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The Wave & The Island: A Drawing Workshop

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Open Book Coffee
Location:
3660 Strawberry Hill Street, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://www.brianacorrscott.com/workshops
Calendar:
Community event, Member-organized event

The Wave Before the Island
An Afternoon at Open Book Coffee, Halifax

Join artist Briana Corr Scott and Sable Island guide Geordie Mott for a free, relaxed afternoon of storytelling and drawing. Hear firsthand accounts of Canada’s most remote island, then try your hand at sketching ocean waves from life. A beautiful way to spend a Saturday afternoon — no experience needed.

What’s included:
– Stories and Sable Island highlights from Briana and Geordie
– Guided wave-drawing session with Briana
– Time to browse, ask questions, and have books signed
– All supplies included
– Beginner friendly
– All ages welcome
– Free — registration required (https://www.brianacorrscott.com/workshops)

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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