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Writing from Superstition

Date:
Time:
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Location:
Virtual (Zoom)
Link:
https://www.triciasnell.com/
Calendar:
Member-organized event

Tricia Snell’s Fall 2026 Writing SESSIONS
5 Mondays via Zoom
Oct. 26, Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 2026

Five 90-minute online sessions to:
—stimulate your writing practice
—observe, describe, characterize, with superstition as our lens
—write within a friendly, collegial, supportive community

Suitable for prose or poetry writers, emerging or experienced. We’ll look at how superstition inhabits your or your characters’ daily lives, and from many angles, such as magic, faith, culture, history, science, math, or other cosmic systems. Each week, we’ll read relevant writing from other artists, I’ll suggest ways to get your words to the page, and we’ll write in silent companionship. You can generate new writing or advance an ongoing project. No prep required; just arrive as you are. We’ll have time at the end for brief sharing of the session’s experiences or what you wrote (entirely voluntary).

FEE: $130. Interac to tricia@triciasnell.com

REGISTRATION: Pls email/text Tricia at Tricia@TriciaSnell.com / 902-514-8722 to register or ask questions. After that your payment secures your spot. After payment, you’ll receive a Zoom link. See also for policies: www.triciasnell.com/workshop-policies

About Tricia Snell: Over the past forty years, Tricia’s writing has appeared in many places, most recently in the anthology, NOT THE SAME ROAD OUT (Tidewater Press, 2025). She’s published two chapbooks, NELLIE (fiction, 2024) and ROOTED (poetry, 2023) thru the Little Books Collective. Her story, OUT TO THE HORSES, was longlisted for CBC’s 2019 Short Story Prize and appeared in ROOM magazine. The story, A GLASS OF VODKA, was included in the NPR Radio show, THE SOUND OF WRITING. Tricia has taught writing, literature, and music from her own studio, in community centres, and universities. She lives in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. www.triciasnell.com

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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