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The Tenth Donald Sedgwick Reading Series

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/6a0cc6323246e7b84b50283a
Calendar:
Community event

Venue room: Paul O’Regan Hall

Lost families, lost history, a flair for fashion, and the challenges of raising a disabled child – these are the subjects of new books by four graduates of the University of King’s College Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program, who will be celebrated during the Tenth Donald Sedgwick Reading Series.

Please join us for this annual reading series, named for the MFA program’s co-founder, former publisher, agent, and publishing instructor Donald Sedgwick. This year’s featured readers are:

  • Amy Fish, One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity (Goose Lane Editions)
  • Diedre Macdonald, Her Hat in the Ring: Toronto Milliner El Jamon and Her Circle (Self Published)
  • Lori McKay, Searching for Mayflowers: The True Story of Canada’s First Quintuplets (Nimbus Publishing)
  • Adelle Purdham, I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself (Dundurn Press)

The authors will discuss their books after the readings and the King’s Co-op Bookstore will have copies of the featured books for sale and signing.

For more information on the King’s MFA programs, please visit https://ukings.ca/area-of-study/writing-and-publishing/

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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, writing for 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.

Occasionally, WFNS uses the phrase “emerging and established writers/authors” to mean ‘writers and authors of all experience levels.’

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 info, strategies, and skills that suit their experience. 

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 uncertain about your experience level with respect to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca