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Writing Workshops: Writing from your life

Date:
Time:
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Location:
Second Story Women's Centre, 18 Dufferin St., Lunenburg, NS B4V 2G1
Link:
https://www.secondstory.ca/calendar.html
Calendar:
Community event, Member-organized event

Two workshops, Oct 8 & 15, 6-7:30pm, at Second Story Women’s Centre in Lunenburg

Writing as a Tool for Navigating Change (Oct 8)

Writing Your Life (Oct 15)

This workshop welcomes anyone who wants to make time for their own writing, whether prose or poetry, and whether just starting or more experienced. This time offers the opportunity to write in any way you choose
within a friendly, supportive community.

On October 8, we’ll look at how to use writing as a tool to navigate life changes. This is often “private” writing. You may choose to keep this writing private forever, or you might share it.

On October 15, we’ll look at how to use your own life as the basis for more “finished” writing that you want to share, and that others will want to read.

You can participate in just one or both of the workshops. No prep is required. Arrive just as you are. Pads of paper and pencils will be provided, or you can bring your own writing materials.

All Second Story services, including these workshops, are FREE to women, girls, and gender-diverse people in Lunenburg and Queen’s Counties.

TO REGISTER: call 902-640-304 or send an email to info@secstory.com

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