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Writing Game Night at Open Book Coffee

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Open Book Coffee
Location:
3660 Strawberry Hill Street, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://instagram.com/openbookcoffee
Calendar:
Community event

Doors open at 6:30, event starts at 7.

Join author Shannon Fay for a fun, laidback hour of writing exercises.

Craft a story using a journaling game as the framework: Shannon will read off prompts and you write your response, building a story one fictional journal entry at a time.

This month’s game will be The Sealed Library, a solo writing game where you are a librarian trying to save works of literature in a city under siege.

Please bring something to write in, such as a notebook or a laptop.

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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 and 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.

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