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Reading Between the Lines: The Material Culture of Hidden History

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Lunenburg Library
Location:
97 Kaulbach Street, Lunenburg. More info
Link:
https://volumesdirect.com/products/dear-harry-the-firsthand-account-of-a-world-war-1-infantryman
Calendar:
Member-organized event

How do historians uncover the truth when the official paperwork goes missing? In this illustrated presentation, material culture historian Norma Shephard reveals how physical objects—from the specific ink and wax on a page to forgotten personal items—hold the clues to the past. Learn how the tangible artifacts left behind by ordinary people can challenge, confirm, or entirely reshape the official grand narratives of history.

Signed copies of Norma Shephard’s book Dear Harry: A Canadian War Story Told Through Letters will be available for sale at the event.

This free, presentation is Part II of a two-part Booktoberfest event. For further information, contact: normafreda@gmail.com or (905) 220-2762.

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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