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Located on the shores of the Minas Basin in Avonport, Nova Scotia, Jampolis Cottage is a lovingly maintained and updated 230-year-old Georgian colonial house that welcomes emerging, established, and professional authors from Nova Scotia and beyond.

Administered by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, the Jampolis Cottage Residency Program was made possible by the late owners of the house—Neil Peter Jampolis and Maritza “Jane” Reisman Jampolis, award-winning scenic and lighting designers—and by the Jampolis Living Trust founded in their name.

To support the Jampolis Cottage Residency program through monetary donations or donations of recreational equipment, please see Donate to WFNS.

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The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia is grateful to the Jampolis Living Trust; the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage; the Raddall family of Liverpool, Nova Scotia; and the Municipality of the County of Kings for their foundational investments in the Jampolis Cottage Residency Program.

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia is also grateful to the Honorable Don Oliver, CM, ONS, KC; The Craig Foundation; the Delmore “Buddy Daye” Learning Institute; and the Robert Pope Foundation for their investments in Sponsored Residencies and Retreats.

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Halifax, NS B3H 4P7

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The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia is based in Kjipuktuk, in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship,” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties do not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognize Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and establish the rules for an ongoing relationship between nations.

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Recommended Experience Levels

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) recommends that participants in any given workshop 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. The “Recommended experience level” section of each workshop description refers to the following definitions used by WFNS.

  • 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, and writing for children and young adults) 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.

For “intensive” and “masterclass” creative writing 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