Get It Right: Finding Your Voice in Writing for Children & Youth (virtual) with Sylvia Gunnery
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Acclaimed comic artist Kate Beaton speaks at SMU
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Scotiabank Conference Theatre (Sobey Building 201), Saint Mary’s University, 923 Robie St, Halifax
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We in SMU’s Dept. of English & the Irish Studies Program warmly invite you to join us for the 2025 Cyril J. Byrne Memorial lecture, to be delivered by acclaimed comic artist Kate Beaton (author of the award-winning graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands).
What is the relationship between the arts and the economy? How do we value the ‘work’ of art and the business of creativity in our daily lives?
Spend an evening with Beaton as she revisits her earliest work – some never seen in public – and discusses her artistic journey so far.
“We Were Always Working and Making Art: Rethinking the Economics and Value of Creativity”
Friday, March 21 at 7 p.m. Scotiabank Conference Theatre (Sobey Building 201), Saint Mary’s University
Join us in celebrating one of Atlantic Canada’s greatest artists as she charts her journey from Mabou, Inverness County out to the world and back home again.
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Perpetual Astonishment: A Reading for the Equinox
Join Elliott Gish, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Clare Goulet, and Margo Wheaton for a celebration of the dawn of spring with poetry and prose.
Elliott Gish is a writer and librarian from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her work has appeared in the Dalhousie Review, Grain Magazine, The New Quarterly, and many others. Her debut novel, Grey Dog, was published by ECW Press in 2024. Elliott lives in the North End with her partner and the world’s silliest black cat.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn is the author and editor of fourteen books of poetry, essays and scholarly work, most recently The Old Moon in Her Arms: Women I Have Known and Been (Nimbus) and Following the River: Traces of Red River Women (Wolsak and Wynn). Her poetry has appeared in The Malahat Review, CV2, Prairie Fire, Sweetwater, and Juniper, among other publications. Former Halifax Poet Laureate, Lorri is Professor Emerita at Mount Saint Vincent University and a mentor in the University of King’s College MFA program in creative nonfiction.
Clare Goulet is a poet, essayist, editor, and instructor and the coordinator of the Writing Center at MSVU. Her interests include interdisciplinary writing, poetics, metaphor and the work of Jan Zwicky, especially applications of her notion of ‘lyric philosophy.’ Graphis scripta / writing lichen (Gaspereau Press, 2024) is her first collection of poems. Her writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Grain, Room, Collateral, Poetry Canada Review, and The Dalhousie Review. She lives and teaches in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, NS.
Margo Wheaton is the author of Rags of Night in Our Mouths (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022) and Wild Green Light (Pottersfield Press, 2021), co-authored with David Adams Richards. Her debut collection, The Unlit Path Behind the House, received the Fred Kerner Award from the Canadian Authors Association and was shortlisted for the J.M. Abraham Award, The Gerald Lampert Award, the Fred Cogswell Award, and the Relit Award. Margo is an associate editor at The Dalhousie Review and currently works as a writing consultant, mentor, and workshop facilitator.
The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia office is a wheelchair-accessible venue with a wheelchair-accessible, non-gendered washroom. For assistance finding the WFNS office door, see our map of the area.
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Ted Leighton launches People of Cove and Woodlot
Author Ted Leighton will make a presentation and sign copies of his newest book: People of Cove and Woodlot, Stories Across 100 Years of Memories.
This is a book of memoir stories of real people and events in Digby County, spanning 1920 to 1970, co-authored posthumously by his father Alexander Leighton, and illustrated by artist Eva McCauley. The book was released for distribution on 1 March 2025.
“Mirroring the 1950s sociological study of Digby County, People of Cove and Woodlot, this modern classic of the same name showcases “a living portrait of individuals” like Innocent Comeau, an Acadian who could farm, blacksmith, saw lumber, and build his own four-masted schooner to sail the Atlantic. With powerful writing, the Leightons have created an affectionate and indispensable record of the ancestral home we southwest Nova Scotians share and love.”
– Harry Thurston, author of Tidal Life, A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy and Lost River, The Waters of Remembrance
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WFNS office closure
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March 17, 2025 - March 21, 2025
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The WFNS office will be closed (and Subtext paused) to provide all staff with a week off.
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Navigating Income Streams for Writers (virtual) with Sherry D. Ramsey
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Message on a Bottle extended deadline
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Extended entry deadline for the Message on a Bottle contest. Submit entries and entry fees by 11:59pm.
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Making Memories Work for You: Memoir & Personal Essay (virtual; March edition) with Sandra Phinney
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Stranger Tables
Stranger Tables ~ a celebration of how books bring people together. Tickets are limited, capped at 25 seats. Everyone who attends goes home with a special gift and will have the opportunity to enjoy an individual box of charcuterie provided by local business, Halifax Charcuterie. My intention is to host a literacy inspired event, promote books and reading, promote myself as a writer/author, but most of all provide a safe, low-stimuli, less crowded environment for people to meet one another, that’s what it’s all about 🙂
Get your tickets today via email: thehappycamperwriter@gmail.com
Book launch: Deep Freeze
We will be celebrating the launch of the second book in the Deep Mysteries series, Deep Freeze by Anne Louise O’Connell.
Susan Morris is relishing the artificial cold of Ski Dubai, an indoor ski hill in the middle of the desert, with fellow ex-pat Pat Thornton when she sees the chairlift carrying Pat’s husband detach from its cable and plummet to the ground. After an attempt is made on Barry Thornton’s life while he’s in hospital, Susan begins to suspect the chairlift crash was no accident. Then the Thorntons’ home on the Palm Jumeirah is broken into and their Sri Lankan maid goes missing. Feeling the tell-tale prickling at the back of her neck, Susan is certain all these incidents are connected, but how? In this second book in the Deep Mysteries series, the innate drive to help others puts ex-nurse Susan Morris in precarious positions. Her very life is threatened as she pokes her nose into places it doesn’t belong.
An author, developmental book editor and partner publisher, Anne Louise O’Connell can be found working on her latest novel, mentoring other authors, publishing books or leading writing workshops. Anne’s first book, @Home in Dubai – Getting Connected Online and on the Ground, was traditionally published in the UK by Summertime Publishing (2011) and re-released by Springtime Books. Her first novel, Mental Pause, launched on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2013, won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY). Her next novel, Deep Deceit, launched March 8, 2015, and is the first in a planned series of Deep Mysteries. Deep Freeze is scheduled for release March 2025. While living as an expat in Thailand, she was a regular contributor to the Wall St. Journal Expat Blog and Global Living Magazine. Upon her return to Canada in 2016, after 23 years of expat life, she established OC Publishing in Halifax, NS.
The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia office is a wheelchair-accessible venue with a wheelchair-accessible, non-gendered washroom. For assistance finding the WFNS office door, see our map of the area.
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