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Angela Mombourquette

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Mombourquette is the adult non-fiction editor at Nimbus Publishing, a freelance writer, and the author of 25 Years of 22 Minutes: An Unauthorized Oral History of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. She is also the co-author, with Len Wagg, of We Rise Again: More Stories of Hope and Resilience from Nova Scotia during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Both books were published by Nimbus. She has a Master of Journalism from the University of King’s College and has worked as a sessional instructor in the undergraduate journalism program there.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Former editor of Atlantic Books Today and former associate editor, Saltscapes
  • Features writer – Broadview, The Walrus, J-Source, Chronicle Herald, Halifax Magazine, Saltscapes, Living Healthy in Atlantic Canada, Atlantic Books Today, Nova Scotia Policy Review, Yelp,  CanadianHealthcareNetwork
  • Monthly columnist – Halifax magazine, 2014-2015
  • Weekly columnist – Chronicle Herald, Saturday Arts & Life, 2012-2014
  • Weekly columnist – Halifax Community Herald, 2008-2012
AWARDS
  • Canadian Church Press Awards of Merit, 2019
  • Dave Greber Freelance Writers Magazine Award, 2018
  • George Cadogan Memorial Outstanding Columnist Award, Canadian Community Newspaper Awards, 2012

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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