoming with Guernica Editions) is nourished by the vibrant literary community of Nova Scotia’s South Shore.
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Author Julie Strong invites you to a reading/signing for her debut novel, The Tudor Prophecy.
Q and A with Debora Pollock, actor and theatre person.
Live period music (performed by Peter Togni, celebrated Atlantic musician and composer) and refreshments.
RSVP appreciated juliestrong@eastlink.ca
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Shean Poets & Writers invite you to an afternoon of poetry. Put a poem in your pocket and bring it along. Be it haiku or lyric, free verse or rhyme, traditional or modern, funny or sad, seasoned or shy, we’d love to have you join us. Register when you get there. Questions: tpmvfh@gmail.com
Join local poets Clare Goulet, Nanci Lee, Annick MacAskill, Nolan Natasha, and Anna Quon for a National Poetry Month reading and celebration. Event supported by the League of Canadian Poets.
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4-week workshop begins. Registration closed. Click title to see other WFNS Workshops & Events.
The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) uses the following terms to describe writers’ experience levels:
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
