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Adele Megann

BIOGRAPHY
Adele Megann is a Newfoundlander based in Halifax. Her short fiction has been published in Canadian and US periodicals and anthologies. She has won several awards–including the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award–and has given many readings and interviews. She has been told that her accent is charming. She thinks everyone else’s accents are charming.

Adele lived several years in Calgary, where she was part of the Pack of Liars writing workshop, and she was a fiction editor of Dandelion magazine. Over the years, Adele has been involved in the writing community by organizing readings, and teaching and judging creative writing.

After returning eastwards by moving to Nova Scotia in 1999, Adele became acquainted with her new home by participating in Writers in the Schools throughout the province. She performed at Playwrights in Performance Cabarets. She coordinated school matinees and wrote curriculum guides for Exodus Theatre Society.

In addition to her literary publications, she has also contributed several articles to an Irish magazine called Set Dancing News.

Adele’s day jobs usually involve teaching. She has taught diverse subjects–including music, drama and literacy–to children and adults, including those with disabilities. She sings, and plays several instruments, usually in the context of traditional Irish music. She lives with an assortment of humans and animals.

PUBLICATIONS

PERIODICALS
“Agnes Unvirgin,” Fiction on the Web (UK), Nov 14, 2025.
“Triptych: What I Learned From My Cat,” Paperplates (Toronto), vol.5, no.3, 2003.
“Thief,” Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, no.37, 2001.
“Ophelia and Rosencrantz Discuss Censorship,” Mississippi Review, vol.29, no.3, Summer 2001.
“Claudius Looks,” Mississippi Review, vol.29, no.3, Summer 2001.
“Overlooking Cove,” Gaspereau Review (Wolfville), no.8, Summer 1999.
“Living Colour,” Pottersfield Portfolio (Halifax), vol.17, no.2, Winter 1997.
“Spirits,” Forum: Journal of the Calgary Women’s Writing Project (Calgary), Fall/Winter 1995, vol.6, no.1.
“The Saga of Mary Marie,” paperplates (Toronto), 1995 vol.2, no.3.
“Palimpsest” (Contest Runner-up), Filling Station (Calgary), vol. 1, no. 1, 1994.
“Les uns et les autres,” Blue Buffalo (Calgary), vol. 10, no. 3, 1992.
“Single Girl,” Secrets from the Orange Couch (Edmonton), vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 1991.

ANTHOLOGIES
“Twelfth Night,” La Cucina Egeriana: Time, Tastes and Tables. Indiana: Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy, [1997].
“Living Colour,” Taking Off the Tinsel. Edmonton: Rowan Books, 1996.
“The Missing You,” Boundless Alberta. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1993.

AWARDS
  • Nomination for the Journey Prize, 2002
  • Honourable Mention in Novel category, 24th Annual Atlantic Writing Competition, 2001
  • Recipient, Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award, 1995
  • First runner-up, 2-20-200 Contest, Filling Station, 1994

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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