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Summer Literary Soirée

Join us Thursday, Aug 10 (6:30pm to 8:30pm) for our first public event at Jampolis Cottage! Come see this amazing gift that WFNS is using for writers’ residencies and retreats. We’ll raise a glass in honor of children’s writer Sheree Fitch, recently named to the Order of Canada, and enjoy readings by Annapolis Valley writers Amanda Peters (The Berry Pickers), Dean Jobb (The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream), and Deborah Hemming (Throw Down Your Shadows). There will be blueberry desserts made in the Jampolis Cottage kitchen, a selection of local wines, and Coles New Minas on-site selling the featured authors’ books.

Click here for a Google Maps link to Jampolis Cottage (315 Bluff Rd, Avonport, NS). Old-school directions: take Exit 9 off of Hwy 101; proceed through the roundabout onto Oak Island Road; and take the first right onto Bluff Road. Jampolis Cottage is just 1.5km along Bluff Road, on the left, next to Penny Beach.

All are welcome!

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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 information, strategies, and skills that suit their career stage. 

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 you’re uncertain of your experience level with regard to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca