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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 (2018). A revised edition and the two sequels in the post-apocalyptic trilogy followed from Adventure Worlds Press, most recently collected in The Patch Project: The Complete Omnibus edition (2025). Their weird novella Misplaced (2024) is currently available from Little Ghosts Books.

Brittni’s short stories appear in anthologies with Eibonvale Press, Little Ghosts Books, and Undertaker Books. Excerpts from their ongoing novel projects were featured in WFNS’s Hal-Con zines (2024, 2025).

PUBLICATIONS

Novels

The Patch Project (2018, revised ed. 2020)

A Place That Used to Be (2020)

Where Long Shadows End (2022)

Misplaced (2024)

The Patch Project: The Complete Omnibus (2025)

 

Short Stories

“Field Notes From the Unknown Planet” (Far, Far Away: 7 Stories in 7 Realms of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Mirror World Publishing, 2021)

“Safe Passage” (At the Lighthouse, Eibonvale Press, 2023)

“For Your Safety and Comfort” (Your Flight Has Been Cancelled, Little Ghosts Books, 2023)

“Gull in the Storm” (Sunshine Superhighway: Solar Sailings, JayHenge Publishing, 2024)

“In Tandem with a Star” (Weird Windsor anthology, Foxhill Press, 2024)

“Silver Shot” (Winter Horrorland, Undertaker Books, 2024 )

“Just a Routine Supply Run” (Year Six anthology, Black Hare Press, 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, writing for 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.

Occasionally, WFNS uses the phrase “emerging and established writers/authors” to mean ‘writers and authors of all experience levels.’

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 info, strategies, and skills that suit their experience. 

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 uncertain about your experience level with respect to any particular workshop, please feel free to contact us at communications@writers.ns.ca