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Women’s Writing Retreat

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Birchdale Lake Lodge, 977 Birchdale Rd, Barrio Lake, NS B5A 5Y2, Canada
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Member-organized event

Women’s Writing Retreat at Birchdale Lake Lodge (birchdalelake.com), Aug. 25-29.

This is your time. Your time to write, sleep, find your muse, swim, paddle, gaze at the stars, chat with other writers… or simply do a whole lot of nothing. Space to pause, space to restore.

Fee: $675 inc. shared cabin, all meals, one-on-one time with the co-hosts if desired, and GST. It’s the bargain of the year!

For details and how to register, contact Sandra Phinney at sandracphinny@gmail.com or 902 648-0462

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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