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Soirée littéraire en compagnie de l’auteur louisianais Chase Cormier

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://atlanticbookawards.ca/june-4-soiree-litteraire-en-compagnie-de-lauteur-louisianais-chase-cormier/
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Community event

Découvrez l’univers de Mal (Éditions Perce-Neige, 2024), lors d’une lecture de l’auteur Chase Cormier et d’un entretien animé par Simon Thibault. Activité présentée avec le relais de l’Alliance française d’Halifax (partenariat de communication).

Au fin fond de la prairie des Opelousas grandit Perroquet. Alors que ses parents se séparent, il trouve refuge tantôt dans la cuisine pleine d’odeurs de sa grand-mère, tantôt dans la boucherie bruyante de son grand-père Mal. Pour ce dernier, le bonheur se trouve dans les choses simples, dans la découpe de la viande, les plats préparés et la satisfaction du travail bien fait. Pour Perroquet, ce n’est pas aussi limpide. Son père a refusé de travailler dans la boucherie, a refusé de parler français. Descendant d’une longue lignée de francophones en Louisiane, Perroquet cherche donc sa place. Son identité. Jusqu’à ce qu’il trouve l’écriture et qu’il se mette à collectionner les mots, en les sélectionnant soigneusement comme les ingrédients d’une recette encore et toujours à améliorer.

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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