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Treelines: Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with Anne Simpson

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
ARTSPLACE Gallery
Location:
396 St George Street, Annapolis Royal. More info
Link:
https://www.arcac.ca/ekphrastic-poetry-workshop.html
Calendar:
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Poetry can be a conversation with a work of art, but how to start that conversation?

Anne Simpson, an established writer and long-time facilitator, will help you investigate art by way of poetry at the “Wandering Through Trees” exhibit at ARTSPLACE in Annapolis Royal in May 2026.

Ekphrasis, a word that comes from the Greek for “speaking out,” shows you how to imaginatively amplify an artwork through poetry. Through this workshop, you will explore what can take your poems beyond a simple description of what you see. You will learn several poetic approaches, gain understanding from working in a group, and have time to read your work to a small audience.

Registration fee: $40

Register at above link.

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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