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Brittni Brinn

BIOGRAPHY
Brittni Brinn (she/they) writes science fiction and horror from a tower in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. She graduated with an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Windsor and worked in community theatre for a few years before moving to the East Coast.

Her debut novel, The Patch Project, was published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing in 2018. A revised edition and the two sequels in the post-apocalyptic trilogy are currently available through Adventure Worlds Press. Their short stories appear in anthologies with Eibonvale Press, Little Ghosts Books, and JayHenge Publishing.

Their weird novella Misplaced is set to release on November 1, 2024 with Little Ghosts Books.

PUBLICATIONS

Novels

The Patch Project (2018, revised ed. 2020)

A Place That Used to Be (2020)

Where Long Shadows End (2022)

Misplaced (Forthcoming 2024)

 

Short Stories

“Field Notes From the Unknown Planet” (Mirror World Publishing, 2021)

“Safe Passage” (Eibonvale Press, 2023)

“For Your Safety and Comfort” (Little Ghosts Books, 2023)

“Gull in the Storm” (JayHenge Publishing, 2024)

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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