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The Winter Writing Weekend

Date/Time:
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Location:
Virtual
Link:
https://afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/winter-writing-weekend/
Calendar:
Community event

The Winter Writing Weekend, presented by AfterWords Literary Festival, is a series of virtual workshops, craft talks, Q&As and guided writing sessions designed to deepen your writing practice and help you connect with your community during these cold winter days. We’ll talk creativity and productivity with the editors of Bad Artist—Gillian Turnbull, Nellwyn Lampert, Pamela Oakley, and Christian Smith. The amazing Zoe Whittall—novelist, poet, screenwriter and more—delivers our keynote address. Joshua Whitehead presents a craft talk on epistemologies and intertextuality in creative writing. Plus, workshops for writers at all levels with Danny Ramadan, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Francesca Ekwuyasi, and Zoe Whittall. There are also opportunities to write together in short guided sessions with prompts offered by Stephanie Domet, and a final session for checking in and thinking about ways to take The Winter Writing Weekend’s wealth into the rest of your writing life.

Find more details, and register for sessions, at the link above.

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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