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SPEAK UP! Rally for Arts, Heritage, & Culture (Annapolis Royal, Antigonish, Halifax, Liverpool, Pictou County, Shelburne, Sydney, Truro, Wolfville, & Yarmouth)

***Pre-Rally Gathering & Sign-Making (Halifax)***: Starting at 9:00am on March 4, members and supporters of all Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia (CFNS) are invited to our offices (1113 Marginal Rd, Halifax) to gather, help create signs for the rally, and march together to Province House. The CFNS offices are a wheelchair-accessible venue with ungendered washrooms. Pedestrian routes from the CFNS offices to Province House are wheelchair-accessible for the duration.

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Message to WFNS members from Executive Director Oriana Duinker: Call to action: oppose the defunding of Nova Scotian arts, heritage, and culture

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Message from the Nova Scotia Arts Coalition:

Arts and Culture in Nova Scotia needs your voice!

The provincial budget has targeted the cultural sector disproportionately with cuts that will devastate individuals, organizations, and communities across the province. If the cuts are not reversed there will be no more artists in schools, productions will be cut, cultural workers will lose their jobs, and the province will lose many talented and creative people when we need them the most.

We know the province needs to revitalize, and Arts and Culture are part of the solution.

Please gather to show your support of Arts and culture and to call for a reversal of the cuts to arts and culture on Wednesday, March 4 at noon outside the NS Legislature (Province House)

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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